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challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Middlemarch by George Eliot is the best book I’ve ever read. I could spend paragraphs upon paragraphs expounding on how spectacular, transcendent, and astonishingly perfect this book is. Or, I can accept that I don’t have the words to do it justice, and remain quietly thankful that this book exists and that I’m alive to read (and re-read) it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Classism
Minor: Antisemitism
Gambling
emotional
funny
hopeful
slow-paced
Buoyed me through a hard period and made me think so much about what it means to live a good life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Miscarriage
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Antisemitism
Minor: Alcoholism
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Okay, wow. I enjoyed this book a lot more than it seems other people do. It's my favorite college professor's favorite book, and she regularly brought it up in classes, so it's been on my tbr list for years. I didn't know how long or intricate it was, but I'm glad I didn't know anything really going in.
Halfway through I had to make a list of characters I actually liked, since several of them fell into a category of something like "I root for them in spite of not really liking them." But it all progressed in a much better way than I thought it would.
Halfway through I had to make a list of characters I actually liked, since several of them fell into a category of something like "I root for them in spite of not really liking them." But it all progressed in a much better way than I thought it would.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Drug use, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Murder
These are just the more specific content warnings I wrote down while reading the book: Anti-Romani slurs, antisemitism, racial slurs, Antiziganism, anti-Romanyism, miscarriage, illness, death, medical content, drug use, gambling, ableism