Book Update

Since being here I have realized that there are two types of English books that are extremely easy to find...Harry Potter and the classics (Dickens, Bronte, Austen, etc). Since I'm not a Harry Potter fan, I have been reading the classics. Yesterday I bought an English copy of Jane Eyre from a man who was selling books off of a cart that was on the back of his bicycle!

Last week I stayed up until 3:15am so that I could finish Great Expectations and discovered two important things:

1. Unless there is some sort of serious reason, I should never attempt to stay up until 3:15 in the morning. My college days are definitely over.

2. Finishing a Charles Dickens book is reason enough to stay up that late. What a wonderful book! I have read other Dickens' books before but I think that this was my favorite. In the beginning I absolutely hated the main character, Pip, but he undergoes such a dramatic change throughout the course of the novel, it is definitely worth the read.

~A