Just kidding, everyone! I AM in fact making a little progress on Oliver Twist despite the insane amount of work I have due this week. Basically, it is a far more appealing choice than any of the reading for class that I have to do, as sad as that is. I am now 50 pages in instead of 28 or wherever I was before, and already Oliver has met the Artful Dodger (who has an actual real name that I've already forgotten, but nonetheless, I was shocked!) and Fagin and seen the dirty room where they all live. Fagin has not yet taught them how to pick a pocket (or two) but I'm sure that's coming up soon. I'm surprised how quickly the story picked up after Oliver got out of the funeral parlor. Hopefully the 20 pages I just read are not the most exciting part of the whole book. We'll have to see, I guess.
On a different topic, I tried to look for a copy of A Christmas Carol that I liked today and I couldn't find one :( Either they are paperback and super small, or paperback with a strange picture on the front, or hardcover and containing a bunch of other stories that I'm not interested in, or itty bitty hardcover for an absurd amount of money for a story that is less than 100 pages long. Half the price of Gone With The Wind, which is over 1000. What's up with that? So, I'm debating and trying to figure out which one I dislike least. Oh well...
So that's it for now! Hopefully I'll get a little farther in Oliver later
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