Julie’s Reviews > Doctor Thorne > Status Update

I am "reading” Trollope’s Barsetshire books lately mostly as a kind of bedtime lullaby. The audiobks murmur while Barchester’s assorted schemers carry on with great seriousness about things that are faintly ridiculous.

Trollope has that rare gift of seeing through everyone’s vanity while still liking them very much and so, somewhere between their thunderings and maneuverings, I drift off, knowing humanity is safe.