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Marley was dead.

A Christmas Carol by Jim Dale

December 18, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

If you’re like me and you’ve listened to a lot of audiobooks, you might transpose your sense and understanding of one narrator associated with a particular author onto other authors when that narrator shows up later. So maybe John Lee’s presence on an audio addition of Lord Jim makes it feel like Jo Nesbo has just written that novel. Or maybe Simon Vance reading a contemporary British novel makes you feel like it’s written by Patrick O’Brien, Anne Rice, or Naomi Novik. And of course Frank […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Jim Dale

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:703 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Jim Dale ·
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Bad blood carries. Bad blood comes out.

October 7, 2018 by Dusty Highway Leave a Comment

CBR10Bingo: The Book Was Better? This was another square I struggled to fill, until a flash of inspiration hit me. I remembered that I had bought Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden on a whim several months ago but never actually watched it, giving me the perfect excuse to buy and read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and then finally watch the film. Done and done.  Sue was born in a cramped house of thieves and orphaned when her mother was hanged for murder. Mrs. Sucksby has raised […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, Charles Dickens, costume drama, crime, Fingersmith, LGBT fiction, Sarah Waters, Suspense

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:56 · Genres: Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, Charles Dickens, costume drama, crime, Fingersmith, LGBT fiction, Sarah Waters, Suspense ·
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.

May 17, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

We are coming to the end of the school year. It might not seem that way because it’s still April, but the last day of school is June 15. Graduation is June 5th, Senior exam week is the previous week, and because Seniors can be exempt from exams, their last day is May 25. AND! because we’re about to enter into the weeks of AP tests and state-wide tests (NONE of which I have to prepare for this year–mine were back in January) I have […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:148 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charles Dickens, David Copperfield ·
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Charleth Dickenth thtarring Daffy Duck

February 24, 2018 by Dusty Highway 2 Comments

I was really looking forward to reading Hard Times when I pulled it off the shelf. I’m a Dickens fan. A Tale of Two Cities is one of my all-time favorites, and Bleak House is right up there, too. And I have to say this was the most Dickensian novel that Dickens ever Dickensed. Unfortunately, that’s not a good thing. It lacked a lot of my favorite things about Dickens. There wasn’t much of a mystery. There weren’t many great lines. And there weren’t any […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBRX #CBR10 #CannonballReadX #CannonballRead10, Charles Dickens, classics, Fiction, Hard Times

Dusty Highway's CBR10 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBRX #CBR10 #CannonballReadX #CannonballRead10, Charles Dickens, classics, Fiction, Hard Times ·
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Great expectations: why did this have to be my first cannonball

January 20, 2017 by Krieger_clone 10 Comments

So my first ever Cannonball review and boy I wish it didn’t have to be this book. One of the things I want to achieve with my cannonball is to reawaken my love of reading. As a teenager through to my early years at college I loved reading but somewhere along the way, like an old friend, I lost touch with my passion for books. Don’t get me wrong I still read a couple of books a year usually on holiday but that side of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Charles Dickens, classic literature, Great Expectations, historical. Victorian

Krieger_clone's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Charles Dickens, classic literature, Great Expectations, historical. Victorian ·
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Simple Lessons are the Hardest to Learn

January 2, 2017 by ElCicco 3 Comments

Way back when I was a kid in the 1970s, I remember seeing part of a TV production of Great Expectations starring Michael York as Pip. While I had forgotten most of the story, I do have a vivid recollection of Miss Havisham, who cannot help but leave an impression on a viewer or reader. I don’t think I ever read the novel before now, or if I tried, I never finished. And so with this review, I give a nod to “the canon,” which […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr9, Charles Dickens, ElCicco, Fiction, Great Expectations

ElCicco's CBR9 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr9, Charles Dickens, ElCicco, Fiction, Great Expectations ·
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