Welcome! Come and join Moonlight Reader and me in our buddy read of the Dicken’s classic, Bleak House.
About Bleak House:
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A ‘great Victorian novel’, it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.
Proposed Reading Schedule: (subject to real-life)
Week 1 (25Feb-03Mar) – Chapters Preface-12
Week 2 (04Mar-11Mar) – Chapters 13-24
Week 3 (11Mar-17Mar) – Chapters 25-36
Week 4 (18Mar-24Mar) – Chapters 37-48
Week 5 (25Mar-31Mar) – Chapters 49-60
Week 6 (01Apr-07Apr) – Chapters 61-67
Week 7 (08Apr-14Apr) – Extra Week (if needed)
Discussion Questions:
Well, i’m still looking for some good discussion questions – so there may be some posted at the end of each week, I’m really not sure yet 😉
I don’t normally do these posts (and I’ll readily admit that I’ve been really bad about working on this challenge), but when the update post showed up in my inbox this morning, I figured what the heck. Mostly because this month has actually been semi-successful on the reading/listening front when it comes to this challenge.
But onto the Deja Vu Review question – this was actully a relatively easy pick for me. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. This was one of the first classics I read after I graduated from college and started listening to audiobooks on a regular basis and I was blown away. I loved reading/listening about Jane’s trials and tribulations and came to love her as a character. While I haven’t yet, I easily forsee myself re-reading JE in the future. As well as watching several (if not all) of the various movie adaptions that have come out over the years.
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