#Trollopeing #BandOfTrollopes how do you know you are reading a Victorian novel ? When the author says this novel is about Dr.Thorne but the background means you don‘t really meet the character till chapter 3 ! I borrowed ebook cuz I have a dozen Trollopes in the house yet none are Dr.Thorne!
tokorowilliamwallace I still need to get to my recently-acquired Barchester Towers! I love the infamous Victorian Germanic sentence! And I love background context, so ones that get lengthy, bogged down, and rambling are my thing! But also my reading attention is poor. But it's my communication style. 2y
batsy I'm going to try to dive in when I have cleared some time for this. Hopefully by next week or into early June 😬 I'm so glad I have a physical copy of this but I realise I don't own the remaining books in the Chronicles and with no easy way to obtain them 😭 #RIPBookDepository 2y
Liz_M Apparently AT asked his brother to suggest a plot. The brother came up with Mary's background and some other legal details which come into play later. So there needed to be more scene setting for this one, rather than just starting with Dr. Thorne or the Greshams. 2y
Leftcoastzen @batsy I thought of you when I heard they were closing, I think it must be hard to find the books you like . Every book distributor or store lost is sad , but more devastating some places more than others. 2y
Leftcoastzen @tokorowilliamwallace 😁sometimes my modern brain just doesn‘t want to read older fiction, but usually, I lock in, shift gears and love it. 2y
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