Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

It's been almost a month since my last post--but work has been busy, life has been busy, and...you know the drill. I'm roundin...

I've been wanting to reread George Eliot's masterpiece, Middlemarch , for awhile now, so decided to read it along with the GoodRe...

I've just started Romola , by George Eliot.  It's the last of my Classics Challenge books for 2013 , and I'll be hard presse...

I read George Eliot's Silas Marner as my first classic of 2012 and as part of my mission to read all of Eliot in order. Silas Marner i...

Katherine at November's Autumn is hosting the Classics Challenge and is posting prompts the 4th of every month. This month she is focu...

I've been looking forward to reading The Mill on the Floss for years, and finally got to it during my current project to read all of Geo...

Between writing Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss , George Eliot wrote a short story, The Lifted Veil , that is quite different from anyth...

I watched the 1991 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Adam Bede last night and was blown away by how good it was. It only took 1 hour and...

Last year I decided that George Eliot was going to be my new focus, having spent several years reading works by and about Elizabeth Gaskell....

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story is the second of three short stories that make up George Eliot's first attempt at fiction, Scenes of Clerica...

The Sad Fortunes of Rev. Amos Barton is the first of three short stories that constitute George Eliot's first fiction work, Scenes of C...

I started the Jenny Uglow bio of George Eliot, who was christened Maryann Evans and subsequently assumed various pennames before settling on...

How did a week go by without a post? Oh, yeah, it was Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. What have I been doing? Well, for starters, we i...

I'm just about to start rereading Gaskell's last, unfinished novel, Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics) , and so last night start...

Observations on both books that I'm currently reading. I'm sailing through Daphne , and am nearing the end. It is still as fascinat...