My Life in Middlemarch
My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead pretends to be writing a riff on her own life as it echoes various Middlemarch themes, but in truth she has annotated George Eliot’s words while referencing a whole host of other well-known authors as well. The result is what I might describe as a book of marginalia, the […]
Novels We’ve Been Able to Avoid Reading
A note to my fellow book club members and others who have books they have cleverly avoided reading: We hearty readers of the Clayton Community Library Book Club in Clayton, California bravely picked George Eliot’s Middlemarch for our July read. We picked it among, and then in spite of, groans, moans and whimpering about its […]