charles.

i am reading oliver twist right now.

the last time i read dickens (a tale of two cities) i did not have a good experience. i made it most of the way through the book before i caught on to the fact that someone had been murdered early on, and i still have no idea who did it. i'm pretty sure that's not what the author intended. i just could not follow what was going on.

but i bought oliver twist because it was only $2, and i want to read classic literature.

and i totally love it. i'm about 100 pages in, and it is gripping. i can tell exactly how it is going to end (awww), but at the moment...poor oliver is in some serious trouble.

so now i won't be scared to read more charles dickens....like great expectations. i hear that's a good one.

i can't tell if i'm more or less cool than i was 10 years ago. i'm a huge nerd. i like to read things like oliver twist. (and theology, and nonfiction, and a lot of other super cool books). so that could mean i'm LESS cool. BUT...i didn't know anything about the world 10 years ago. there was no classic literature that i was required to read because i was home-schooled. (i keep saying i'll rant about that one day, but haven't yet...but for my newer readers...i am not a fan....) so i had never read "to kill a mockingbird", or "the scarlet letter", or anything. so i'm catching up. and i think that makes me MORE cool.

not that it matters...it's just interesting to note the changes.

also, i've only been out of college for 2 years...but i've already forgotten how to properly emphasize book titles. not that i'm real concerned about grammar rules here at "i'mthechief" but it's sad that i don't know anymore. that is for sure...not cool. underline? italicize? i chose to put quotation marks or do nothing at all, which i am 100% sure is wrong.