I just finished Middlemarch

By luckywindow1990

I really want to talk to everyone about this—have you read it yet? And did you feel like it changed you at all? One thing I kept noticing is how it talks about women and their drive. It’s kind of funny because whenever the author says women are smart or strong, she usually ends the thought with some little qualifier like “in a woman’s way.” Obviously it’d be kind of anachronistic to expect the book to be super straightforward about women back then, but still, it’s comforting to see that women’s inner lives and what motivates them seem pretty much the same years later. I’m also already looking forward to rereading it once I’m a bit more removed from it, so I can see it with fresher eyes.