by The Adaptation Stationmaster “‘Well, well!’ said my aunt. ‘I only ask. I don’t depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?'” ~David Copperfield Reading Our Mutual Friend, theContinue reading "Formed for One Another? Successful and Unsuccessful Dickensian Loves"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 6 (Installment 6) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and The beginning of our discussion of Final Thoughts & Theories… By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, we began this journeyContinue reading "The Mystery of Edwin Drood: A Final Wrap-Up"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 5 (Installment 5) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach “At about this time, a stranger appeared in Cloisterham…” Friends, we had aContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Five of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 4 (Installment 4) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, what a week! And is there a better chapter opening than “ChristmasContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Four of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 3 (Installment 3) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, as Chris writes, the plot thickens! What was Jasper up to duringContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Three of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
By Rach During a recent long wait that Boze and I spent at the local Social Security Administration office to get my post-wedding name change official, I read the short 1880 book on Charles Dickens and Rochester by Robert Langton. The book is available free on Google Books & attached as a PDF below: However,Continue reading "Picturing the Cloisterham of Edwin Drood…"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 2 (Installment 2) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, things are heating up between Neville and Edwin, and Jasper seems toContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week Two of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
Wherein your co-hosts of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club 2022-24 (#DickensClub) wrap up Week 1 (Installment 1) of our twenty-fifth read, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; with a chapter summary and discussion wrap-up. By the members of the #DickensClub, edited/compiled by Rach Friends, what a cracking opening! I don’t know about you, but I keepContinue reading "Dickens Club: Wrapping up Week One of The Mystery of Edwin Drood"| All the (Dickensian) Year Round
*** SPOILER ALERT *** Many people would now in fact regard it as the greatest of his works . . . Dickens was writing ahead of his time. (169) It is the strangest of Dickens’s novels, but in m…| All the (Dickensian) Year Round