Happy Birthday Charles Dickens

I am working on another longer post and have some work deadlines, but I didn't want the day to pass without acknowledging that today is the 200th Anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth.  Here are a few links to celebrate:

• Google Doodle for Dickens to the left.
• Click here to read my review of The Man Who Invented Christmas about Dickens' writing of A Christmas Carol.
• Use the links to read my reviews of Drood and The Last Dickens.  Both have a Dicken's frame.  These reviews include more reading and watching options for Dickens fans.
• Here is the NPR report entitled "A Tale of Two Centuries" from over the weekend. And another from today.
• Flavorwire's Top 10 Dickens' characters.
• Discussion of when he visited New York.
• Dickens is even cool enough for EW.
• Book Page's roundup of Dickens links too.

It is so nice to see a writer who can still capture the attention of readers 200 years after his birth.  It makes everything I do to help readers find the perfect book for their current mood seem worth it.

Remember, all of Dickens' works are available for free electronically from Amazon, the iBooks store, or Project Gutenberg.