December 13, 2012
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A Year of Dickens
This time last year, my daughter, Betsy, and I decided to spend 2012 reading Charles Dickens. As many of you know, we like to come up with an alliteration that makes the reading topic of the year more fun! Well, it used to be the topic of the summer, but I guess we have set a new precedent, because we had an alliteration for the past year and are about to come up with some for this coming year.
And Jim decided to join us! So, here was 2012's reading alliteration. It was a long one!
Donna, Daughter, and Dad are Dedicated to Delving into the Delightful, Dreary, and Dark Documents from the Desk of Dickens, BUT, Destined to be Dragged by Dickens' Demanding Dictation, we are Free to Filter with Fiction, Fantasy, Facts, or Further Features that Find our Fancy.
So, although Jim has been reading on his Nook, a book that contains all of Dickens' works and so he is going straight through, and Bets is pretty much doing the same thing, although since she isn't here, I don't really know how she is going about it for sure, my decision was to pick some of Dicken's novels that I had not read before (and I had read quite a few, especially during our homeschooling years), and choose ones that I either had in my possession or could find in the library. I only got through 5! Some of them took a LONG time to get through! Here are the ones I read this year:
Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Dombey and Son, Hard Times, and Martin Chuzzlewit.
I did read other books - 30 other books, to be exact! And the year isn't over yet! Some were my favorite mindless mysteries, some were for Bible studies, and the majority of them were in Books on CD form - I listened to LOTS of books while I was driving across the country numerous times by myself this year.
Trust me - you can only read so much Dickens without breaks in between. There are more of his books that I would like to read, though, and so perhaps I will add some to this year's reading on occasion, or maybe I will do a year soon of mostly classics and read some of the others then.
Betsy is helping me with my alliteration, so I know I will have it before the New Year! I gave her the subject matter, and she is making up the alliteration. Stayed tuned!
Comments (7)
How cool! I read a lot, but mostly I read mystery novels or some romance. I like to escape, ha!
I think it's neat that you all read those kind of together.
This is such a neat thing you do. Prayers for me tomorrow please that I stay awake. Leave here at 6am to get to Lee's Summit by 8:30
I was wondering just the other day just how much Dickens you folks got through! What a great idea -- family book club
Donna that is so amazing to me that you have read that many books in one year. Simply amazing! I need to check out more books on tape from our library. Our little Greenwood Library has a great inventory of books on CD. In the last couple months our library moved to a temp. facility while they tore down the old one (which wasn't so old) and are getting ready to build a brand spanking new big one.
This past weekend we had an 11 hour drive out to Israels. Timmy and Diana rode with us and Tim brought along a 12 CD of John Grisham "The Testament". We listened to 6 tapes on the way out and 5 on the way home. Had to finish after we got home.I need to get back to my sewing room. I'm trying to finish us this past Clue on my mystery quilt. Bonnie gives us Clue #4 tomorrow morning.
I love reading about your alliterations, and wish I were as industrious! I used to read A LOT, but seems now my reading time is so slim, so I decided I would stick to my Bible reading. I'm so bad about getting involved in a book that it takes precedence over even my quiet time! Terrible, I know. But I am determined to read my Bible first, and that's usually as far as it goes!
Can't wait to hear next year's reading assignment!
very cool
I couldn't do more than two Dickens books in a year myself. I read about fifty books a year but too many Dickens would make that very difficult.
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