heyheybooks 's review for:

Middlemarch by George Eliot

4.0

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I finished!! Reading this was a nearly half year long project that I originally anticipated would take 8 weeks. 100 pages per week? Easy! Well, not so much. Starting out, this was a dense book, and I quickly turned to chapter summaries to help me understand what I just read. This did get easier but it was usually difficult for me to focus on this book in the evening, and was mostly read in the morning with coffee in hand. Even through the end, I would misread a sentence and end up misunderstanding a plot point. I do wish I had been able to complete this in a more compact period, because the beginning of this book feels like so very long ago. That said, I did really enjoy the book and it had some very good dramatic moments around the middle and the end. I don’t know that I’d agree it’s the best English novel of all time, but if you like hefty English lit, I recommend it.

I buddy-read this with my boyfriend, and also followed along with the Literary Disco podcast episodes from this summer.