On Middlemarch
13 days ago
dorothea's final choice will frustrate some readers but eliot earns every bit of it, and somehow it feels true rather than diminished
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Somewhere between classics and contemporary. Always mid-stack.
On Middlemarch
13 days ago
dorothea's final choice will frustrate some readers but eliot earns every bit of it, and somehow it feels true rather than diminished
On Gilead
15 days ago
john ames writing letters to his young son he'll never see grow up — the tenderness here is almost unbearable
On Outline
1 months ago
the man on the plane who keeps reappearing — his stories about his marriages feel like a funhouse mirror held up to something unspoken
On Pnin
1 months ago
pnin's relationship with his ex-wife liza is so loaded — every mention of her carries this whole history of longing and quiet damage