“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." There are so many thought-provoking lines in this book. I don‘t know why it took me so long to read it. But a great way to start 2018 by reading this one first.

Felt like falling asleep in the sun and having a lovely, fleeting dream.

Tale of Two Cities is my introduction to reading via #serialreader. I find the you-have-completed-another-issue pop ups more entertaining and encouraging than I could have imagined.

From the opening paragraphs I can already tell this is going to be a memorable book: "...on this balcony where he now squatted beside a fire of telephone directories, eating the roast hindquarters of the Alsatian before setting off to his lecture at the medical school."

"I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."

"Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will."

"When one has lost everything...one fights for that last remnant with desparate courage, with fierce resolution."