Reflections on The Cricket on the Hearth | Christmas Dickens Readalong

my ranking of Charles dickens's Christmas developers was always like a Christmas carot at the top then the haunted man then the Crick on the heart then the Battle of life then the ches

I have reread the Battle of Life slightly more recently and I did like it a lot more the second or third time I read it

the Chimes is very confusing and complex and puzzling I feel like the Chimes is not as well executed as the cricket on the half like I feel like the Chimes is really hard to follow but now that I've read the tribes four times I find it fascinating and on my most recent reread a lot of things clicked into place and I suddenly liked it a lot more

I do really like the Crick the heart in some places and the are some great moments you know I love dickens's writing and I think the Crick on the he is probably better written than the Chimes and I think JN is a really interesting complicated and Rich character but I do think that I just got less out of the cricket on the Heth on this reread or I didn't feel like I got anything new out of it

I'm looking forward to reading the Battle of life and the haunted man and the ghost bargain both of which I really like