Tag: George Eliot

• Top Ten Tuesday: Great Quotes from Books I Read this Year

  November 17, 2015

  Poetry

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  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic was to pick some of our favorite quotes from books we’ve read this year. So I went back through some of the books I read this year, and here’s what I came up with. Some books…

• 2015 Women Writers Reading Challenge Book #14: Middlemarch by George Eliot

  April 7, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  This book requires a bit of effort and dedication; it’s not for the faint of heat. The writing is witty, and the characters are fully fleshed. You are totally immersed in the world of the 1830s with all its trials and tribulations. The closest thing I can compare this book to is Jane Austen’s Emma,…

• 2015 Women Writers Reading Challenge–Book #2: The Lifted Veil by George Eliot

  January 20, 2015

  Reading Challenge

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  This book was a recommendation from one of my favorite college professors (I had a bunch of favorites, but Professor Freeman was something special). She was trimming down her library, preparing for a move to the east coast, and she invited everyone to come to her office and take a couple books. I chose this…