Have I read this before: Nope.

Review: This is hard to review because I read like 60% of this in like February and then didn’t pick it up again until a week or so ago*, haha. I remember not being too into the first half, but I enjoyed the more recent portion more, perhaps because things really picked up in terms of pace and cohesiveness by then. This is very much in Dickens’ style of “there are 60 characters and they’re all heavily interconnected somehow and their lives are just one big soap opera,” but maybe not quite as insane in that respect as, say, Great Expectations was. It was a’ight.

Favorite Part: The guy living next to the Nicklebys starts giving Mrs. Nickleby vegetables and she starts falling for him. We get the line:

“You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment.”

Rating: 5/10

*I read on the treadmill, which means that my reading time is basically restricted to the days of the year where it’s too cold/smoky/rainy to be outside.