Mostly Monday – The Day before Dickens…

The day before Charles Dickens' birthday, that is.  I think this will be a Dickens of a week here at juliakarr dot com.

My favorite book for quite some time now (sorry Jane!) is Dickens' A Christmas Carol. But, it doesn't stop there… when I was in my twenties I went on a Dickens binge – reading all of his books! And, no – it wasn't for any class – but that is how I worked my way through many of the classics.

Thinking about this reminds me of my adventure with The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Through my many moves (I wasn't one to stay put), I'd been carting around a very old copy of The Three Musketeers. When this particular movie version came out…

it inspired me to read the book. Then… I had to read the entire d'Artagnan Romances! Finding them was a challenge – especially in the days of no internet! However, the fabulous library where I was living at the time (Thornton, CO) managed to help me piece together a trail of all the books (there are only 3, but at least one of them is at times divided into 3 volumes – one of those being The Man in the Iron Mask.) And so – I read them – followed d'Artagnan from his first meeting with the Musketeers, all the way to his death.

I love those kinds of stories! The kind that tell the entire life of a character! And, I love to – and still do – go on author binges. Do you ever do that? I'd love to hear who you think is a worthwhile author of whom to partake in super-large doses!