(Note – edited to bring three to one…) Happy 211th birthday, Charles Dickens! That is right, Charles Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812. If you recall, on the last two C.D. birthdays Yvette Prior and I started a Dickens Challenge. In 2021 we did Little Dorrit. Last year, 2022, we did Bleak House. This year, the third, we are going to be joined by a third, Marsha Ingrao, and it will be a real triple threat – we are letting you, yes YOU, choose three one of Dickens’ novellas! Yep, any three (novella) you chose, though if you do just one, that is better than nothing (uhm, it has been changed to one..).

Trying to find a novella beyond A Christmas Carol, or some of his other Christmas novellas, might not seem an easy task, so you can try a few places. Here is a list of works, and you can find novellas and short stories listed. And here is Wikipedia’s version of a list of Dickens’ works. Here is Project Gutenberg’s selection of Dickens’ works. You can find works on Amazon, though it seems like the Kindle store is the best for novellas, and I am sure at many other book sellers. (See Yvette’s post with descriptions of 5 of Dickens’ novellas)

I am going to copy directly from Yvette’s Challenge intro (see it here!!) and let her tell you what we have planned for this year (I also stole the image at the top from Yvette):

This year’s Invitation:

• The 2023 #DickensChallenge invites you to read ANY THREE of Dickens’ novellas between February 7th and June 9th, 2023 (the dates for the challenge align with Dickens’ date of birth and date of death). Then share about your reading in a post (or posts) or via comments on one or all of the host blogs. 
• We will allow comments to be shared  until around June 16th – and then we will raffle off the gift cards by entering the names of participants into a raffle. 
• Use this hashtag: #Dickenschallenge
• We will be making a master page with info – coming soon 

Start planning now! June will be here sooner than you think. Pick your three novellas and beginning reading.

Hope you join us :)

(If you missed it, we changed the challenge from three novellas to just one! I like my triple threat, so didn’t change the wording much…)