Reading List by Jennie for July through September

Romola by George Eliot

This is one of the last George Eliot books I had unread. I’ll confess that early on I thought about dumping it, but I persevered. As a book written in the 19th century about the 15th century and centered quite a lot on philosophy and the character of Florence at the time, there was a lot of blah blah blah at first.

The central story is pretty simple – a young man, the victim of a shipwreck, arrives in Florence and begins making connections immediately. He is Tito Melema, a...