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Daisey
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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I‘ve been listening to a lot of other things lately and realized this weekend that I really should try to wrap up this audiobook before I start The Last of the Mohicans. I listened this afternoon as I enjoyed the beautiful weather and passed the halfway mark. Spending several hours with the story this weekend also helped me become more invested in some of the characters than when I listen to shorter sections at a time.

#WhatTheDickens #audiobook

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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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I‘m tagging my favorite book this month. It‘s one of the two chunksters (500 & 600+ pages) I read this month. I read 3 books by Roxane Gay for #authoramonth, 4 for #Nepal #foodandlit, and 1 for #whattheDickens.

Catsandbooks 👏🏼💖 1w
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Readerann
Nicholas Nickelby | Charles Dickens
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Pickpick

Another chunkster from the #1001books list. ✅. Whenever I read Dickens, it seems my opinion of whoever else I‘m reading at the same time (I never have just ONE book going 😱) is immediately lowered. Also, my command of the English language is dismal. 😕

Texreader A Great Book!! And I agree!! 1w
sarahbarnes Good work! 1w
Readerann @Texreader I see you watched the show and like the book better! Good to know. I think long novels often don‘t translate to the screen very well. 1w
Readerann @sarahbarnes Thanks! It‘s always exciting to turn page 700-something and be done at last! 😁 1w
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AllDebooks
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#BookSpinBingo March

My March list is made up of 9 #buddyreads
The above plus the tagged, a Leigh Bardugo book, Pride and Prejudice, Entitled and Brave hearted.
Plus my #Roll100 reads. https://litsy.com/p/eUlQc1FYM0k5

The rest will be selected from my tbr/library/arc pile.

@TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2w
PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ 1w
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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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Swinging from the deplorable to the humorous to humble and kind, this book has it all. Nicholas, a sweet soul with a temper, makes enemies of his wealthy uncle and a despicable teacher in his first job as his assistant. Saving a mistreated worker in the teacher‘s household, Smike, they join an acting troupe—until they must rush back to London to save Nicholas‘s sister from the machinations of that uncle. There he ⬇️

Texreader lands a job with the most noble businessmen, and slowly he tries to right wrongs inflicted on Smike and many others. Dickens‘ sympathy for Smike, with a mental disability, is astounding for his time. I adored this book. Sometimes I wanted to bail because of the descriptions of the wicked treatment of small boys, but I‘m glad I stuck it out. Dickens had a huge heart, and this book delves deeply into it. Highly recommended. #whattheDickens 2w
AvidReader25 I just finished Hard Times this year, and I felt the same. Your heart breaks for the mistreated characters, but Dickens was definitely trying to shine a light on the injustices that were happening. 2w
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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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The movie was uneven. Stellar cast but the acting was hit or miss. Some sets were exactly as we‘d pictured from the book like the Dotheboy school, and some sets like flimsy pasteboard. Sometimes the dialog was true to the story to the word and sometimes completely made up. How could it be otherwise to condense a 34-hour book into a 2-hour movie? I‘m very glad I watched it but, as expected, the book was countless times better. #whattheDickens

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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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Starting this movie tonight! #whattheDickens @Cuilin

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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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Just finished. I LOVED this book—it‘s right up there with A Christmas Carol. Even though we have through March to read it for #whattheDickens I hurried it up so I can watch the movie before it goes off Prime. What a satisfying read! Review to come. @Cuilin

Cuilin I‘m enjoying the narrator on this one. 2w
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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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Reminiscent of “Janet! Donkeys!” from David Copperfield, here we have the Nickleby‘s neighbor hissing like a cat! Love it!

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

kspenmoll 🙀🐈‍⬛ 3w
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Texreader
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens
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Dickens eviscerates those who write plays from the unfinished works of real authors. I‘m thinking this was pretty close to Dickens‘ heart.

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

Bookwomble I wonder what he'd make of the many continuations of Edwin Drood 🤔 (Autocorrect initially changed Drood to Droid, and I can imagine a Star Wars continuation being done! 🤖) 3w
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