Watership Down

Ok, so here's a book worthy of its hype. This is a very good story which is surprising given that it is about a bunch of rabbits. I mean they are just rabbits who behave like rabbits. Obviously Adams gave them coherent thoughts and motivations, but they don't come across as humans in rabbit form which is often a danger of these sorts of things.

Can I just say that I love road trips, it's one of the few places in my life where I get to really sit and dig into a book. Life is full of disruptions and distractions - which is great, but it disrupts good reading time. I've been doing well keeping the reading going but I've been straying from the journalling, which I will work on.

I've been thinking more about Anna Karenina. Originally a tragedy was defined by the fall of a person of high status in the narrative. By that definition Anna Karenina is a tragedy, and even a good one. Anna's fall, while predictable, affects everyone around her in many ways, some of which are pretty subtle. It's like a stone falling though a web and that's what is interesting about it. Anna is less interesting for her sake to me; it is more interesting to me how her fall from grace has a rippling effect outward.