
Hello! I am Lizzie, and my main joy in life is reading books and thinking about books! I have so many thoughts about each book I read so wanted a place to record these thoughts, and a place where others who are reading the same book as me can share their thoughts about it too. I’ve tried to write my (often lengthy!) reviews of books so it feels like I am chatting with you as we read the book together, comparing thoughts at the end of a chapter and ideas of where the plot and characters may end up, wondering why the author has written a character or scene in a particular way and what they may be subtly trying to tell us about that character or scene. So enjoy reading along with me, and please get in touch, I’d love to be able to discover more about a favourite book from your thoughts on it.

Hmmm, Charles Dickens is one of my all-time favourite authors and I will happily re-read his books over and over again, but this is one book of his which has never grabbed me like the others have and therefore I have only read it once rather than re-reading it and re-reading it as I have done the others. So I feel it is time to try again with this book and see if I can love it as I love his other books, or if it still doesn’t grab me for some reason then to try and understand the reason for this. And even though I have read this book before, that was years and years ago, so it feels like I will be reading it for the first time as I don’t really remember what happens in it. Grab your copy and let’s read it together! Read the full review