Evening all. I'm still ironing out my schedule, so this post is a little later than I'd have liked it to be (I'm typing it up just before 8pm local time), but welcome to the first actual review post of The Silvercrow! It's been a somewhat busy couple of weeks and I haven't had much time to push further in Zen, but I can promise I have enough chapters finished to have a backlog of reviews anyway.
Enough chatter, though - let's get to the review.
This is your scheduled Silvercrow post, but unfortunately, this is not your scheduled Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance review. Instead, this is a quick setting of expectations before I properly begin a regular posting cycle, to explain my personal reading habits and what you can expect from this blog.
I'm not absolutely sure what length each of these posts will take, and to be honest I don't think I would much benefit from fixing a length on them. I'll likely at least try to write a couple hundred words per post, but it will only go that long if I'm low for time. I have tend more towards waxing eloquent than brief, and this will probably show in a lot of chapters that get their hooks into my mind.
The key operator there is "into my mind." My reading experience is a one-way gate from the book into my mind; beyond turning the pages and, you know, looking at them, I tend not to do anything to the book. I don't write notes in them, in the margins or otherwise, and I most definitely don't dog-ear favourite pages. While Douglas Adams did write in the foreword to my edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that he didn't trust someone for whom their copy of the book wasn't worn to the metaphorical seams with love, I can't bring myself to let the book suffer, or bear physical marks of my thoughts.
Particularly since those marks are permanent. Good luck getting the ink off the page. I'd much rather broadcast my thoughts to the void of the Internet, where I can revise them before committing them to the (web)page, thank you very much.
All that to say - as much as I'd enjoy it, especially as a reader, you won't see any pictures of margin notes from this blog. Instead, you'll get my opinions, first-glance or reasoned, classical or romantic (stay tuned for Zen to understand that!), without the filter of the physical medium. Perhaps this loses something; perhaps it gains something. That remains to be seen.
My schedule still isn't set, but I'm looking at a Tuesday-Thursday post schedule, maybe with a post on the weekend when I'm feeling it. So with that said, keep an eye out (for real this time!) for my review of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance's first chapter this coming Tuesday.
As always, you can find me on Tumblr at verix-silvercrow. And in the meantime, have an excellent day, night or otherwise, and keep on abiding.
Verix
Good evening to everybody!
I'm typing this up very quickly before I head to bed, on a blog whose current visual appearance can be described as 'rudimentary' at best. That said, I'm yelling this first post into the void to let you all know that I'm giving this blogging thing a proper try, about fifteen years too late. In an attempt to get myself back into reading, I'm going to be blogging my chapter-by-chapter review of different books that I am currently reading or re-reading (or re-re-reading, sometimes, as we all do.)
I'm currently a few chapters deep into several books; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig is currently chief among them. While I can't promise what my posting schedule will look like, I will at least try to get a post up every few days, and I'll try to have a backlog of chapters to review so that I don't have to rush through a chapter late at night, like I'm writing this post.
Anyhow! The plan is set; I'm going to post my first-read review of Zen tomorrow, if all goes well. In the meantime, if you're somehow reading this from somewhere other than my Tumblr, you can find me there at verix-silvercrow.
In the meantime, have an excellent day, night or otherwise, and keep on abiding.
Verix
Evening all. I'm still ironing out my schedule, so this post is a little later than I'd have liked it to be (I'm typing it up ju...
