Don Quixote in Charles Dickens’s “Our Mutual Friend” (1865). #111Words #CharlesDickens #OurMutualFriend #DonQuixote #DonQuijote #MiguelDeCervantes #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe #DavidCopperfield https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/don-quixote-in-charles-dickenss-our.html

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

Barbara #Kingsolver's Demon Copperhad is strongly based on 'Dickens' David Copperfield. To help me understand the former, I've just re-read the latter. It's great!
See https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c41c53f4-aba6-4965-9716-1348a495ffe4

#DavidCopperfield
#DemonCopperhaed
#CharlesDickens
#BararaKingsolver
#Bookstodon
#review
#storygraph
#literature
#classic

I've been slowly working my way through my pile of shame books for 10 years.

I've found an app, called Serial Reader, that gives me a 20 min chunk of a classic novel every day.

I finished The Mark of Zorro that way, and now I'm 15% in to my first ever Dickens - David Copperfield.

The app and books are free with no ads. I just paid the $4 to upgrade though, because you get a few useful features - like a Read Later queue.

Well worth a try, I read my daily bit over breakfast or lunch.
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@SerialReader
#reading #ClassicBooks #CharlesDickens #DavidCopperfield #serialreaderapp

#DavidCopperfield dislikes the term #MagicTrick. He feels it cheapens the work that goes into his #Illusions. If his illusions didn't trick, fool people, though, he wouldn't have a career.

#DavidCopperfield posts fake #Videos explaining his #Illusions to throw people off? Brilliant.

Dan Peggotty in #DavidCopperfield (1935), Mr. Potter in #It'sAWonderfulLife (1946) and James Temple in #KeyLargo (1948). A scene-stealer for Tod Browning as the Van Helsing-like Professor in #MarkOfTheVampire (1935) and - partly in drag - the vengeful ex-con in #TheDevilDoll (1936).

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #ClassicHorror #GoldenEraHollywood

2/2

When she was. I would have lived. Stamp upon
Her was complete. She put her hands before
Whom you and all of us that you have tried.
I know no more and I can say no more.

#DavidCopperfield #Verse
https://literaverse.xyz/714550508217614336/DavidCopperfield-Verse

He is reserved. It came on slowly like
A cloud when there is no wind. What his thoughts
Were on the Monday evening. So now you
Know Copperfield. But there can t be one.

#DavidCopperfield #Blank
https://literaverse.xyz/714539184270065664/DavidCopperfield-Blank

I wondered what she
Was thinking about as I
Loved Dora to me.

#DavidCopperfield #Haiku
https://literaverse.xyz/714505209317031936/DavidCopperfield-Haiku

Come into Court. What it cost me
To look up. What you wish to be
Done can t be done.
She has met with some
Large losses. By all means said he.

#DavidCopperfield #Limerick
https://literaverse.xyz/714388206274134016/DavidCopperfield-Limerick

Who are you Copperfield. There s no love
Between us. Where s mother. You hold your
Tongue mother. Why don t you make him speak.
Come on come on. We shall see. He read on.

#DavidCopperfield #Blank
https://literaverse.xyz/714297588934901760/DavidCopperfield-Blank

Then Martha. Why to London. As Em ly.
Em ly spoke first. You don t know what she
Gave her I don t know. I am not I
Know I do. Oh my dear. I want to be
A better girl than I am. Ham dear try
To help me. You are never so to me.
No one knows me from my aunt. As the door.
I want to be. I saw her do before.

#DavidCopperfield #Ottava
https://literaverse.xyz/714225874223939584/DavidCopperfield-Ottava

Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh.
I told her so. What did I
Think what did I know.

#DavidCopperfield #Haiku
https://literaverse.xyz/714218316602998784/DavidCopperfield-Haiku

What should I tell. My love and joy were dumb.
With her own good time. Otherwise the staid
Old house and went once more as she had come.
My dear girl. It was all that I had made
In all this lapse of time. She was so true
She was so dear to me as it had been
When I first saw it. You have much to do
Dear Agnes. Papa is well. I found him
As my aunt cu…

#DavidCopperfield #Sonnet
https://literaverse.xyz/714052235547607040/DavidCopperfield-Sonnet

That s the till. He told me that what she
Brought it for. I replied politely not
At present. I forgive you. Two or three
Year older than Em ly do. Have I got
All my traps. Two or three year older than
Em ly my dear. Did I see her tonight
Ham on the instant quite as well as Ham.
It seems so. When I heard these words a light
Began to fall upon the fi…

#DavidCopperfield #Sonnet
https://literaverse.xyz/714029603364225024/DavidCopperfield-Sonnet

If you don t we.
I haven t stood by it.
Dear Agnes touched me.

#DavidCopperfield #Haiku
https://literaverse.xyz/713991825974788096/DavidCopperfield-Haiku

Dick knows it said my
Aunt had said Yes he hoped so.
But there is said I.

#DavidCopperfield #Haiku
https://literaverse.xyz/713878579632603136/DavidCopperfield-Haiku

Tell me of yourself.
Dear Agnes. It was all that
I had left myself.

#DavidCopperfield #Haiku
https://literaverse.xyz/713844610990014464/DavidCopperfield-Haiku

I won t flinch. I heard all kinds of things
About it. My first half at Salem house.
Was it a sharp tooth Hey. He was a waste
Of my mind running on him. I don t.

#DavidCopperfield #Blank
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