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I first read Madame Bovary in my late teens. At the time, I found Emma unlikeable and annoying, and didn’t think much of Charles. Reading it now, my heart aches for them both, and the tragedy and sadness of the story is really hitting me.

The sexual frankness of this book is kind of amazing

I admit I bought this because of the Discourse and the Drama, but so far I’m really enjoying it as a book in itself. Lindy West is a really striking and thoughtful writer (occasional 2010 blog-isms aside).

Lydgate is kind of like the Timothée Chalamet of Middlemarch

Making my way through, slowly but surely. Wilkerson’s rich prose and astounding wealth of detail seems to call for it.

Agnes Grey is such a hater, it’s kind of unintentionally hilarious. In the space of 3 pages she describes her charges as “barbarously ignorant, indocile, careless, and irrational,” “boisterous, unruly, unprincipled, untaught, unreachable,” and “pettish, cowardly, capricious, selfish” respectively. Like damn girl, tell us how you really feel!

Ready to wrap this thing up!