Great Expectations

For school, my mother and I are reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I've already fallen in love with it--there's a certain haunting poesy about it, and it's got some pretty funny parts.

We're taking five weeks to read the thing! It's scheduled that way, and my parents are not exactly schedule slaves--but they do make me read things with the schedule for a simple reason: Otherwise, I'd read the whole book the first day, and be left with nothing to read until the next book started, or at least until the end of the year. Oh, well. If it weren't for Sonlight, I wouldn't have half as many books to read. Sonlight is my curriculum.

I've only gotten to chap. 8, so please don't comment and give me any spoilers. But I've just been haunted by Miss Havisham, who is decidedly tragic. I think she could help it, you know--if she'd let herself be happy. But she isn't, and I've got the impression that she's using this Estella person to get revenge indirectly on...someone, I don't know who.

Oh, I can't wait to read more!

My favorite character: Joe. He seems to be a sweet, sympathetic person. I like him a lot. Just read his back story today.

Anyway, I can't wait to read more, like I said!