WhatTheDickens

Finally starting David Copperfield for #WhatTheDickens (since I finished Demon Copperhead a couple days ago)—and the Preface immediately reminded me of just how much I love Dickens!! Also, I have discovered that I used a purple pen for my underlines and notes when I read this in grad school 😂

Cuilin, Texreader

Cuilin Yay!! I couldn‘t sleep last night and found myself at 3am reading Dickens. 💜 17h

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Cuilin

Charles Dickens: The Greatest Novels : Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens

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The Holmes was perfect timing!! #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

And it‘s also like the universe knew I was reading Dickens again and sent two more my way. #WhatTheDickens

@dabbe @Texreader

dabbe #karma 💙🩵💙 4d

Ruthiella I love bookish serendipity like that. 😃 4d

Texreader Oooh two I don‘t have 4d

Lcsmcat Tag me when you‘re reading Barnaby Rudge if you want company. It‘s on my list and I‘d love to have someone to discuss it with. 4d

Cuilin @Lcsmcat will do. 3d

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Texreader

The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens

My second weekend in a row at HPB ended in a massive book haul… so here goes:

Part 2 of 2. I had to get the tagged book having stayed in Bath at a hotel across from the tavern where he allegedly wrote them

And I‘m getting ready for Christmas. Besides A Christmas Carol, which I always read at Christmas, there are many many Dickens Christmas stories I‘d never heard of in this massive book. It was the expensive one, but I felt worth $9.99.

Texreader #whattheDickens @Cuilin 6d

dabbe Can you snapshot what the other stories are in THE CHRISTMAS CAROL? I'd love to read them! 🤩🤗😘 6d

Cuilin @dabbe I‘m interested in that too. I‘ve read a few “Christmas” stories so far nothing I mean nothing competes with A Christmas Carol. 5d

Texreader @dabbe @Cuilin I‘ll be happy to do that. And I agree morning beats A Christmas Carol 5d

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Texreader

The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens

My second weekend in a row at HPB ended in a massive book haul… so here goes:

Here‘s where my willpower broke down. I do love Dickens, and the books were really cheap so this is part 1 of 2. Looking forward to keeping #whattheDickens alive for awhile @Cuilin

Awk_Word_Smith "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known" 6d

Cuilin I got a Dickens haul this week too!! I‘ll post it later. I definitely want to keep #WhatTheDickens going. The #RandomClassics is reading Nicolas Nickelby in January so I thought we should join forces with them and then pick out what other Dickens we want to read in 2025!!!! 5d

Texreader @Cuilin Sounds like a plan!! 😃 5d

Texreader @Awk_Word_Smith Very nice! I read that one in high school. I only remembered the first line, of course. 5d

Awk_Word_Smith @Texreader Dickens not only wrote one of the best opening stanzas of a novel in A Tale of Two Cities, but arguably the best closing stanza of any book ever contrived. IMO 😆 5d

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Texreader

David Copperfield | Dickens Charles

This scene just broke my heart. Poor innocent gullible David Copperfield

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BarbaraBB Oh I remember this scene! 1w

Cuilin Davy is the sweetest, how could he do that to him?? Ugh 1w

Texreader @Cuilin @BarbaraBB I‘d previously read part of the book before and I find it harder to read now. At least up to the point I read it before, I know he just keeps getting taken advantage of, and that just shouldn‘t happen to wee ones. It almost physically hurts me for him to go through these things because he is the sweetest. I really hope things eventually turn for the better for him. And I‘ve seen the movie! But terrible memory. 7d

BarbaraBB It‘ll be quite the ride, this book 🤍 7d

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