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I listened to 3 versions of the audiobook and chose this one. It is also on sale for two more days for slightly more than the one in my previous post. #whattheDickens @Cuilin

It‘s not very expensive to begin with but if you want a deal, this version of the audiobook is on sale for two more days.

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

Finally posting my November stats

Eight books read last month, four were chunksters: two with 500+ pages and two with 400+ pages! Litsy challenges:

Curiosity Shop for #whattheDickens
Democracy for #authoramonth
Happy Isles for #Samoa and the remaining 5 for #Algeria for #foodandlit

I loved this book

I loved that the “good” people were so good that you loved them and the “bad” people were so bad that you hated them. I love a good villain to hate, and this delivered on that, looking at you Mr Quilp

And I didn‘t see that ending coming

#WhatTheDickens

#BookReport

I finished The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
I read The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts
Continue the tagged on audio

Hopefully read Helm

I also want to start the advent calendar book, The Snow Sister, and God Jul (Merry Christmas) about Norwegian Christmas traditions

“The pony made a moment's pause; but as if it occurred to him that to stop when he was required might be to establish an inconvenient and dangerous precedent, he immediately started off again, rattled at a fast trot to the street-corner, wheeled round, came back, and then stopped of his own accord.”

😂😂 Over the course of this book, Whisker the pony has become one of my favorite characters. #WhattheDickens

This one falls somewhere in the middle of the Dickens books I‘ve read. I didn‘t love it, but I found plenty to enjoy as I listened. Most of the main characters are very much good or evil, but throughout the book there are many interesting characters.

#WhatTheDickens #audiobook

This is a difficult book to love, but I do. Quilp is among the very worst of villains in Dickens‘ novels, which says a lot because there are so many wicked people in his novels. One of the main characters, Little Nell, almost 14, must lead her grandfather with dementia out of London and into the wide world. She learns in the harshest of ways his horrible dark secret, which persists along with his dementia. The most heartbreaking scene I‘ve read ⬇️

#BookReport

I‘ve finished Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow earlier today
I just finished the last page of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

#WeeklyForecast

Continue The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts

Next up is The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

“…the lady carried upon her upper lip certain reddish demonstrations, which, if the imagination had been assisted by her attire, might have been mistaken for a beard. These were, however, in all probability, nothing more than eyelashes in a wrong place, as the eyes of Miss Brass were quite free from any such natural impertinencies.”

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#WhattheDickens