These chapters exhausted me. For a few times, I plucked my hair and asked myself why I should start this book in the first place. All those five-line long sentences!😵 Is it a fashion of the 19th

Every year I feel a bit under the weather in the plum season, when everything else seems to thrive (trees, mosquitoes) and the human body strives. This year we’re having a consecutive two-week rainy

Upon the latest two chapters, my new question is "are Dodo and Rosamond feminists?" Very interestingly, none of them sees marriage as a means to realize love. They are more likely to believe that

My feelings and views towards this book and its main characters have changed a lot after reading some new chapters in the last few days. I believe the writer knows too well how the readers would

It has been a while since last time we visited the Yangpu area. I spent my university life there, but after graduation I rarely go back. This area is a bit sleepy nowadays, with an aging population

I am proceeding to Chapter 5 today and definitely would not describe reading Middlemarch as a pleasant experience. Being clearly aware that George Eliot was trying to record the life of that period