Lisa’s Reviews > Bleak House > Status Update

"Everything that Mr. Smallweed's grandfather put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly." - This is why people still remember Charles Dickens.

Death of a seemingly unimportant character, which is just on the edge of boring me for the first time since I've started the book. But I have a feeling I should be paying attention. This is Dickens, after all.

Stepping lightly through this. One should always step lightly through Dickens.