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@jenlovesjt47 - I'm on season 3, episode 3. Had to share a rough haiku because the change in dynamic between these two is hilarious! 🤣

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Tonight‘s reading snack, a Scandinavian treat!

Daughter made us skillingsboller so I made hot chocolate (despite our 100-degree heat) in my Norwegian moose mug, my Norwegian Maya fork, on our Ikea snack plate. Daughter added her Norwegian moose oven mitt into the photo.

So, this week I discovered that Charles Dickens called his son Plorn. PLORN. Short for a babyhood nickname of “the Plornishghenter” which was shortened to “Plornish” and then PLORN. I can‘t. 🤣🤣 This will live rent-free in my head forever.

Also: I‘m guessing the characters Mr. & Mrs. Plornish in Little Dorrit may be named after good ol‘ Plorn, who was 3 years old when Dickens started publishing the book in serial form. #WhattheDickens indeed. 😂

I‘ve wanted to read this novel ever since I saw the series a few years ago when it came out (I looked it up & the series was out 2008, so more than a few years)

Arthur Clennam has just returned to the UK after decades abroad. On his first night back, he visits his mother. With his mother, he find a young woman sewing. This is Little Dorrit who lives in the debt prison with her father and siblings.

A book that looks at bureaucracy and how hard

Another perfect description by the master

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

Dickens‘s descriptions of people are the very best. But my favorite thing about Dickens has always been his descriptions of buildings, like this one.

I looked up “scrofulously,” and couldn‘t find a meaning for it, but even without a meaning it is so descriptive!

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

When I told a friend I was reading this, she said, “What, voluntarily?!” 🤣 I LOVED Dickens in college and grad school, and in many ways I still do, but here I was really feeling the “paid by the word” vibe. Several of the intersecting plots could have been lifted right out and I wouldn‘t have minded at all!

Little Dorrit has all the classic hallmarks of a Dickens novel: a sweet, industrious heroine and her imprudent, foolish, silly family; ⤵️

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her.
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About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet‘s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
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I read this in January so it was about time I posted a review.

A look at what will happen in a society where only the facts matter.

I was hoping Sissy Jupe would have played a bigger part in the story since she was the only one standing up against this.

#WhatTheDickens