2021 Reading Thread

1. Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner
2. Henry James, Daisy Miller
3. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

this one was a real delight -- so many perfect, vivid, haunting scenes, and such a sense of music in the prose.

I did a bit of related Dickens-posting earlier today, wrt Hard Times, which I read a few months ago

https://twitter.com/PETARDHOISTER/status/1350192889238859777
truly no one knows how to begin a novel like Dickens does

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm
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