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Middlemarch
Middlemarch | George Elliot
George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes during the Industrial Revolution. Instead of choosing to wed a wealthy landowner and settle for a comfortable life, Dorothea Brooke decides to marry Edward Casaubon-a dull scholar who is her senior by a few decades. Dorothea hopes the union will afford her with the opportunity to share in her husband's intellectual pursuits, but even her best efforts can't save the disastrous marriage. Meanwhile, idealistic doctor Tertius Lydgate has progressive ideas about the medical field, and he believes the village of Middlemarch is the place that will embrace his beliefs. But when he weds Rosamond Vincy, the mayor's beautiful daughter, his ideals come into stark contrast with his new bride's materialism and vanity, dooming their marriage from the start. Lastly, Rosamond's brother, Fred, is reluctantly destined for the Church. But his childhood sweetheart Mary Garth refuses to accept him until he settles into a more suitable career and one that interests him. But when circumstances lead to Fred losing a sizeable fortune that sets off a calamitous turn of events, he must reevaluate the choices he has made.
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lil1inblue
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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It hasn't been a great reading month, but I did finish this beast! I've spent the better part of the year in Middlemarch. Some days it was delightful, and others it was frustrating. The characters were achingly human: I was deeply invested in their fates. The book was well worth the challenge. I've rarely seen such deep understanding of human relationships and emotions.

This was my March #bookspin selection.

Ladygodiva7 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Congrats!! I‘ve yet to read my copy!! 1w
dabbe Fab review! I loved this one, too, and agree 💯 with what you wrote! 🤩 1w
lil1inblue @Ladygodiva7 Thanks! It was a challenge, but a satisfying one. 😍 7d
lil1inblue @dabbe 😍 😍 😍 7d
Suet624 Congrats!!! 5d
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Roary47
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Mehso-so

3✨We follow about three pairs of people with several side characters in this chunkster. I found that it focused on women in different walks of life, and for the men it looked at how they could make their way in the word. Obviously, a lot happened throughout the lives of these characters. It was a nice slow read.

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dabbe
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kspenmoll Perfect choice!!💙❤️🩵 3mo
dabbe @kspenmoll 🩵💙🩵 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🙌🏻 3mo
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 3mo
Roary47 I‘m almost done with this one! I‘m so close I just wish I had more time to read. 😭 🥰 3mo
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Roary47
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Nothing like a classic and way too much sugar after dinner. 🤤😅🥰💛

dabbe Oh, how I love this chunkster! 🩵💙🩵 4mo
Roary47 @dabbe Yes! I‘m really enjoying it. The only reason I know about it is my scratcher card of 100 books bucket list. 4mo
LitStephanie I didn't like this book, but that bowl of sweets looks wonderful! 4mo
Roary47 @LitStephanie It was. 🤤 4mo
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kspenmoll
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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Eggs Very pretty and bright 💛🧡💛 4mo
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nanuska_153
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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I was reviewing extracts of Middlemarch.What makes it such a great book is the layers on every character.Dodo for example,choses Casaubon because she appreciates his intelligence and wants to better herself,but also almost out of certain vanity,like she wants to show the world how different she is,how little she cares about appearances.Her character develops through suffering the consequences of her choices,but there's vanity in her martyrdom. ⬇️

nanuska_153 Fred is so selfish, the money problem with Mary's parents, it's not only what he did, but how is more concerned about being forgiven than about the damage he causes and is annoyed with Mary for not forgiving him, as if Mary owed him that. He does love her though, and is loyal and changes for her. ⬇️ 4mo
nanuska_153 Mary is like a moral compass, she is right to keep Fred at distance, but she seems almost cold sometimes. Her rigidity sometimes reaches the absurd, but she does have a soft spot for Fred.
I could go on and on with every character, they are all painted with such real colours, their dialogues mirror conversations that reflect so well their personalities that if you told me they were copied verbatim from real conversations I'd believe you
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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July #TBR

Lots of oldies, trying to clear the shelves!

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Caterina
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Pickpick

After almost six months of visiting Middlemarch, how strange that it‘s over. There were many parts of this #tome that I didn‘t love, but I did love Dorothea, and also the final sentence of the book, and I‘m still thinking about all of it. I understand why it‘s considered one of the greatest English novels, and I also feel like this didn‘t quite hit five stars for me personally, although I am so glad I read it.

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Caterina
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Another Middlemarch-accompanied puzzle! #audiopuzzling

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Roary47
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“But what the deuce was the name?”- 🤣

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Roary47
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Trying to figure out what I just read with course hero. 😅

dabbe I love Course Hero--I think even more than SparkNotes! 🤩 5mo
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Caterina
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#20in4 #Readathon @Andrew65

I finished my puzzle and reached the 75% mark in Middlemarch, so I'm happy with my weekend of reading!

#audiopuzzling

Texreader Beautiful!! I have the same brand of puzzle with 🐝 5mo
Caterina @Texreader Ooo I'm going to have to try to find that one! I loved the quality of this puzzle, and I love bees 😍 5mo
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Caterina
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#20in4 #Readathon I've been getting some good reading in this weekend, amidst work and social commitments! A little bit of time with Cross-Stitch, and tons of lovely time listening to Middlemarch while starting a new puzzle. 🥰🧩
@Andrew65

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mjtwo
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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25 April-6 May 24 (audiobook)
Long and complex but a classic worth investing some time in. I feel I cheated a little by listening to the audiobook but I really love Juliet Stevenson as a narrator and I found I was able to focus quite well. Unlike many of her contemporary female authors, Eliot did not exactly write romance and her work is more akin to Dickens than Austen or Brontë. But she does give many interesting depictions of marriage. And fate

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nanuska_153
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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I absolutely loved this one. It's long and it starts a bit slow, but after about 1/3 of the book I felt resentful towards my other reads because I only wanted to read this. You see where everyone is going to end and it's a bit Dickensian in the sense that everyone is connected to someone else, but it's the countryside so very believable. Didn't know how to feel initially about Dorothea, that mix of religion, devotion and wanting ⬇️

nanuska_153 to be useful and learn got me in ups and downs, but I absolutely loved her arch. Lydgate deserves better (THERE, I SAID IT). It's a classic for a reason, marked so many extracts that if I post them all it would feel like I wrote a book. @Jas16 #24in2024 6mo
Jas16 I loved this one too and should really reread it one of these days. 6mo
batsy So good. One of my favourites (and one that deserves a lot of rereads) 6mo
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Smarkies I have a real fondness for this book. I loved it when I read it. 6mo
nanuska_153 @Jas16 @batsy yes, I know I'll be revisiting it in a couple of years, it's such a good read ♥️ 6mo
nanuska_153 @Smarkies yes, it seems to be one of those love it or hate it books, I haven't met anyone that read it (or attempted) and was left indifferent. We are lucky to be in the love side 6mo
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lil1inblue
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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Here's my list for April's #bookspin and #doublespin. I've decided to use it to work through my (very long) list of essential women writers.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! I read Middlemarch last year with the Hashtag Brigade. It was... long 😂 7mo
lil1inblue @TheAromaofBooks I'm still plodding along! I do like it, but, yeah...it's long. 😂 7mo
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Tamra
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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Is this the perfect novel as some describe it? Not in my humble opinion, but there are some really insightful observations about human nature and relationships. Some had me guffawing out loud!

One of my favorites:

“He took a wife, as we have seen, to adorn the remaining quadrant of his course, and be a little moon that would cause hardly a calculable perturbation.” 😂

BarbaraBB Oh yes. Loved this! 8mo
Balibee146 I read this decades ago for uni and remember nothing lol. Must revisit many a classic to read for fun. What a beautiful edition. 8mo
Cathythoughts Great quote 😂 8mo
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Tamra @BarbaraBB I enjoyed being immersed in Middlemarch each night before falling asleep. I will miss it! 8mo
Tamra @Balibee146 yes! I read it decades ago and couldn‘t remember at thing. Like brand new. 🤣 8mo
Tamra @Cathythoughts there are quite of a few little zingers in it. 8mo
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Bookwormjillk
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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It‘s a beautiful night for an audiowalk. I‘m listening to the very weird Strange Bedfellows Death-march Through Middlemarch podcast. Members of the #hashtagbrigade might get a kick out of it.

https://open.spotify.com/show/3qhQK56wn0mbTmXGgEnKgX

AmyG Lovely! 8mo
BethM So pretty! 8mo
Deblovestoread Lovely sunset! 8mo
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dabbe
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#FreebieFriday
#LitsyLove
#favoritechunkster

I truly enjoyed MIDDLEMARCH by George Eliot; it remains my favorite chunkster that I actually loved and finished! 😃

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDieDude

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🤎🤍🤎 8mo
Read4life I haven‘t read it. Thanks for sharing. 💙💌💙 (edited) 8mo
dabbe @Read4life It's (obviously) long, but it's good! 💚💙💚 8mo
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Tamra
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“He took a wife, as we have seen, to adorn the remaining quadrant of his course, and be a little moon that could cause hardly a calculable perturbation.” Perfection!!

Oh Lordy! No wonder Casaubon feels nary a whisper of passion for Dorothy. No good can come from this union.

Perhaps the well runs deep with Casaubon, but on the surface he has the personality of a doorknob.

monkeygirlsmama "personality of a doorknob" ??? 9mo
Ruthiella Read on. You ain‘t read nothin‘ yet. 😆 9mo
Tamra @Ruthiella 👏🏾👏🏾 9mo
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Tamra
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My reward for peopling and course prep this week. ☺️ I am going to reread Middlemarch this year and savor it. I didn‘t want to suffer thru the tiny print of my mass market edition, so this is my treat.

I have I mentioned how much I love deckled edges?

BarkingMadRead It‘s so pretty!!! 10mo
Cuilin 😍 beautiful cover, love Middlemarch. 10mo
Ruthiella Beautiful edition! 😍 10mo
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LeahBergen I‘m a deckled edge fan, too! And definitely not a fan of mass market paperback print size. 😆 10mo
Aimeesue The calligraphy cover is pretty sweet! 10mo
rockpools 😍 10mo
merelybookish Beautiful edition! And enjoy. I reread it a few years ago. Such a good book. 10mo
batsy That is so lovely 😍 Enjoy the book, it's pretty brilliant. 10mo
kspenmoll Love that edition! I reread Middlemarch last year & so enjoyed it! 10mo
tpixie Gorgeous edition! What edition? Or where purchased? I love deckled edges! (edited) 10mo
Tamra @tpixie it‘s a Harper Legacy edition. ☺️ 10mo
tpixie @Tamra thx! So beautiful 🤩 Classics should be read that way. Maybe all books! (edited) 10mo
Tamra @tpixie I forgot to say I ordered from Amazon. My local Indie didn‘t have any copies at all! 10mo
tpixie @Tamra 😊 10mo
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Gleefulreader
Middlemarch (Revised) | George Eliot
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Pickpick

Pulled this off my pile of partially finished books and so happy I did. This story was an absolute delight. The many trials and small victories of the residents of Middlemarch, it is a perfect window into early 19th century England with all its contradictions.

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Pip2
Middlemarch (UK) | George Eliot

I read four more chapters of Middlemarch after reading Frankenstein and I can honestly say after reading a good, enjoyable read that Middlemarch is unduly long winded and a bore with no rationale to be so except for the authors own self conceit and pride to prove herself and her mastery of the English language which is an unnecessary feat when writing a novel for personal enjoyment. She should have wrote a text book at this point.

282Mikado “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results“. -Albert Einstien.

Don't go back again, Pip. It won't get better. ☠
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Pip2 @282Mikado what can I say, I‘m a glutton for punishment. Since we last spoke, I have finished another two chapters and I feel the novel has once again regressed into morass of despair and confusion where I now have questioned the publishers intent on bringing out such a calamity for the rest of the public to take in…Eliot I bet was the type that loved to hear herself talk at a party. (edited) 13mo
SamAnne I keep trying to finish Middlemarch and failing. I really just need to DNF. 13mo
Pip2 @SamAnne same. I don‘t recommend wasting your time as it is only taking away from great reads that you will better appreciate. 13mo
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Pip2
Middlemarch (UK) | George Eliot
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Bailedbailed

I‘ve read up to chapter 19, page 167 of this early 19th century provincial plot and could no longer push through another page. I found the premise behind provincial life dull and could not beat any further interest. I am going to start giving a book about 50 pages before I toss it. If it hasn‘t hooked me in that time and the reality is, if the author hasn‘t hooked me at that length, he or she really hasn‘t done their job.

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ravenlee
Middlemarch | George Elliot

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/george-eliot-biography-marr...

Here‘s an interesting article for all the #PemberLittens who struggled through…er…read…Middlemarch earlier this year. It‘s about George Eliot‘s view of marriage and how it differs from Jane Austen‘s, and compares to her own relationship.

BarkingMadRead Fun!! 14mo
SamAnne Checking this one out! 14mo
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JamieArc
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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Any other Jeopardy watchers who nailed the Middlemarch category tonight?? #pemberlittens

merelybookish Dream category!! 1y
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1y
Ruthiella I was participating in a pub quiz a few years ago when one of the categories was book plots and I nailed ‘em all! 1y
Leftcoastzen Me ! 👍👏😁 1y
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HettyG
Middlemarch | George Eliot
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My goodness, this book was a real project! I put it down for periods of time, but did manage to finish it through a combination of listening and print formats. I did like it, although truthfully I enjoyed Adam Bede much more. And now I feel like I‘ve had the George Eliot experience, and I‘m none to anxious to pick up any more books by her.

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CSeydel
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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#14books14weeks halfway point update …
As I suspected I got distracted reading book club and Camp Litsy selections. Not only have I let Middlemarch slide, but I only finished 3 of these books in the first 7 weeks 😳

I‘m going to have to step it up if I want to get close to finishing!

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CSeydel
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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#14books14weeks
Week 1 progress report: made it to chapter 6 of Middlemarch, yay

For those of your following along at home, some (maybe) bad news for my final total … my best-paying client just offered me a news feature due the first week of August, so I‘m going to be a lot busier this summer than I expected 😬

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JamieArc
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Mehso-so

This topped my list of books I was intimidated to read. I‘m sure I would have really disliked reading it if by myself but I came to quite enjoy my nightly ritual of reading a chapter and checking @BarkingMadRead ‘s post, hashtag, and comments. The pretty edition helped too 😊. While I would have needed to read this in an English course to be convinced of its merits, there were some little gems sprinkled in, like this last sentence that I loved.

JamieArc Also completed for March #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks 2y
BarkingMadRead Woohoo! You made it through, this was such a long one! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! I also wouldn't have made it through this one without the encouragement from @BarkingMadRead and the #HashtagBrigade!! 😂 2y
ReadingRachael I love that quote! 2y
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JamieArc
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So close to finishing Middlemarch, and this last sentence describes quite well how I‘ve read half of this book… 🫥. But #hashtagskeepmegoing

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keepingupwiththepenguins
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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Mehso-so

I feel like a lone reed, buffeted by the wind but rooted firm in my conviction that – like Anna Karenina – it‘s just okay. I‘m sure studying the novel would illuminate more of it, make it feel richer and more engaging, but as a casual reader… *shrug*. I didn‘t hate it, but I‘m glad to have put it behind me. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/middlemarch-george-eliot/

JamieArc I still have a couple hundred pages left to go, but so far, I am feeling the same way. 2y
annahenke I felt the same! 2y
Ruthiella I loved Middlemarch but felt the same about Anna Karenina! 2y
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JamieArc
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“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 it‘s emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the eldest inhabitants of 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.”

JamieArc I am determined to finish Middlemarch. Revisiting the #pemberlitten posts and hashtags after finishing each chapter keeps me going. But paragraphs like this are why I can‘t bail on a book. I‘ve reread this paragraph 10 times. 2y
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LitStephanie
Mehso-so

Oops, just realized I never posted a review after the #pemberlittens read. The prose is clever and often subtly funny, but I really had to slog through the first 2/3 of this book before I cared about ANYBODY, so it doesn't get a pick. Plus the misogyny, and I don't mean the times, I mean how Eliot describes women. The character development of Dori is my favorite part even though I despised her at first.

SamAnne I‘m still slogging through this one…. 2y
LitStephanie @SamAnne good luck! It actually gets good toward the end, although probably not good enough to be worth the slog. 2y
SamAnne @litstephanie yeah… and I have so many good books lined up to read right now! 2y
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LitStephanie @SamAnne how much, percentage-wise, do you have left for Middlemarch? 2y
SamAnne @LitStephanie a little more than a third…. 2y
LitStephanie @SamAnne oh just quit! 🤣 2y
SamAnne @LitStephanie @Rubyslipperreads hah! Yes….maybe DNF. But I have enjoyed the humor. But not as much as I‘m enjoying the biting humor in Birman Wood! 2y
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bookishbitch
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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I learned a while ago that George Eliot was a pen name for Mary Ann Evans Cross. Because of that it immediately went into my tbr pile. I'm finally getting around to starting it.

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kwmg40
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I loved this brilliant examination of small-town English life in the 1800's, and reading it was made especially enjoyable with the chapter-a-day read-along with the #pemberlittens. Thank you @BarkingMadRead for hosting!

BarkingMadRead I‘m glad you liked it! 2y
batsy One of my favourites! ❤️ 2y
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peanutnine
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Wow what a ride this was. For such a long book, there's really not much plot 😅 I can honestly say that if I tried to read this on my own I probably wouldn't have gotten through it, but reading a chapter a day with the #pemberlittens made it enjoyable and something I looked forward to each morning! It felt like a soap opera with all the small town drama and the characters were not really loveable but I was invested in their lives
@BarkingMadRead

TheBookHippie I would have never finished! 2y
Lizpixie 🙌🎉 2y
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eeclayton
Middlemarch | George Elliot
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I didn't exactly like Middlemarch but I did appreciate the author's observations about life in a small town, people's expectations and especially marriages. In many books, the plot ends with a marriage, and we consider that a happy ending, but we don't get to see what happens after the wedding. It was interesting here to look at some of the ways marriages may fall apart or at least prove to be very different from what the husband and wife expected

eeclayton Thanks for @BarkingMadRead for leading the #pemberlittens buddy read, without which I might have never finished this book 😁 2y
BarkingMadRead I feel this in my soul, y‘all kept me going as well! Our next read should be better lol 2y
Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead if not better than shorter! @eeclayton good point about seeing what happens after marriage. 2y
eeclayton @BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk after Villette and this, I think we all deserve a read that is both better and shorter 😂 2y
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TheAromaofBooks
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Mehso-so

My word, what a book! I can see why this one has never been as popular as Austen's novels. The characters here were not particularly likable or relatable, almost nothing happens, and I didn't particularly hold out any hope for the long-term happiness of anyone haha I am glad to have read this classic, but it is way too long for the amount of story it contains. Never would have made it through without snarky hashtags from @BarkingMadRead !! ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Thank you so much for hosting this buddy read! (I think... on the other hand, that's 923 pages of my life I'll never get back 😂)

#atleastIcansayIvereadit
#MtTBR
#FourFoursin23 - Three-Way Screenplay @lauredhel
#ChunksterChallenge2023 @Amiable
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Amiable Yay! 💃🏻🕺🎉 2y
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BarkingMadRead I‘ve said this on a few posts by you Pemberlittens, I gave this a pick, but it‘s a soft pick. This could have been so much shorter and still conveyed everything George wanted to convey 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y
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TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead I agree, was it to make a point? We get it people are insufferable🤣😅😵‍💫👑😅🤷🏻‍♀️🙄😬 #WEDIDIT #WHERESOURTROPHY 2y
IndoorDame @TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead Yes!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆for everyone! We earned them! 2y
ravenlee I think this was an ultramarathon, or one of those endurance trail run things! 2y
BarkingMadRead @ravenlee in the ultra world there is a challenge called the Barkley Marathons. This was a Barkley for sure. 2y
Bookwormjillk Congrats all, and thanks @barkingmadread . I liked the beginning of this book so much better than the end. I think soft pick is a fair rating. 2y
TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead I agree this was a Barkley 2y
ravenlee Wow, I‘ve never heard of the Barkley Marathons - which is funny, as I married a Barkley (no relation, I think) and my in-laws live in Tennessee. My SIL and her husband frequent Frozen Head on their hiking expeditions. Weird! 2y
Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead the Barkley is wild! 2y
CoffeeNBooks Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about this book at this point. Parts of it were interesting, parts of it weren't. I have a lot of love for many of the classics, but this one not so much. @BarkingMadRead - I agree that Eliot could have made her point with a shorter book. 🤔 2y
TheAromaofBooks I would never have made it through without your hashtags @BarkingMadRead !!! I can see why this has never been as popular as Austen's novels. None of these characters were particularly likable or relatable - definitely don't see myself daydreaming about any of the men I met in these pages! 😂 2y
BarkingMadRead @TheAromaofBooks not a Darcy to be found 🙄 I wouldn‘t want any of these dudes 🤣 2y
TheAromaofBooks @BarkingMadRead - Literally none! And honestly I didn't think any of the women were particularly prizes either! 😆 2y
Clare-Dragonfly I guess nobody loves Fred and Mary like I do? 😅 I definitely wouldn‘t say I love this book—Rosamond and Lydgate give me too much anxiety—but Fred and Mary!!! 2y
kwmg40 Thanks for hosting, @BarkingMadRead! I loved the novel, as well as the commentary from everyone here. 2y
JamieArc Congrats to you all! 🎉🎉. I got quite behind when I didn‘t want to take this chunkster on vacation, but I will carry on and look forward to each chapter‘s post as a reward! 2y
BarkingMadRead @kwmg40 hooray!!!!! @JamieArc I wouldn‘t want to lug that thing anywhere either! 2y
Bklover Ahhhh, this was fun! And long. Really enjoyed reading this with all of you. And @BarkingMadRead ❤️❤️❤️❤️🏆 2y
TheBookHippie @Bklover So loooong.. 2y
TheBookHippie @JamieArc the posts are the best part 😅🤫🤣🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y
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Bookwormjillk Fred!!!! 2y
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Bklover Favorite Mary quote: “I should never like scolding anyone else so well; and that is a point to be thought of in a husband “. 2y
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk 🎉🎉🎉🎉 2y
TheBookHippie @Bklover 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼♥️ 2y
TheBookHippie FRED!!! 2y
Bookwormjillk Confession: I finished today 2y
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk @BarkingMadRead I‘m drawing it out because I‘m parochial school trained 🤣🤣🤣🤣😬 2y
Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie c‘mon everyone else is reading it 2y
BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie 🤣🤣🤣🤣 2y
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk ah but does @BarkingMadRead have a ruler that swats hands 😵‍💫😅 I‘m too old for detention 🤣🤫 2y
Clare-Dragonfly Fred 🥰 2y
Clare-Dragonfly @Bklover Yes! I think that‘s part of why Fred and Mary are a perfect couple to me—they remind me of Eilonwy/Taran and of course of Aravis/Shasta (aka Cor). 2y
LitStephanie But Fred never paid Mary's dad back, right? 2y
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Daisey
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I finished the last few fairly short chapters this morning. I just couldn‘t stick to the #ChapterADay any longer. I didn‘t love this book, but I also think it might have been better if I‘d read it more straight through. It‘s still a light pick because I think it was an interesting story of several characters, and I was always curious to know what would happen to them.

#PemberLittens #audiobook #1001books

Daisey Thanks again to @BarkingMadRead for another great readalong and fantastic hashtags that kept me amused when I was frustrated with the book. 2y
IndoorDame What an awesome cover image! 2y
BarkingMadRead I definitely think this one could have been shorter and still gotten the point across. This one was very Dickensian 🤣 2y
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TheAromaofBooks Sir James is being a bit dog-in-the-manger-ish, isn't he?? 2y
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BarkingMadRead Sir James is an ass 🤣 2y
IndoorDame They‘re being awful! Especially James!!! 😡🤬 2y
Bookwormjillk She‘d be better off without James and Kitty. Ugh, so self centered. 2y
CoffeeNBooks Sir James and Celia are acting like petulant little children. 🙄 @Bookwormjillk - I agree she'd be better off without them! 2y
LitStephanie I had a hard time following the blah blah politics. I think this book was much more interesting to read by British contemporaries. Dodo's second husband is 100% superior to her first and I was happy it worked out! 2y
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Well, I am pretty proud of myself. Read this a chapter a day with @BarkingMadRead whose hashtags could get me through any book at all. What a fun experience this was, and thank you soooo much, my friend. ❤️
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#pemberlittens #whatsnext #whatsafterthat #youcanneverstop #justkiddingsortof

KristiAhlers Wasn't it a good read? 2y
Ruthiella Well done! 👍 2y
BarkingMadRead I‘m so glad you liked…. My hashtags 🤣 I feel like she could have cut that book in half and still said the same stuff 🤣🤣 2y
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Bklover @KristiAhlers Yes, it was! Don‘t know that I‘d have gotten through it without the buddy read though. 😉 2y
Bklover @Ruthiella Thanks! It inspires me to tackle more of the classic chunksters. I just have to get @BarkingMadRead to do lots more buddyreads😂🤣😂🤣 2y
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