~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, we had every...
I don't know why but this has become one of my favourite novels; I think it has partly to do with the historical detail, but it probably it is more likely due to the fact that Dickens uses language so well and allows the reader to be drawn into the story as much as possible. So when a readalong was...
There are spoilers herein, but – well. It's 153 years old. I've had Tale high up on my tbr since listening to the magnificent abridged version read by Tom Baker; it was well done and gorgeously performed, but when's all's said an abridgement is an abomination before Thoth, and I wanted the whole th...
As a freshman in high school, I took Brit Lit this year. We read A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies over the summer, and I absolutely could not stand (or understand) ATTC, and LOTF was not much better. We started off the year with Beowulf, which was decent but a little to predictable for my ...
I keep list of all the books whose endings truly and thoroughly satisfied me. It's a very short list, and A Tale of Two Cities is now on it. That ending. Oh man.
I had the best of times and not the worst of times, reading this novel. While I certainly had great expectations going into it I found that there were no hard times to be had while reading. Which is a great positive, because otherwise my home would have been a bleak house. Now, with it being holiday...
This review is dedicated to my Uncle Bill, whose 1935 Copp Clark Publishers' hard-cover I found and began to read just a few days after he died on October 29 of this year. My family - my parents and their siblings - grew up very poor during and after The Great Depression in Toronto. No one was abl...
When I’m reading a book, approximately half of me lives in this book. My perception of reality is tainted by the circumstances of the characters from that book. So when I was reading A Tale of Two Cities I was partly in London in 2013 and partly in Paris during the Reign of Terror. One day I was s...
The two cities are London and Paris on the eve of and during the French Revolution. This is Dickens' one work of historical fiction and the most popular of his books among American readers according to one poll. I've tried reading it before and found it boring. I recently read Great Expectations and...
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