Middlemarch
George Eliot
I finished it, and oh, I'm glad I did. It was huge and complicated and beautiful and moving and incredibly wise - George Eliot is just astonishingly astute and observant and wise and compassionate, and Dorothea is one of the most vivid characters I've ever read - morally and emotionally and physically, particularly physically.
It was all interweaving storylines and funny and tragic and strong female characters and this amazing omniscient even-handedness and at one point I cried and I never do that. But don't tell anyone I did.
The ending kind of broke my heart but was happy and left me satisfied but - it is real, you know? Believable. Awesome. I forgive Eliot the weird gestures she gave Ladislaw, with all his head-tossing.
And man am I glad I finally finished.
I finished it, and oh, I'm glad I did. It was huge and complicated and beautiful and moving and incredibly wise - George Eliot is just astonishingly astute and observant and wise and compassionate, and Dorothea is one of the most vivid characters I've ever read - morally and emotionally and physically, particularly physically.
It was all interweaving storylines and funny and tragic and strong female characters and this amazing omniscient even-handedness and at one point I cried and I never do that. But don't tell anyone I did.
The ending kind of broke my heart but was happy and left me satisfied but - it is real, you know? Believable. Awesome. I forgive Eliot the weird gestures she gave Ladislaw, with all his head-tossing.
And man am I glad I finally finished.
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