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Endgame

Dear Twin, Sorry to piggyback right on your last blog post, but after you disparaged my ability to finish the book I wanted to let you know when I finished as soon as it happened. And I just read the… more →

Reading with my Twin

Gosling Watch — 4 comments

Ronnie Hughes wrote 1 day ago: “Everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.” William Blake An update on the w … more →

Tags: Reading, natural world, Arts Hub 47, cygnets, Environment, Geese, George Eliot, goslings, Great crested grebe

Sink or Swim: Social Stagnation in Eliot's Middlemarch — 1 comment

Kaelyn wrote 3 days ago: Funny how just when you think your brain might implode from sheer impotency, you finally think of so … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, 19th Century British Literature, doldrums, Dorothea, George Eliot, Mr. Casaubon, stagnation

::Susan Sontag:: Remembering an intellectual heroine

distrito47 wrote 5 days ago: Between the word “public” and the word “intellectual” there falls, or ought … more →

Tags: Arts, Books & Literature, aesthetic, Against Interpretation, Bosnia, Bosnian, Campaign, campaign of solidarity, civic resistance

"Unravelling certain human lots"

K. wrote 6 days ago: A Great historian, as he [Henry Fielding] insisted on calling himself… glories in his copious … more →

Tags: Art, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, historian, History, Web, universe, relevancies, focus?

A matter of distance

K. wrote 6 days ago: [A] telescope might have swept the parishes of Tipton and Freshitt… without witnessing any int … more →

Tags: Causes, Science, Art, Objectivity, George Eliot, Mrs. Cadwallader, Telescope, Microscope, Point Of View

FOUND IN: Middlemarch by George Eliot

bibliopathy wrote 1 week ago: A novel idea? … more →

Tags: Found in Books, Books, George Eliot, Haddock, Found Items

E.M. Forster, "Howards End"

katflei wrote 1 week ago: 1910 The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen (and their brother Tibby) are half-German intellectual … more →

Tags: 20th century British, Novels, Austen, Brideshead Revisited, Class, Downton Abbey, Forster, George Eliot, Howards End

Iris Murdoch, "The Bell"

katflei wrote 1 week ago: 1958 Like Waugh and Greene, in The Bell Iris Murdoch takes up the problem of faith – once agai … more →

Tags: Novels, 20th century British, 20b, Women Writers, waugh, byatt, Murdoch, Lessing, Novels 2

Michael Gove to predict the lottery LIVE — 1 comment

Wrenfoe wrote 1 week ago: Following on from his unprecedented run of success in accurately predicting what this nation needs, … more →

Tags: uk politics, Michael Gove, Derren Brown, Andrew Marr, lottery, Satire

Why Mr Gove and I will never agree — 2 comments

Sceptical Mum (aka Ellie Hyde) wrote 1 week ago: On the whole, I would rather scratch out my own eyes than ever agree with anything that emanates fro … more →

Tags: Parenting, Children, kids, Education, Michael Gove, Michael Gove speech, Teaching, Literacy, Politics