This channel is a new favorite of mine in the Booktube universe!!! Your intelligent critiques, witty quips and love/passion for reading 📚 put a BIG smile to my face- thank you so much for that!!!!! 😀 On a separate note, your setup/interior design aesthetic is GORGEOUS!!!!! The beautiful lamp, the cozy, comfy green throw, the atumnal pillows, the lovely table- I simply LOVE it!!!!! Keep the wonderful content coming and until next time, sensational Mr. Joe!!!!! ✨ 🎉 😀
Oh well this is too much for a booktube newbie to take! You can thank my wealthy heiress wife for setting me up in such grandeur! I'm only just getting started :)
The envy I have for people who are yet to read the books I love! How I wish her brilliance could be unknown to me so that I could live it all over again!
@@JoeSpivey02 oh Joe, I do so agree. I'd love to come fresh to Middlemarch and all of Miss Eliot's other books, Trollope, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Byron, Wordworth, and Coleridge all over again, but then I'd have missed out on the many rereads
Good Review, though unknown why Mr. Spivey calls this a finger wagger compared to Middlemarch, which is one gigantic didactic monster first word to last. Very little of that here. Romola is the #1 novel written by my account. Musil's Man w/o Qualities #2. Deronda, then Against the Day.
It’s excellent in places. You can see the future writer of Middlemarch throughout. She learnt to stick to the close and personal, which was what she was best at!
This channel is a new favorite of mine in the Booktube universe!!! Your intelligent critiques, witty quips and love/passion for reading 📚 put a BIG smile to my face- thank you so much for that!!!!! 😀 On a separate note, your setup/interior design aesthetic is GORGEOUS!!!!! The beautiful lamp, the cozy, comfy green throw, the atumnal pillows, the lovely table- I simply LOVE it!!!!! Keep the wonderful content coming and until next time, sensational Mr. Joe!!!!! ✨ 🎉 😀
Oh well this is too much for a booktube newbie to take! You can thank my wealthy heiress wife for setting me up in such grandeur! I'm only just getting started :)
I wonder if his arm ever gets tired
I've not read Romola, but it is the last Eliot to read. Your video has encouraged me to read it ASAP., thanks.
The envy I have for people who are yet to read the books I love! How I wish her brilliance could be unknown to me so that I could live it all over again!
@@JoeSpivey02 oh Joe, I do so agree. I'd love to come fresh to Middlemarch and all of Miss Eliot's other books, Trollope, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hardy, Byron, Wordworth, and Coleridge all over again, but then I'd have missed out on the many rereads
Good Review, though unknown why Mr. Spivey calls this a finger wagger compared to Middlemarch, which is one gigantic didactic monster first word to last. Very little of that here. Romola is the #1 novel written by my account. Musil's Man w/o Qualities #2. Deronda, then Against the Day.
Ungainly situation is right. I enjoyed knowing about this Eliot novel. I just read Middlemarch for the first time this year!
It’s excellent in places. You can see the future writer of Middlemarch throughout. She learnt to stick to the close and personal, which was what she was best at!
@@JoeSpivey02 , it's cool when you read an author's work, before their "great" work. It can be an interesting project.