Dear Jamie, Sue and Booksharian Friends, Dickens is my favorite author, but I didn't finish the Pickwick Papers, either. He was just starting out, getting the hang of publishing his work in serial form in newspapers. Pickwick Papers are loosely linked short stories, not a novel, and those characters were too silly for my taste. Everything else Dickens, I've loved. Right now I'm reading Bookshare's braille file of "The Help," which Mayrie did a marvelous job of proofreading. As usual, I don't want to see a book based movie until I've read the book. I'm 2/3 through and there hasn't been a dull or unemotional moment. My first two years of teaching were in Jackson Mississippi in the very early 70s, so I feel very close to the life style depicted. Having grown up in Ohio, there was some culture shock involved, but Jackson gave a legally blind beginner her start in teaching and the experience which enabled me to move back to Ohio where I had the teaching career of my dreams. Look for Household Gods to be in the collection in a few days. It's 660 pages of fabulously detailed historical fiction about everyday life in a Roman city on the Danube in the 170s A.D. A woman living in California in the late twentieth century is frustrated because she doesn't get a promotion she earned, her daycare provider has quit and her microwave stops waving, thinks life was easier and simpler in Roman cities with their advanced laws, sewage systems and orderly city layouts. She is whisked back to live in the body of a widow who owns a tavern where she and the reader learn what life is like with tainted water, plagues, no rights for women, slavery, beast shows, public baths and markets where you get the wool and hoof on your leg of lamb. Happy Booksharing, Always With Love, Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Yates, CPhT To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 12:06 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: btc books? Sherry, I will find a book for you in the next week. If my scanner and software cooperate anyway. Right now it's putting paragraph markers at the end of every single line. Sue, I think I'm going to quit the Pickwick Papers. It's just not going anywhere. If I were reading the print book I think I'd be falling asleep every time I picked it up. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html