I started reading a book called the return of the native It is an interesting book so far. Thomas Hardy has an insanely descriptive way of writing and it is sometimes, depending on my mood, hard to keep up with but all in all it is intriguing and beautiful in its own right.

"The face of the heath by its mere complexion added half an hour to evening; it could in like manner retard the dawn, sadden noon, anticipate the frowning of storms scarcely generated, and intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight to a cause of shaking dread."