Your Daily Penguin: Middlemarch!

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[@pennygraham3767]

I am always hoping that one day you will do a readalong of Middlemarch in particular and the author in general. Or you could do a readalong of your ten top novels of all time. Yes!

[@paulgriffin419]

These are great ideas Penny and I totally agree with you.

[@tripp8833]

Well he did the Iliad and the Bible a while back, and I have a feeling those are in his top 10! He’s also done some Jane Austen who’s probably in there as well...

[@jemgem9593]

What happens in a read along? I'm new ish to book tube

[@Emmareads15]

I was just going to post this, I would love Steve to do a read along of Middlemarch.

[@paulgriffin419]

@@jemgem9593 We all read an agreed number of chapters of the book during the week and then Steve talks about it and raises various talking points. We can then respond and discuss as we wish. It's always good fun and can raise aspects of the book that you may not have considered.

[@OttoIncandenza]

I love Middlemarch. Her prose is crystalline clear and what should be a long arduous read rushes by like a novella.

[@jemgem9593]

When I finished reading Middlemarch about 6 years ago I was desperate to discuss it with people, but I had no one to discuss it with. I SO glad to have found you channel ☀️

[@meto2854]

STEVE PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEASE LET’S DO A BIG OL’ READ-ALONG OF THIS!

[@gaildoughty6799]

Poor Frieda. I love Middlemarch. I have the newer Penguin Classic with a picture of a statuette of La Venus d’Arles. It’s still the Ashton notes and intro, though. I read this three times in two years, and will be reading it again this month. There’s an entire world in that book. Foolishly romantic as I am, I think Dorothea should have married Lydgate. She would have helped him greatly, and he could have lightened her up considerably. It’s quite clear that it’s a good thing that Eliot wrote it, and not me.

[@lilliannieswender266]

I don't blame Miss Frieda for bowing out on camera time, it was 97 here today, and i feel like I have been in a furnace all day. There is no doubt that Middlemarch is one of the greatest novels of all time, if Eliot had only written this novel, it would have placed her high in the literary canon forever.

[@ramblingraconteur1616]

Ladislaw as a “wild card”, love it! The characters breathe and think, as well as those in Shakespeare, such an incredible work and world. Reading it sent me off on looking up those Reform Acts. Does Henry James honestly have a novel that makes it into the top 100 novels or even the top 100 in English??

[@EastLancsJohn]

I read Middlemarch this year. It took me a while to appreciate the novel. I think my concentration was affected by concerns about the Corona virus. By half-way, and with the help of the audiobook and John Raffles, I was immersed in the unfolding and unraveling and very moved by the elegiac ending.

[@Emmareads15]

Please, please, please can we have a Middlemarch read-along? Pretty please?

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

I agree that "Middlemarch" is a great novel. I am rereading at the moment and annotating like mad. I can see earlier annotations, so it's huge fun. I love thus series, Steve. It was helped me with reading the Ancients particularly.

[@zalah1786]

I DREAM to have a home library like yours someday😍

[@justcalm3301]

I purchased a copy after sampling a chapter and loving Dortheas character in that sample. Hopefully i love this book.

[@amraceway]

Adam Bede I think was George Eliot's best novel.

[@parlabaneisback]

Do you think the time has come to start publishing her works under her real name?

[@tripp8833]

Jesus - only 6 minutes? What’s the hurry!?

[@steventregilgas5016]

I’ve tried to read this book several times it’s boring