The Book Case

Great idea! Jane Austen gets a 5 star vote. How about The Count of Monte Christo?

Love the Jane Austen idea.

I can’t begin to tell you how much I adore this podcast. The interviews, the familial conversation, the laughter, the discussions with authors (and yes, book nerds is an acceptable appellation) but when you added an episode featuring my all time favorite book, I squealed with joy. I’ve been reading A Christmas Carol annually since 1979—and to be honest, I often read it multiple times in a year. Dickens achieved so much with so few words. No other book hits so many emotions so well. I still remember the first time I read it and how delighted I was with Dickens’ prose in lines like “… as close to it as I am to you and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow.” I’d never read anything like it and I still delight in every word no matter how many times I read it, listen to the audiobooks, or watch the movies. More classics please!!!! I’d love to hear other classic favorites get this treatment. Oh, and I’ve already decided that This Christmas Carol episode will be an annual (at least) listen for me. I can highly recommend a fabulous companion book. It’s out of print, but worth a search: The Annotated Christmas Carol by Michael Patrick Hearn—which explains all the phrases, puns, jokes and words that have fallen from modern usage as well as illustrations, and so much more.

You have the title Homecoming not Homeseeking. It would be better if you had the book title in the blurb of the podcast