tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308674271138009565.post2501072013215705057..comments2023-02-18T10:02:33.509-06:00Comments on book musings: MiddlemarchAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06784890975490896640noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308674271138009565.post-18053034221593284682013-11-29T21:39:52.384-06:002013-11-29T21:39:52.384-06:00"een audible version"--thinking in Dutch..."een audible version"--thinking in Dutch? :)<br /><br />I don't usually get as far as jumpstarts, because I usually don't continue with a book I don't like the beginning of. The only exception I can think of is The Book Thief. I don't generally care for "gimmicks" such as Death as the narrator, but I stuck with it until it sucked me in, then I couldn't put it down. Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06784890975490896640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308674271138009565.post-78490622452029541842013-11-29T06:15:17.856-06:002013-11-29T06:15:17.856-06:00I had a difficult time getting throught this book...I had a difficult time getting throught this book. I needed een audible version playing in my earphones and the book in front of me. I guess I just needed a jumpstart because I did enjoy the read. Have you ever needed a jumpstart as I did to get into a book?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308674271138009565.post-59153782591403154852013-11-28T19:49:59.829-06:002013-11-28T19:49:59.829-06:00Dorothea reminds me of the heroine of The Tenant o...Dorothea reminds me of the heroine of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall--a woman who is absolutely saintly in forbearance with her alcoholic husband. But in that book, the woman was more of a device than a character. She needed to be saintly in order for readers to accept the message of the book--that women deserve self-determination even to the point of leaving a marriage; a message that was presumably rather shocking at the time. Dorothea, however, doesn't seem to me to be the mouthpiece for an authorial agenda. I couldn't quite decide how the author/narrator meant for me to feel about Dorothea's treatment of her first husband.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06784890975490896640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308674271138009565.post-66768077155524458152013-11-23T13:53:49.500-06:002013-11-23T13:53:49.500-06:00You pose an interesting question regarding the wom...You pose an interesting question regarding the women in Middlemarch and Dorothea in particular. While she is one of my favorite heroines I am at a loss to understand her devotion to that cold spiteful man, Casaubon, given her otherwise intelligent behavior. The vision of her in tears while on her honeymoon in Rome is one that I will never forget.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561320676355168336noreply@blogger.com