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Dickens 2012

April 20, 2013 by Drew

(ed. note – this is a much belated post… by nearly four whole months and at least two whole books. promise to be better about it next year and so on.) DICKENS 2012 editions: Penguin Clothbound Hardcover A Tale of Two Cities – 3.5 out of 5, 1/12-1/22 Hard Times – 4 out of 5, 4/9-4/13 Great Expectations – 4 out of 5, 7/13-7/22 Oliver Twist – 3.5 out of 5, 9/17-9/25 Bleak House – 4.5 out of 5, 11/22-12/8 […]

Categories: Features, The Ten Year Catch-Up • Tags: charles dickens, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Dickens 2012, Fiction, Literature, The Ten Year Catch-Up, Year One

Pride and Prejudice

February 8, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: The Bennet sisters are five young eligible bachelorettes. Upon the arrival of a rich young gentleman at a neighboring estate, marriage plots (not that kind) are hatched – and an obstinate antagonism between two kindred spirits slowly warms into romance. The Review: So, after all this time… all these attempts… #Austen2013 gets off to an impressive start simply in that I finished this novel. Yes, that’s right. I’ve tried – and failed – to read this novel […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Austen 2013, Classics, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Fiction, Jane Austen, Literature, Pride and Prejudice

Great Expectations

July 22, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: Young Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, has a chance encounter with an escaped convict as a young boy and thus his life of luck begins. Having fallen into several circumstances through virtue of said luck, he finds himself a young man in London with ‘great expectations’ bestowed upon him by an unknown benefactor. Thinking it to be the strange old lady Miss Havisham, he prepares to be wed to her ward – but when the true identity of […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: charles dickens, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Dickens 2012, Fiction, Great Expectations, Literature

Hard Times

April 15, 2012 by Drew

The Short Version: In a small industrial English town, the utilitarian teachings and beliefs of Mssrs. Gradgrind and Bounderby are put to the test by young Louisa Bounderby (nee Gradgrind) and her brother Tom. Coketown is not much but a sooty industrial hamlet but it’s still populated by the classic Dickensian characters one expects to see in London – and hits home with a message much harsher than one might usually be accustomed to. The Review: So in Penguin collecting “The […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: charles dickens, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Dickens 2012, Fiction, Hard Times, Literature

Wuthering Heights

August 14, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: The tragic tale of the Earnshaw, Linton, and Heathcliff families – loves unrequited and spurned, hatreds nurtured, lives destroyed… basically Jane Eyre without any likable characters. The Review: I picked up this book after all these years (another one that slipped through the 16 years of schooling…) because a girl told me that I was “a mix of Darcy and Heathcliff.” When pressed to see what she meant, I was told that it was a dealbreaker that I hadn’t […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Classics, Coralie Bickford-Smith, Emily Brontë, Fiction, Literature, Wuthering Heights

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