How to Read a Dickens Novel

Each year at the hardcore literature book club we reread a christmas carol and then we add a novel in as well so far we have enjoyed great expectations for this year's Dickens. Charles Dickens is easier to approach than say balsak, writes Edwin druid. Kurt Vonnegut implored his students to assign works based on their own childlike sense of joy or lack of now when I do a special author project I do a lot less marginalia if I'm doing a deep reading of a big read I'll cover my book in ink but when you're trying to make your way through a specific author's back catalog again you're going for breadth," he says.