It's been awhile since I've updated you all on my reading. I just finished a pretty grim book about a week ago. It's about a shipwreck that you have probably never heard of...a whale ship called the Essex that was taken down by an actual sperm whale attack in the early 1800's. The book is called In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick, and it's very well written. He wrote another book that I have read, Mayflower (bet you can't figure out what that's about), and he just seems to have a flair for being quite factual and up front about both the good and the bad moments of those periods.
Anyway, back to the ship...this wreck was actually the most talked of wreck until Titanic sank (consequently, I'm currently reading Titanic's Last Secrets by Brad Matsen..obviously I'm all about disaster and history at the moment). The survivors of Essex even had to resort to cannibalism and those that survived were finally rescued around 90 days after they first wrecked. Pretty fucked up, right? True story.
It all makes me wonder what I would be willing to do to survive. Would I fight to the finish, or just give up? Hopefully I will never encounter any real survival situation that extreme, but it's something to think about.
Song of the day: "So Happy I Could Die" Lady GaGa (teehee, why the hell not?)
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