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An afternoon spent with Pip and company. I'm so glad I decided to revisit this one.

Yes! I‘ve finally read this chunkster! I don‘t know why I haven‘t read it until now, but overall, I enjoyed it. It dragged in some places and probably didn‘t need to be so long, but a good story nonetheless.

#bookspinbingo - free space
#20in4
#jumpstart2023
#pop23 - book I should‘ve read in high school

#LitsyHumor

Today‘s Bizarro comic was literary and it also made me chuckle. 😂

Waiting on #HurricaneIan
The new model has it going right over our town. 🌀

So, starting this classic that I‘ve been meaning to get to! It‘s my #doublespin from August.

#bookspinbingo
@TheAromaofBooks

#expectations #indeliblemoments @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

First day of annual leave 🥳

Finally reading this classic

Doing laundry reading this beauty

Revisited this one from childhood. Brought back memories. Hard to continue reading in some parts.

Started this amazing book 📚 Have you read it?

#19thcentury #falltreasures @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Basically a prodigal son story that‘s 300 pages too long. There were such a ridiculous number of coincidences that I was literally guffawing out loud as each thread of the story tied up neatly in a bow - all lessons learned, all good people rewarded, and all villains either killed off or transformed by their misdeeds into a good person. I think Dickens is just not for me. He does get credit for Miss Havisham though. She‘s one creepy, crazy gal.

I cannot believe that I am reading this for the first time at 50. What a wonderful story this was. Absolutely loved it!

Haven't read Dickens after childhood. Have only a faded memory of this book. SO FINALLY got around to reading Dickens!! It was a good read despite the draggy bits here and there. On the whole, loved the plot. The journey of Pip and the character development is beautifully written! #deep

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Talk about reading with a view!

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and #broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.” #QuotsyApr21

Totally how I feel today. It's 10 C and sunny out, and I heard Shaina Twain on the radio and I am just high up on sugar and life 💕

Al principio es una lectura pesada y que no te lleva a ningún lugar, o eso parece, tienes que pasar un poco más de la mitad del libro para engancharte, que historia! El final no me gusto, creo que el protagonista merecía más, pero al final es Dickens. Me encanto el giro y cómo uso cada detalle, el final inesperado y muy rápido, apresurado para mi gusto. Definitivamente un clásico que tienes que poner en tu lista!

I love this sentence, although it seems cruel. I think it shows how heartbreak can transform a person as no one is born this cruel. Miss Havisham got her heart broken by her fiancee, and she couldn't cope with it. I'm not saying that what she is doing to pip and Estella is right, but I feel like we should maybe cut her some slack?

I missed Mr Dickens birthday last Sunday - so celebrating with a few favourite passages and an indulgent clotted cream shortbread! Happy Birthday , sir!

I found Great Expectations a real slog, and struggled to get through to the end. I loved David Copperfield enough that I‘m not dissuaded from ever trying Dickens again, but Great Expectations and I are done. I certainly wouldn‘t recommend it to a first-timer! My summary and full review here: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/great-expectations-charles-dickens/

I cherish these winter nights. If I had it my way, it would always be dark by 6:00 pm and the snow would never stop falling. I have a pot of homemade beef stew bubbling on the stove, a pot of hot coffee close behind and now I just need the perfect book to make my night complete. I do believe it's time for a dinner date with my Mr. Dickens. Though Emerson whispers faintly in my ear. Perhaps I'll have to invite them both. I adore their company🕯️📖

Shoot, I forgot to continue posting the #12coloursofdecember. Here is the only silver book that I own.

#WinterGames2020 #wintergames #MerryReaders
@Clwojick, +10 +1 points

I gave it a try, and I pushed myself to finish it, but in the end, I just wasn't impressed. I was bored and just ready for it to be over.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

A long-overdue reread. Tighter in construction than the average Dickens, more sombre in tone than usual but still a rollicking good read, from the terrifying opening scene in the graveyard on.

#3books I hated

Loathe would actually be a better word. I loathe these books. It may be an #unpopularopinion, but I can‘t stand any of Hemingway or Dickens. I may have picked these 3 in particular because they all cue freshman year high school English class flashbacks. 😆

When your birthday includes new #folios! Thank you @emilyhaldi and @Mdargusch #foliofreaks

The only great thing about this was imagining Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham and Pip from South Park as Pip. My first and probably only Dickens novel. I will stick with Austen and the Brontes from now one.
2.5/5 Stars.

Doing homework when suddenly... Foot Cuddles! P.S. her snoring is very distracting.

So. Freaking. Good.
Can't even say anything else about it.
(I apparently don't treat my pretty books right while I'm reading them cuz this poor cover. 🤭😕)

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I found this book a bit hard to get into at first, but I was really interested in the story by the end. I remember watching the movie with Josh Hartnett years ago, but it seems like they changed a lot for that adaptation.

"There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one."

"Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."

"You may get cheated, robbed and murdered in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere who'll do that for you."

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

... You must be a common scholar afore you can be an oncommon one, I should hope!

If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked.

Each day at 3pm EST, I‘m reading two chapters of this live on E. Shaver‘s Instagram. It‘s a good time because I‘ve never read it before and Dickens is so funny.

A bit verbose with some very old English, but an enjoyable read!

Another great cover from the depths of my library bookshelves. 1973 edition. $3.50

So glad I picked this dusty old paperback (inherited from the in-laws) off my bookshelf and finally read it. This one reminded me of why I love the classics so much! Dickens is SO good at showing us the follies of humanity, while ultimately leaving us happier and wiser. I was only sad to see that humans haven‘t changed much in all these years, which means we probably never will....

I enjoyed listening to this! #ReadingClassicsIn2020

Currently reading!

1. Miss Haversham, get over yourself!
2. Bean
3. Liver
4. Expensive dress that didn‘t fit
5. Cat snuggles, mindless TV, wine
#randosurvey

I thought this was very fitting today. I 😍🌷