Last night around 11:30 PM I finished reading my first classic novel...I think. (I don't know if The Count of Monte Cristo counts as a classic.) I started reading Great Expectations last summer, and I had put it down for awhile. I didn't realize how close I was to finishing. Here is the last paragraph:

"I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place, and as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her."
--Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- posted by Alison @ 8:28 AM