I've just finished _Demon Copperhead_ by Barbara Kingsolver, and it was great. Hard work, and painful to read in parts, but a really good book.
Here is my review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a26035a8-0fc0-4fba-aec2-c65dd4cef575
#books #review #DemonCopperhead #Kingsolver #Dickens #DavidCopperfield #poverty #USA #appalachian #Bookstodon

@bridgetmck @NatureMC @gdjp

In fact, I was just thinking about this quote, and feel that I would like to share it in #ClimateDiary:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the
epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."

(opening sentence of Charles #Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)

@Missrdevine That was #Dickens' early draft, but sadly his #RWNJ editor made him change it.

#Whimsy #ClimateCrisis #CharlesDickens

Today in Labor History June 11, 1381: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was going strong. Tyler led a Peasant revolt in England, from May to June 15, 1381. The uprising began in response to a new poll tax. However, Tyler called for property to be held in common and equality for all. The peasants also wanted the right to choose their employer, rather than to be tied to a specific landlord. The rebellion contributed to the end of serfdom.

Tyler’s Rebellion has been referenced in many works of music and literature. He is the protagonist in Pierce Egan the Younger's novel “Wat Tyler, or the Rebellion of 1381 (1841),” a radical text published as a propaganda piece during the Chartist movement, as an argument for a republican government. Charles Dickens invokes Wat Tyler’s name in “Bleak House” (1853). Tyler also appears as a sympathetic hero in “A Dream of John Ball” (1888) by the socialist writer William Morris. And he appears in Melville’s “Redburn” and in Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #WatTyler #rebellion #peasant #revolt #landlord #england #literature #fiction #writer #author #socialism #melville #MarkTwain #Dickens @bookstadon

#humour #Dickens #schrodinger

Just wrote a note to myself to start this chapter with competing readings of corpses in #Otranto and Bleak House. #Dickens

https://pca.st/podcast/6e23d6a0-3d82-013a-d675-0acc26574db2 I recently started listening to the Charles Dickens: a Brain on Fire podcast and have been really impressed. It's probably next to In Our Time as my favorite Victorian pod. Anyone have any other podcast recommendations? #Dickens #Victorian

They have started clear cutting #Weelaunee #forest and the #police have grown increasingly aggressive to #Atlanta residents in the area. We need all the help we can get now to #stopcopcity. Call the Atlanta representatives or hell, come to Atlanta yourself and join in on the #protests.

Office numbers of Governor Brian #Kemp and Mayor #Dickens to Stop #CopCity

Kemp: +1-404-656-1776
Dickens: (404) 330-6054

Finishing #ATaleofTwoCities with my class today and noticed this interesting shift to first-person plural as the main characters are making their escape. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but I don't think #Dickens does anything like it anywhere else in the book. #Victorian

Und um 20.10 Uhr, auch im #Deutschlandfunk, ein #Hörspiel, dessen Ankündigung sich wunderbar-grotesk liest:

Moment, das wird Sie interessieren!
Von Stefan Weigl

Von #Kündigung|en und #Callcenter|n.
Solcherart Hörspiele sind bei uns sehr beliebt, deswegen mögen wir wohl auch Dickie Dick #Dickens so sehr. Mal sehen, wie es wird.
Wer hört noch zu? :-)
Jerome

Asylum seeker barge plan would face legal challenge

The plan is to house in a barge off Portland - which is bleak!

More Great Expectations than Bleak House - #Dickens would have a field day lambasting the current crew in power & their treatment of the disadvantaged

Portland residents already had to suffer a prison in their midst - that's how #toriesOut treat poorer communities - when they open a migrant centre in the Cotswolds I might beleive they are sincere in governing for all
#toriesOut

Things that have lightened my load this week

- Man Up

- Seeing Kid #2 over the wires

- Seeing Kid #1 in real life

- finding out that the poo emoji is available in Teams at work

- the Rock & Groove riddim LP

- the Radio 1 Xtra video clip of Rock & Groove

- comedy LPs on Spotify

- ropey recordings of The Likely Lads on archive.org

- A Tesco jam doughnut

- the London Landmarks run

- it not raining for the above

- Great Expectations

#ThisWeek #running #reggae #comedy #Dickens

A rainy night in #London featuring the Old Curiosity Shop - a genuinely old building but from what I've read its claim to fame is dubious.

Find this here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/standing-outside-the-old-curiosity-shop-mark-e-tisdale.html?product=art-print

Sharing always kindly appreciated - this is how I pay ye olde billsy. 😉 ⭐

#DigitalArt #Painting #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #RainArt #LondonArt #British #Dickens #CharlesDickens #Dickensian #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #MarkOnArt

I've always had this vague memory of seeing a Charles Dickens manuscript in a small town museum as a child. As literally NOBODY mentioned it, even my English teacher when I was studying the same book for O Level.
But it turns out Wisbech museum does have the full original manuscript for Great Expectations, and I've wasted decades not telling people this cool fact. #Wisbech #Dickens #GreatExpectations

So, now we have the return of prison hulks and we have the rise of slum landlords. Dickens returns. #Dickens

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/28/home-office-planning-to-house-asylum-seekers-on-disused-cruise-ships?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

UK asylum plans: Plans on future of migrant hotels to be announced

Apparently the less-than-lovely #SuellaBraverman wants to use disused ferries instead - so we are slipping back to #Dickens early 19th C hulks to house #migrants ......

Just because the #sunak govt is competent does not makes it less evil than that of the #vacuumOfIntegrity

#toriesOut
#labour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65074419

While I'm thinking about Dickens miniseries adaptations, I really liked the BBC's "Little Dorrit," starring Claire Foy and Matthew MacFayden, now both big stars but I'm not sure either was when they made this. (Also, Andy Serkis as a villain, very scary, and many other arresting performances.)

#Dickens
#AndrewDavies

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Dorrit/dp/B07C88V4J8

Today I have to grade 14 more essays; we begin my last M1 course on Death and Health in #Dickens; and I need to prep for my undergrad classes tomorrow where we’re reading #Gaskell and #Edgeworth

A new version of "Great Expectations," with Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham is coming to Hulu next Sunday.

I bet she's great, but I don't know, I think this is a hard novel to adapt. Remember when Ethan Hawke played Pip? That seems wrong, but I think it really did happen ...

#Dickens
#Books

https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/great-expectations/cast

Na, habt ihr heute Abend schon was vor?
Wenn nicht, dann kommt doch vorbei und spielt mit Sascha Schach :D. Naa, kleiner Spaß, wenn es etwas gibt, das Sascha nicht interessiert, ist das vermutlich dieses Spiel.

Wenn ihr im Empfangsbereich des Bayerischen Rundfunks seid, dann empfehlen wir euch heute, dringend ab 20.05 Uhr #Bayern2 zu hören, dort wird eine grandiose Hörspielserie wiederholt, Dickie Dick #Dickens, eine #Satire auf Kriminalhörspiele. Sehr empfehlenswert.
Kilian