Great Expectations

Everywhere I went while reading this book, I heard, “You're reading Great Expectations? I love that book! It's one of my favorites!” Which led me to have great expectations about it.

Of course, now, after finishing the book, I see where having great expectations can lead...how one could and should find happiness in one's own backyard or enormous TBR stack...

I've given away the plot here, but this book is so much a part of American high school life that I can't be giving away much. How did I get through high school without reading it? My hs English teachers chose the heartbreaker, David Copperfield, so it's not my first Dickens. I can see that Dickens can tell a story. Who wouldn't love this book? It's the Harry Potter of its time.