Status Updates From A Tale of Two Cities

Think I finally have a grasp on what's going on

I'm 100 pages in, and this book is really pushing on my "When to give up on a book, sub clause: Classics" rule.

Mark Twain hated Austen but apparently read this book every two years, and it's really making me rethink Twain.

It's like less of a novel and more a collection of interconnected short stories, but the only thing that connects them is that almost nothing happens.