violet’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

mrs cadwallader says such out-of-pocket things half the time and the other half she's like objectively correct it's really jarring

‘what i think, dodo […] is that mr casubon was spiteful. i never did like him, and james never did. i think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful.’ SO TRUE CELIA

it rather seems to me the vincy family inheritance is poor financial decision-making. sad!

mr brooke is so astoundingly incompetent. what is even happening

guess i underestimated how much great comet's prologue and russian usage of patronymics helped me remember the names of w&p characters. girl who the hell are all these middlemarchers

dorothea brooke and marya bolkonskaya would be really good friends i think