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Silas Marner

George Eliot

Start date: May 1, 2018

Finish date: May 31, 2018

Why we're reading this: May 2018 Old School Classic Group Read
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Apr 25, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, 1001-books

I loved this book. The story of this sad and lonely man who finds love and redemption when he adopts a girl was just lovely to read.

Eliot took her protagonist from a tight knit and religious community to a solitary existence and then into the hearts of another community. She explored the theme of individual versus community so beautifully. At the time this book was written a person's village was extremely important; a person's identity was provided by the community. We see this most definitely w ...more

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Feb 17, 2021 Brad rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: about-love, read-in-2021, with-bronte, classic

After all these years, I finally picked up a book by George Eliot. Silas Marner, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda have been sitting on my to read shelves (my real world shelves, not my virtual shelves) for ages, taunting me with their must read-ness.

It took my daughter to make me finally pull Silas Marner from the shelf, and that only because she wanted to read it book club style with me.

I'm mostly glad I did, but I can't help feeling that maybe Silas Marner wasn't the best Eliot book to start o ...more

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