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It's nice to hear both of you are looking forward to it, and that information is very interesting BG. Bad landlady! Heh. His pre-success reminds me a bit of Dickens with the money troubles and writing for pressing needs yet still coming up with something worth being discussed all this time later.
I'm about a fourth of the way through. In case we try it in a few months I'm already giving a go to planning to read a certain amount per week, in this case a fourth each week so I'm up to Chapter 11. So far I like it, and think it's an easy read considering its age. The plot moves quickly without much bother to detail usually, there's certainly moralising and nothing too fantastic has happened yet but I am enjoying the humorous aspects. One in particular is when the mother and sisters decide they all (minus the vicar) need to take the horses to travel to church rather than walking to look properly fashionable to their new acquaintance. The description of the result is quick and straightforward but just picturing it all gave me a good chuckle, and I think Goldsmith seems to have a knack for understanding how to present these humorous situations as it still comes across well even after all this time. And adding up the numbers led me to notice that the book celebrated turning 250 just a couple of years ago.
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