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I took an interest in this book when I heard that it took Eliot over a year to write the first chapter. I too have had my bouts with procrastination. As I read, I found it difficult to believe that it was written by a man. There was an incredible attention to detail, but I suppose that it was the types of detail that made me question the gender of the author. I learned that George Eliot was really a pen name for Mary Anne Evans... and life made sense again.
So, in terms of what it is. It is a boo ...more
So, in terms of what it is. It is a boo ...more
Having finished this book in audiobook format last night, my first impulse this morning was to go to Third Place Books and buy a paper copy so that I can start reading it again. If I could go and get myself and my one-year old dressed without waking my sick husband, that's exactly what I would be doing now.
I don't know when the last time I read a book that was so insightful, intelligent and compassionate. The heroes and villains of "Middlemarch" are people that you and I might know--champions o ...more
I don't know when the last time I read a book that was so insightful, intelligent and compassionate. The heroes and villains of "Middlemarch" are people that you and I might know--champions o ...more
Apr 28, 2011
Zach
marked it as to-read
Dec 20, 2016
Serian
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