wagmore 's review for:

Middlemarch by George Eliot
4.0

This is the second book I read on my Kindle. I had tried to read it several times over the years, but wasn't ever able to get very far. I think primarily due to the vocabulary. On almost every page, I had to stop to look up at least on word. Along comes the Kindle, and with the more convenient ability to look up words that it has, I was able to finally finish the book.

As to the book itself--it's long. It's kind of amazing that the mores, the speech, the dress were those of less than a 150 years ago. But it was worth the effort to get a glimpse into that time and that culture.