A review by bluestarfish
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

4.0

As often seems to be the case with me and Dickens I take a little while to get into it, and then I really enjoy it. The Pickwick Papers are a huge undertaking and I struggled at first but then at some point something clicked and I was reading avidly without realising it. I think it was probably around the time when I got the characters straight in my head and could start distinguishing between them. And Sam Weller is a real joy.

Reading the Pickwickian Christmas shortly before the one in real-time was also fortuitous. It's such a lovely description that I could see that being added to the annual Christmas reading.