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Dec 17, 2017
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2017- Definitely a classic! I really enjoyed reading this. Elliot is a master with words and I enjoyed immersing myself into 800 pages of hers. The characters are well written- sometimes infuriating, usually teaching in one way or another. I will revisit some day for sure!
Wow, I can't believe I've finally finished this! I started reading this at the beginning of the year with the aim to read a part a month and this style of reading really worked to keep me looking forward to coming back to these characters and not be bogged down. Yes, this was probably overly long with many plot points feeling like they were treading water for the majority of the book. But, this type of ensemble story was still quite unique for the time and George Eliot handles it masterfully.
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I decided to re-read Jane Eyre and read Middlemarch and Frankenstein for the first time after I watched Netflix's Anne with an E. I'm so glad to have read this in my middle age. I probably would have been sorely disappointed by the ending as I have been by Anne Shirley's later life as a housewife. Although George Eliot certainly didn't live the life of a conventional housewife and Middlemarch was written decades before Montgomery's Anne Shirley series, I think both Eliot and Montgomery has a ful
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I found the language difficult, and considered quitting a number of times. But I am very glad I stuck with it. A study in human follies.
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