Sorry it has taken me so long to post again. Yes, I'm still working my way through Bleak House, I actually spoke about my project for the first time publicly at a job interview the other day. I think speaking about it outside of my immediate family made it more real, so I vowed to post at least every other day.....
So, on to the progress with the book. I am loving this book. One thing that I am noticing and really enjoying is how Dickens changes his narrative style depending on which group of characters we happen to be visiting. When we're at Bleak House, or with Richard, Ada, and Esther, the language choices are light and airy, even when the action is not. When we're at Chesney Wold, whether with or without the Dedlocks language choices are gloomy, in fact it's always raining there. When out and about in London we get a mixture of gloom and sunshine both in setting and in language choice.
I'm really enjoying this novel, and while I've always found Dickens to be a challenge, I'm able to see this novel in my mind's eye and am really looking forward to watching the both the 1985 and the 2005 BBC produced mini-series, as I can see that this particular novel would translate well to either stage or screen. I'm really curious to see how someone else interprets the Growlery, which I think is such a wonderful place. In fact I love it so much that I'm considering renaming my office the Growlery, not that I'm always "out of humour" when I'm in my office, but I find the idea of a specific place to go when I am, to be appealing to say the least.
More in a couple of days....
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