Status Updates From Mutiny on the Bounty (The B...

I'm within 50 pages of the end of this book, and the trial is taking place. It's thrilling, and it feels immersive and exciting. The author takes the very issue of human justice into the narrative, and it's wonderful.

The pages won't add up because I'm reading the trilogy. But today's reading has to do with the wreck of the Pandora and the crew's desperate sailing in a launch to safety. I found myself thinking- the protagonist's plight is all of ours- we are wanderers under a death sentence, hoping to survive long enough to get to our own scaffold. It's a haunting predicament.