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Done with a crazy school semester, picked up right where I left off on my “real” reading (sorry, not sorry, you fusty ol‘ biology textbooks). I adore this book: Eliot has a way of prying off the lids to all her characters‘ heads and gently examining the contents. Written 150 years ago, Middlemarch offers the humbling realization that you‘re just another chapter in a never-ending human story of vice, virtue and finding that one great love.
“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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