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Asha
is 5% done
This is going to take me months because it is above my reading level and I find it is much easier to follow when I read aloud. But. I am really enjoying it. The dense stacks of metaphors. The dripping contempt for lawyers and law clerks. The way it swaps voices very clearly between Esther and the narrator. I didn't expect to like it but I am invested.
— May 20, 2025 06:19PM
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Asha
is 6% done
As someone who has never read Dickens - I had this image in my head of it is inaccessible and old and maybe a bit stuff. But it is actually very immediate and human and .... not current exactly but like there's a sense of knowing people like that. And Esther's pov where she refuses to see the bad in anyone makes the way it shines through clearer.
— Jun 12, 2025 07:26PM
