Reading DOMBEY AND SON

I'm reading Dickens. I cannot say exactly why this is. Just that about once a year I get an urge to read a Dickens novel, and since I've already read most of the popular ones (and some of the unpopular ones, like Little Dorrit), I'm now moving on to the truly obscure ones (in this case, Dombey and Son).

Rachel asked me what the book was about, and I genu…