Re-opening soon
Posted on: October 14, 2008
- In: Books | Fiction | General | Literature
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I am ready to return into literature’s welcoming bosom. As a sign that I made the right decision, the gods saw fit to give The Mill on The Floss the kind of soul wrenching end that left me sobbing. I haven’t done that since Andre Dubus’ “Rose” (a short story) which was years ago. Every one fusses about Middlemarch but perhaps one ought to take a closer look at my new favourite? I am now convinced that Eliot deserves to be immortalised in marble — I hope there’s a statue I can visit somewhere.
Middlemarch is her best so I’ll get to it some time but…is it another Fallen Woman story? My heart can’t take any more of those at present. I may swerve into Silas Marner instead. That’s another one of her books that I started to read in my younger days but never finished.
14 Responses to "Re-opening soon"
It’s so nice to see you back! I’ve only ever read Middlemarch (which I loved). I’m so bad at committing myself to big 19th century chunksters, but I really should include them in my reading more often.
Definitely good news to see your post – looking forward to the conversation starting up again. And your new site design is great.
I loved Middlemarch and have Mill on the Floss waiting for me on a shelf downstairs…
HOORAY!! You are alive! I’ve missed your awesome bookishness! See >>> loads of !!!!!! means I’m excited!(<there is another one)
So good to have you back! I’ve been reading David Markson’s The Last Novel and thought of you when I saw this:
“Two pages of The Mill on the Floss are enough to start me crying.
Said Proust.”
Also:
“The first English novel for adults, Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch.”
IMANI !!!!!!! Welcome back… I missed your insightful and lyrical writing!!!
I am delighted that I found this weblog, precisely the right information that I was looking for!



October 14, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Yay! So glad you are returning! And a whole new blog look too! Isn’t Mill on the Floss wonderful? It left me crying at the end too.