• the bookshelf

    bleak house.

    I am, at the moment, happily immersed in the world of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.  I love Dickens.  One of my top five favorite books of all time is David Copperfield, and who didn’t grudgingly love Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities when you were made to read them in high school? Mom Gentino read Bleak House for her book club last year and convinced me to try it.  Try it, I did.  It was one of the first (free!) books I downloaded when I got my Kindle.  And I got exactly 34 percent through it before giving up.  There are so many characters to keep straight.  And five…