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This was a big one! At times a slog, but not too bad in the end. I am very thankful for online summaries (Shmoop and Wikipedia) as they helped me gather and clarify my thoughts every few chapters or so.
While this book is large, I am guessing the fact that it is broken up into several smaller "books" means that at the time it was released it was delivered to the public in easier to swallow chunks. I did not look this up to confirm, but it would make sense. Instead of being 1000 pages total, it wo ...more
While this book is large, I am guessing the fact that it is broken up into several smaller "books" means that at the time it was released it was delivered to the public in easier to swallow chunks. I did not look this up to confirm, but it would make sense. Instead of being 1000 pages total, it wo ...more
So many great lines in this book- here is only one
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― Geo ...more
“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― Geo ...more
“And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.”
2.5 stars
Set in Midlands, England (Middlemarch), the story focuses on two sisters: Dorthea (whom I prefer to call Dodo) and Celia Brooke through their coming of age and beyond, and all the people that come into their lives. We see hobbies, marriages, death, betrayals, love, poverty etc. The ladies are intelligent with thoughts, feelings and actions fully their own. The writing is superb and of course short chapters ar ...more
2.5 stars
Set in Midlands, England (Middlemarch), the story focuses on two sisters: Dorthea (whom I prefer to call Dodo) and Celia Brooke through their coming of age and beyond, and all the people that come into their lives. We see hobbies, marriages, death, betrayals, love, poverty etc. The ladies are intelligent with thoughts, feelings and actions fully their own. The writing is superb and of course short chapters ar ...more
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