Welcome to Litsy!

Oh, my gosh! How am I JUST now learning about this?!? I am so in for Chuzzlewit in September! The weird thing is that I have two other groups (one GR, one FB) who are doing that book at that time, as well. Great minds think (and often read) alike! 😁
#WhattheDickens

So, this week I discovered that Charles Dickens called his son Plorn. PLORN. Short for a babyhood nickname of “the Plornishghenter” which was shortened to “Plornish” and then PLORN. I can‘t. 🤣🤣 This will live rent-free in my head forever.

Also: I‘m guessing the characters Mr. & Mrs. Plornish in Little Dorrit may be named after good ol‘ Plorn, who was 3 years old when Dickens started publishing the book in serial form. #WhattheDickens indeed. 😂

I‘ve wanted to read this novel ever since I saw the series a few years ago when it came out (I looked it up & the series was out 2008, so more than a few years)

Arthur Clennam has just returned to the UK after decades abroad. On his first night back, he visits his mother. With his mother, he find a young woman sewing. This is Little Dorrit who lives in the debt prison with her father and siblings.

A book that looks at bureaucracy and how hard

Another perfect description by the master

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

Dickens‘s descriptions of people are the very best. But my favorite thing about Dickens has always been his descriptions of buildings, like this one.

I looked up “scrofulously,” and couldn‘t find a meaning for it, but even without a meaning it is so descriptive!

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

When I told a friend I was reading this, she said, “What, voluntarily?!” 🤣 I LOVED Dickens in college and grad school, and in many ways I still do, but here I was really feeling the “paid by the word” vibe. Several of the intersecting plots could have been lifted right out and I wouldn‘t have minded at all!

Little Dorrit has all the classic hallmarks of a Dickens novel: a sweet, industrious heroine and her imprudent, foolish, silly family; ⤵️

I read this in January so it was about time I posted a review.

A look at what will happen in a society where only the facts matter.

I was hoping Sissy Jupe would have played a bigger part in the story since she was the only one standing up against this.

#WhatTheDickens

Eight books read in July while still making my way through chunksters Kristin Lavransdatter (#KLBR) and Little Dorrit (#whattheDickens). Stats:

1 book finished for last month‘s #foodandlit #Greenland
3 books for #foodandlit #Peru
1 book for #authoramonth (Virginia Wolff)
2 books for #campLitsy, including the tagged book, best book of the year so far

Proving that humans never ever change

#whattheDickens @Cuilin

#BookReport

I finished The Whalebone Theatre, Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and on audio The Flower Farm

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I‘ve started the second book in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, Wife #KLBR #DoorstopperKristin