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February 2017: George Eliot

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1sweetiegherkin
Fév 7, 2017, 12:41 pm

I'm still in shock that this is true, but it's already February! And has been for a week!!

This month we'll be reading George Eliot. Has anyone started on their read already??

2Yells
Fév 11, 2017, 4:08 pm

I haven't read either Adam Bede or Mill on the Floss. Maybe I will give one of them a go.

3rainpebble
Modifié : Mar 19, 2017, 12:05 pm

I managed a reread of an Eliot which I love but most dislike. My thoughts & comments on:


The Lifted Veil by George Eliot; (4 1/2*)

I did not find this to be a lovely book, but I do find that my opinion of this book remains drastically different from most L.T. readers of the book.
I thought it quite brilliant. As I read, I felt myself looking into the man's mind and found that I momentarily took on his mental persona as well. I was not bored. I was not piqued. I was not grossed out. The book did not depress me nor did it make me nervous or anxious. I was nothing but a person within another person's ill mind. There was very little within the book that was literal and not simply in his mind.
Yes, I thought it very different and as I said rather brilliant.
I shall, most likely, be the only one here with this opinion. But then too, I am probably the only one here who has been on a psyche ward for depression, anxiety and panic attack as well. I cannot say if that colored my reading of this book.

4rainpebble
Mar 19, 2017, 12:06 pm

Do we have a March thread set up yet & I just missed it, perhaps? Just curious. Thx.