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AnneCecilie
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#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

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AnneCecilie
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#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

Crinoline_Laphroaig First of the month snuck up on me as well. 1d
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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“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

Cuilin Eww is right. 🤮 1d
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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“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.

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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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Quilp again with Little Nell

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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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

Cuilin I‘m not liking Quilp. 1d
AnneCecilie I love these illustrations that your posting. My edition doesn‘t have any 1d
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“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

AnnCrystal 🤩📚💝. 1d
TheBookHippie Love! 1d
Cuilin Beautiful 😻 1d
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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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

Ruthiella Claire Tomlinson‘s biography of Dickens spoiled the ending of this book for me. I guess it is pretty famous, what with the Oscar Wilde quote and all-but it annoys me too. 2d
Cuilin I never read introductions. I‘ve been burned by spoilers too often. However I‘m aware of the ending of this one. 2d
Bookwormjillk It‘s happened to me too, and I think it should be illegal. 2d
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AnneCecilie I‘ve stopped reading the introductions until I have finished the book. I once read an introduction with 50ish pages left in the book, and it still managed to spoil the ending. Then I don‘t think it‘s an introduction anymore, so not OK. 1d
CSeydel For some reason, the people who write scholarly introductions to classics always assume you‘ve already read the book. Do they not understand that there‘s a first time for everyone? I wish there was a term for an “introduction” that, say, helps put the book in context historically or literarily while still respecting the experience of the first reading. 24h
lil1inblue If I read the introduction, I read it at the end. I've been burned by spoilers one too many times. Like @cseydal said, they always seem to assume you've read the book. 23h
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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

TheBookHippie I have some too I pick them up when I thrift! I love them! 4d
AnnCrystal 🤩💝. 4d
Cuilin Yes!!! I always love when you show these. So beautiful. 🤎 3d
Texreader @TheBookHippie oh!! ♥️♥️ In Texas I simply cannot find them. I was able to buy loads of pieces when I went to antique shops around DC when I worked there years ago. My grandmother collected them when she lived in Marfa Tx so I‘m not sure why I can‘t find them here. 3d
GingerAntics I would be so afraid to eat on them. I‘d put them on the wall or something. Then again, I grew up in a house with a bunch of decorate plates on the wall, so maybe I‘m weird. 3d
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The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens
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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

Ruthiella This is not one of my favorite Dickens, but Dick Swiveler is one of my characters. 👍 5d
Texreader @Ruthiella Oh good to know! When he creates despicable characters I always cringe when there‘s a chapter with them in it. 5d
Cuilin I think the grandson is Fred. Kip is a friend/worker/neighbor. @Ruthiella I‘m getting the feeling that Dick is more swiveled than Swiveler? 4d
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