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Characters vs. types

Talking about David Copperfield today at book club, we wondered which character in the book we’d most like to be. Not any of the women, although Peggotty was one of my faves. A few said they’d want to be David who, though he suffers, does grow (and ‘learn discipline’) and ends up well.
 
Today I think [...]

Posted 28 September 2008 † nickyp § Reading § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

“Procrastination is the thief of time”

Due to my Sharpe fixation in August, I now have only four weeks to read the entirety of David Copperfield before we meet up for book club. From “I am born” through “A last retrospect” is 715 pages in my Barnes & Noble Classics edition. Turns out, though, this is a perfect time for Dickens’s [...]

Posted 31 August 2008 † nickyp § Reading ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,