Day Thirty

4/30

The Book: Bleak House by Charles Dickens

ISBN: 978-1-59308-311-3

Suggested By: Rebecca Mitchell

Where: Home

When: 3-3:40P

Music: None

Company: Alone

Pages: 758- 817 (58)

The Lead In: Today I will finish my first Dickens. It’s been both better and worse than I expected. Way too many characters and, at times, a little predictable.  But other times I was surprised by its modernity, with little phrases and descriptions.  

The 411 on the 55: Well, well, the story ends today. Jarndyce changes his mind quickly and surprisingly and tells Esther to marry Mr. Woodcourt. The case is settled and all the lawyers’ fees have eaten up the estate. Richard almost dies, but makes it out of his funk. The End

The 20/20: Pretty good book overall. Well worth the read. Dickens is a master story-teller and ingenious in his manner of character creation. It was complicated to read at times, but I am glad to have pushed through to the end.

Line of the Day: “...what shall we find reasonable in Jarndyce and Jarndyce! Unreason and injustice at the top, unreason and injustice at the heart and at the bottom, unreason and injustice from beginning to end-if it ever has an end-” pg759

The Fact on the Fiction: The entire book of Bleak House is available on google books. Google