powerfulanne 's review for:

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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36 hours of listening in 21 days -- PHEW! This has been on my to-read list for a while, and what better time to read than a summer made unexpectedly low-key by quarantine? I think I need to let this one marinate for a little before I decide whether I liked it fine or I liked it a lot. I enjoyed Eliot's on-the-nose observations and arch narrative voice, but this book was really quite long. I couldn't help but feel I could get a similar experience out of Austen or Trollope for less commitment, but that seems like a lazy critique. In any event, I'm glad I read it now because that means I can revisit it in ten or twenty years; I get the sense that it's a book that rewards re-reading at different points in one's life.