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#WhatTheDickens

I‘m on chapter 3. This is longer than I thought it to be. Who‘s joining in on this one? I really enjoyed Chuzzlewit!! Anyone else? Thoughts?

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I pulled this off my shelf tonight to plan my #whattheDickens reading & discovered a bookmark from Hay on Wye—where I purchased this copy.😍 It was helpfully tucked in between Curiosity Shop and Child‘s History, so I only had to flip back a few pages to determine how many chapters are in Curiosity Shop. However, the last chapter is helpfully titled “Chapter the Last,” meaning I had to flip back a few more pages to find an actual numbered chapter🤪

I kept to a chapter a day until last weekend and then I just had to finish it. But if I‘m counting correctly we should be finishing about now. I fell in love with Tom Pinch and his sister, and laughed with Mark, and despised Pecksniff. The ending was satisfying, except for poor Tom. Be sure to read the end note Dickens insisted be included in every edition - knowing how much of his $ was made in the US made me 🙄 #whatthedickens

Here‘s my Dickens shelf. L to R: Little Dorrit, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times, Dombey & Son, Bleak House, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Tale of two Cities. My Martin Chuzzlewitt doesn‘t match either of these sets, and his Christmas books are on another shelf. Plus I have most of his novels on my Kobo. But I love these old boxed editions. @Texreader #whatthedickens

Daughter went to a used bookstore near her work today and found more outstanding editions for my Dickens collection. #whattheDickens @Cuilin

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“England expects that every man will do his duty” Lord Nelson‘s signal at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805
Cherry just wants a proposal. 😆

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Found this illustration of the funniest scene in the book. #whattheDickens

“[S]o neatly brought their own boat in the gentlest collision with the bark of Mr Sparkler, as to tip that gentleman over like a larger species of ninepin, and cause him to exhibit the soles of his shoes to the object of his dearest wishes: while the nobler portions of his anatomy struggled at the bottom of his boat in the arms of one of his men.”

I bought this gorgeous set of books last weekend (smelling of old books). The new owner of the shop hopes to get more of these editions from a man who is hoping his books go to a good home. I think these may replace my Oxford editions, which daughter has said she‘ll take.

Sadly I haven‘t been able to fit in the tagged book for #whattheDickens. Too many other book challenges. But I‘m looking forward to next month‘s book, The Old Curiosity Shop.