Status Updates From At The Back of the North Wind

“Our Selves are like some little children who will be happy enough so long as they are left to their own games, but when we begin to interfere with them, and make them presents of too nice playthings, or too many sweet things, they begin at once to fret and spoil.”

“To obey is to understand.”

“Poverty will not make a man worthless. He may be worth a great deal more when he is poor than when he was rich… dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value.”

“And with a good fire and tea and bread and butter things cannot said to be miserable.”

“To make others comfortable is the only way to get right comfortable ourselves.”

“They thought he was dead but I knew he had gone to the back of The North Wind.” 😭😭

"How kind you are, North Wind!"

"I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it."

I'm starting to get worried.

The book has had some interesting moments. But seriously, there is NO plot. I can't believe this book is longer than maybe 5 hours, and yet, I just reached halfway, and have no idea what reason it needs to be going on for. The theme is obvious. No plotlines.

Idk man, not the greatest ride so far. I can dig theme work, but this book feels like a short story idea stretched to the maximum.

Have to go back in time for this one.

Technically, i'm in the year 1902 for the Great Fantasy Reading Challenge, but I decided there were a lot of books I missed from before. Plus, I have some content I want to make on these authors. This is the first of those.

So far, it's a much more philosophical book than a plot heavy one. If it continues at this pace, I probably won't love it. But hey, i'll give it some time.

“If you keep ahold you will know who I am all the time. Even when you look at me and cannot see me the least like North Wind.”

“The most wonderful thing in the world is how people come to understand anything.”

“For it is not fine things that make home a nice place but your mother and father.”