You’re my new favourite channel. Thanks to you, I was able to find my lost love for books. Thank you for sharing your passion for books with us. Even when you don’t see it, your videos are (quietly and positively) influencing someone somewhere.
@@ProseAndPetticoats I’m currently reading John Keats’ poems, and will be reading Dracula in October. I’ve never had the chance to read it but now I’m ready ❤️
Really good start! I've read 2 chapters of Middlemarch. It is my habit to approach books directly at first and avoid outside commentary until I've at least started to form my own impressions. Your discussion was just right! Gave me some paths to think about without making pronouncements. I will be reading Middlemarch with a group. We read War and Peace together a few years ago and are working our way through other big, scary books. Very rewarding! So, thanks for your comments!
Middlemarch is the first George Eliot 's novel I read and I loved it 😀 ! Since then, I read other novels and short stories by George Eliot and she is now one of my favorite Victorian era's novelist (with Anne Brontë) 😊
Hello Emmelie! I hope you are doing well! Very interesting video and informative. I need to read more George Eliot. Romola was another book of hers I read and I really enjoyed that one. I look forward to your next video. Have a great week! 😀
Thank you for this lovely review. Even if you need patience to read this book - it is so rewarding. I have read Middlemarch last year and followed the original time intervals in which is was published. So I read about 160 sides per two months in 13 months. I always read on Weekends and that gave me the feeling that I visited a village every Saturday, I lived in Middlemarch for a year. Nowadays it is all still very present in my mind, the characters are like friends and family.
❤ This was a great video! I loved to read it with your reading club and it was one of the best books I ever read! I’m looking forward to our next read!
Hi Emmelie! Your research on the author and on the book were so good! I've checked out this book but didn't really attract me at first, but I will definitely keep the author's name in mind. See you next week!
Phenomenal review, Emmelie! You mention finding the hints of medical history intriguing. I recently purchased the book The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter. I've read a bit of the opening chapters, and it is thus far a fantastically-written and comprehensive overview of medical history. You may appreciate it (quite lengthy, though)!
"Was never true love loved in vain, for truest love is highest gain. No art can make it: it must spring. Where elements are fostering. So in heavens's spot and hour Springs the little native flower, Downward root and upward eye, Shapen by the earth and sky" George Eliot I love her writing style. I truly enjoyed Middlemarch.
I completely agree with your comparison of Eliot to Tolstoy. Both of them had the unique ability to plumb the depths of the human psyche - more so than any other novelists I’ve read. Thank you for your excellent analysis!
The life of clergy was one of the more interesting things I'm taking away from this book. Celibacy is a thing where I live, it was so weird to observe how Fred was at some point set to compete with Farebrother lol btw every time you mention Les Miserables I envy your pronunciation
Yes, same here. I was also confused for a moment, but then remembered that Farebrother could indeed marry... ;) Ha. There are some advantages to having French as a second language 😂
Thanks for this Emmelie. You always do great reviews! I have never read Middlemarch and I'm not sure if this would be for me. However that's okay as we are all different. Happy reading!🙂
I still have to read Middlemarch since it is a glaring gap in my reading of Victorian literature. I have read The Mill on the Floss, however, and quite honestly, I found it challenging to get through and really quite dreary. Perhaps Middlemarch is better?
It depends on what you found challenging. I had read Silas Marner (and found it difficult), and it made me a little afraid to start Middlemarch. I found it to be a completely different experience. Can't say anything about Mill, because I haven't read it (yet) 😇
Dorothea is the reason I placed this book back on my shelf. I couldn't stand her and hated being in her negative thoughts. Now, I have just recently heard, that the book goes into other character's stories, so I'm thinking about picking it back up. Does Dorothea's character mature or does she stay hateful?
I can see why Dorothea's character can bother a reader to the point of giving up. Her progress is a slow one, but by the end of the novel, she does change and is transformed. There are indeed other storylines you might enjoy. It always switches :) I find it hard to say "just push yourself through book I", because her storyline remains important throughout the novel.
I stopped reading because of Dorothea too, she was insufferable in the beginning, and that leads her to a bad marriage with conviction. But that's where the real story begins, how her character develops, what she endures, and how much she changes is also astonishing.
I tried reading Middlemarch quite a few years ago but got bored with it. However, I’m going to give it a new fresh try - you inspired me (again). Thanks also for the important characters list😊
Hi Emmelie... Thank you for doing a book review without spoilers since Middlemarch is on my TBR. I'm looking forward to the storyline. Your fluffy friend is quickly trying to become a star on your UA-cam channel. Can I ask your cat's name?
Footnotes...? Middlemarch has footnotes? I've watched a number of Middlemarch-focused videos, and I think you're the first to mention footnotes. I've just started reading Middlemarch. I don't have the edition you have, but rather, the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (the one with the foreward by Rebecca Mead). I actually also have the Everman's Library Classics, but I'm reading the Mead one.
I am surprised that your editions do not have footnotes. I was glad they were there - they helped me understand all the references she made (and there are many). I hope you will enjoy Middlemarch. Happy reading!
@@ProseAndPetticoats Oh, I didn't check to see if there were footnotes. I'm still early in the novel, so I may not have arrived at the first footnote.... ...Alright, I just flipped through the Penguin Classics Deluxe (the deckled edges didn't help) and the Everyman's (which I misspelled earlier), and didn't see any footnotes (or endnotes at the back). It may be that if the footnotes are sparse, they may be sprinkled throughout, and I might have not seen them. In any case, I guess that if I want the full reading experience, I'll have to consider getting the edition you have.
I’ve only ever seen the TV mini series so know the story, but I’m making my way through the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s “Great Books of the Western World” Series, & it’s in the second edition! Unfortunately the first edition had no female writers, but they fixed that in the 2nd edition… Looking forward to reading it!
@@ProseAndPetticoats 😄 no, the 1st edition is 54 volumes (published in 1952), the 2nd is 60 (published in the 90’s with updates). But covers all major “western” works in time from Homer to Freud, including all of Shakespeare, & War & Peace, etc. All major works of history, philosophy, science and literature. The idea was to give everyone access to a liberal education, and includes some (at the time) harder to get scientific papers like Galileo’s theories. You’ve probably read quite a few of the literature volumes, but you can dig in to the others to see how ideas influenced thought at the time! It’s a lifelong project really to get through them all, and you can find the pdfs of all 1st edition volumes for free online…
Anyone who can do a great analysis video of "Middlemarch" earns my immediate respect.
You’re my new favourite channel. Thanks to you, I was able to find my lost love for books. Thank you for sharing your passion for books with us. Even when you don’t see it, your videos are (quietly and positively) influencing someone somewhere.
This is such an amazing comment. Thank you so much - this means a lot 🥹 I'm happy you found your love for books again! What are you reading?
@@ProseAndPetticoats I’m currently reading John Keats’ poems, and will be reading Dracula in October. I’ve never had the chance to read it but now I’m ready ❤️
Really good start! I've read 2 chapters of Middlemarch. It is my habit to approach books directly at first and avoid outside commentary until I've at least started to form my own impressions. Your discussion was just right! Gave me some paths to think about without making pronouncements. I will be reading Middlemarch with a group. We read War and Peace together a few years ago and are working our way through other big, scary books. Very rewarding! So, thanks for your comments!
That's amazing. Happy reading! It's always a great idea to tackle bigger books with other readers.
I had to add this to watch later! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts after I complete my own reading!!
Middlemarch is the first George Eliot 's novel I read and I loved it 😀 ! Since then, I read other novels and short stories by George Eliot and she is now one of my favorite Victorian era's novelist (with Anne Brontë) 😊
Do you have a favourite novel written by Anne Brontë? I've only read Wildfell Hall and it blew me away. 🥰
@@ProseAndPetticoats Yes, my favorite one is "Agnes Grey" 😀. I read the tenant of Wildfell Hall too and I liked it but not as much as Agnes Grey
@@gladouhills9039 I will read Agnes next 👀
Hello Emmelie! I hope you are doing well! Very interesting video and informative. I need to read more George Eliot. Romola was another book of hers I read and I really enjoyed that one. I look forward to your next video. Have a great week! 😀
I'm excited to read all her other works! Thanks, David 🥰
Thank you for this lovely review. Even if you need patience to read this book - it is so rewarding. I have read Middlemarch last year and followed the original time intervals in which is was published. So I read about 160 sides per two months in 13 months. I always read on Weekends and that gave me the feeling that I visited a village every Saturday, I lived in Middlemarch for a year. Nowadays it is all still very present in my mind, the characters are like friends and family.
I agree that it is a rewarding read. I'm happy you enjoyed it so much!
❤ This was a great video! I loved to read it with your reading club and it was one of the best books I ever read! I’m looking forward to our next read!
It was such a great one to discuss. Thanks for joining 😍
Hi Emmelie!
Your research on the author and on the book were so good! I've checked out this book but didn't really attract me at first, but I will definitely keep the author's name in mind.
See you next week!
Thank you so much! 🥰
Phenomenal review, Emmelie! You mention finding the hints of medical history intriguing. I recently purchased the book The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter. I've read a bit of the opening chapters, and it is thus far a fantastically-written and comprehensive overview of medical history. You may appreciate it (quite lengthy, though)!
That's a great recommendation, for I am indeed extremely interested in anything medical. Will be checking it out 🥰 Thank you, Ruben!
"Was never true love loved in vain,
for truest love is highest gain.
No art can make it: it must spring.
Where elements are fostering.
So in heavens's spot and hour
Springs the little native flower,
Downward root and upward eye,
Shapen by the earth and sky"
George Eliot
I love her writing style. I truly enjoyed Middlemarch.
Her writing is phenomenal!
is is!
Finished this weekend and LOVED it. I loved AK by Tolstoy so no surprises there. Lovely review!
That is GREAT news! 😍
Keep doing your best work 💓
I completely agree with your comparison of Eliot to Tolstoy. Both of them had the unique ability to plumb the depths of the human psyche - more so than any other novelists I’ve read. Thank you for your excellent analysis!
@@rmoriart7655 Yay! Thank you so much 🥰
Casaubon's letter of proposal made me laugh.That's a lovely quote from Emily Dickinson!❤
Oh yes, that was a good one 😂
The life of clergy was one of the more interesting things I'm taking away from this book. Celibacy is a thing where I live, it was so weird to observe how Fred was at some point set to compete with Farebrother lol
btw every time you mention Les Miserables I envy your pronunciation
Yes, same here. I was also confused for a moment, but then remembered that Farebrother could indeed marry... ;)
Ha. There are some advantages to having French as a second language 😂
Thanks for this Emmelie. You always do great reviews! I have never read Middlemarch and I'm not sure if this would be for me. However that's okay as we are all different. Happy reading!🙂
Happy reading! 😘
I still have to read Middlemarch since it is a glaring gap in my reading of Victorian literature. I have read The Mill on the Floss, however, and quite honestly, I found it challenging to get through and really quite dreary. Perhaps Middlemarch is better?
It depends on what you found challenging. I had read Silas Marner (and found it difficult), and it made me a little afraid to start Middlemarch. I found it to be a completely different experience. Can't say anything about Mill, because I haven't read it (yet) 😇
Dorothea is the reason I placed this book back on my shelf. I couldn't stand her and hated being in her negative thoughts. Now, I have just recently heard, that the book goes into other character's stories, so I'm thinking about picking it back up. Does Dorothea's character mature or does she stay hateful?
I can see why Dorothea's character can bother a reader to the point of giving up. Her progress is a slow one, but by the end of the novel, she does change and is transformed. There are indeed other storylines you might enjoy. It always switches :) I find it hard to say "just push yourself through book I", because her storyline remains important throughout the novel.
@@ProseAndPetticoats As long as she grows as a person, I can push through her negativity. Thank you for sharing.
I stopped reading because of Dorothea too, she was insufferable in the beginning, and that leads her to a bad marriage with conviction. But that's where the real story begins, how her character develops, what she endures, and how much she changes is also astonishing.
@@nur-e-diphamuttaqi Thank you for sharing! with your information I might add her to my winter reading. 🤗
I tried reading Middlemarch quite a few years ago but got bored with it. However, I’m going to give it a new fresh try - you inspired me (again). Thanks also for the important characters list😊
You're very welcome! I hope you will like it better on the second try 😘
Hi Emmelie... Thank you for doing a book review without spoilers since Middlemarch is on my TBR. I'm looking forward to the storyline. Your fluffy friend is quickly trying to become a star on your UA-cam channel. Can I ask your cat's name?
Haha, my cat is always around, usually napping beside me while I record 🤭 His name is Toulouse.
Hello, thank you for the review.
can you make a video of romance books that you like the romance in them?
I don't know if I ever read a pure 'romance' novel. Do you mean books that have a great love story in them, or books that are 100% romance genre? 😊
@@ProseAndPetticoats well I mean any love story that you most liked.
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If you’re watching this please like and subscribe. She has amazing content. Above and beyond most “book tubers”. ❤.
So kind of you. Thanks! 🥹
Footnotes...? Middlemarch has footnotes?
I've watched a number of Middlemarch-focused videos, and I think you're the first to mention footnotes. I've just started reading Middlemarch. I don't have the edition you have, but rather, the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (the one with the foreward by Rebecca Mead). I actually also have the Everman's Library Classics, but I'm reading the Mead one.
I am surprised that your editions do not have footnotes. I was glad they were there - they helped me understand all the references she made (and there are many). I hope you will enjoy Middlemarch. Happy reading!
@@ProseAndPetticoats Oh, I didn't check to see if there were footnotes. I'm still early in the novel, so I may not have arrived at the first footnote....
...Alright, I just flipped through the Penguin Classics Deluxe (the deckled edges didn't help) and the Everyman's (which I misspelled earlier), and didn't see any footnotes (or endnotes at the back). It may be that if the footnotes are sparse, they may be sprinkled throughout, and I might have not seen them.
In any case, I guess that if I want the full reading experience, I'll have to consider getting the edition you have.
@@DKFynn Very strange!
I have the Penguin Classics now, and I see what you mean. The first two chapters have 14 endnotes.
I’ve only ever seen the TV mini series so know the story, but I’m making my way through the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s “Great Books of the Western World” Series, & it’s in the second edition! Unfortunately the first edition had no female writers, but they fixed that in the 2nd edition… Looking forward to reading it!
I must look up that book - is it one big volume? It sounds so interesting 🙀
@@ProseAndPetticoats 😄 no, the 1st edition is 54 volumes (published in 1952), the 2nd is 60 (published in the 90’s with updates). But covers all major “western” works in time from Homer to Freud, including all of Shakespeare, & War & Peace, etc. All major works of history, philosophy, science and literature. The idea was to give everyone access to a liberal education, and includes some (at the time) harder to get scientific papers like Galileo’s theories. You’ve probably read quite a few of the literature volumes, but you can dig in to the others to see how ideas influenced thought at the time! It’s a lifelong project really to get through them all, and you can find the pdfs of all 1st edition volumes for free online…
@@nualafaolin7129 Wow, interesting! Thank you for explaining 😇