#WeeklyForecast
Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue the buddy reads; Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
Continue A Thousand Feasts
Continue All the Sinners Bleed on audio
The Booker winner is announced tomorrow evening, and I want to get a start on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny
I also want to start The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR
#BookReport
I finished Mother Mary Comes to Me
I continued my yearlong reads on the right & has started catching up on Year of Wonder
I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio
I continued A Thousand Feasts
I completely forgot that last Saturday was the beginning of a new month & new buddy reads, but I‘ve now started Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow & The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
I‘m also reading Tell Me Everything
“Little Nell stood timidly by, with her eyes raised to the countenance of Mr Quilp as he read the letter, plainly showing by her looks that while she entertained some fear and distrust of the little man, she was much inclined to laugh at his uncouth appearance and grotesque attitude. And yet there was visible on the part of the child a painful anxiety for his reply.”
Then he offers to make her Mrs Quilp number two! Eww!
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
“On the Surrey side of the river was a small rat-infested dreary yard called 'Quilp's Wharf,' in which were a little wooden counting-house burrowing all awry in the dust as if it had fallen from the clouds and ploughed into the ground; a few fragments of rusty anchors; several large iron rings; some piles of rotten wood; and two or three heaps of old sheet copper, crumpled, cracked, and battered.”
The boy on his head is, I believe, Tom Scott.
Meet Daniel Quilp (far left):
“The creature appeared quite horrible with his monstrous head and little body, as he rubbed his hands slowly round, and round, and round again—with something fantastic even in his manner of performing this slight action—and, dropping his shaggy brows and cocking his chin in the air, glanced upward with a stealthy look of exultation that an imp might have copied and appropriated to himself.”
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
“There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams.”
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
In what universe is it ok to reveal the ending of the book in the introduction to the book? In the first paragraph of the introduction to the book? 🤬
I‘m on chapter 11 and decided to go back and read the introduction. I‘m mad as heck.
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
I‘m going to have to post photos periodically of my grandmother‘s Old Curiosity Shop dishes. Here it is! The Old Curiosity Shop!
These dishes are among my most precious possessions. I only use them once a year for Christmas.
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
Dickens always names his characters appropriately. We meet Mr. Swiveller, compatriot of the grandfather‘s grandson Kip, both of whom seem to be up to no good.
I‘m looking forward to Chapter 3, where we will meet a fellow named Daniel Quilp. That‘s an ambiguous last name, so it will be interesting to see what sort of character he is.
Oh I do love Dickens.
#whattheDickens @Cuilin
