I finally finished Middlemarch! // Reading Wrap Up
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- It's me, your eclectic librarian! Long time no see. I'm back, to tell you all about some of the books I have been reading the last couple of months.
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Books mentioned:
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskel
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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Great to have you back! "Consistent in my chaos..." I know the feeling!
I have just found your channel and really enjoyed this episode. I absolutely understand immersing yourself in one project after another and not always keeping up. But I hope you make more! I appreciated your analysis of each book.
There will definitely be more! Thank you for watching 🙂
Best wishes with all your hobbies.
Never mind. I started to read The Mysteries of London volume 1 in October and still haven’t finished it. But it’s over 1100 pages. But I keep at it.
I think I’ll wait a while before tackling Middle March.
That's really brave! I haven't quite had the courage to tackle The Mysteries of London. That's one of the longest books I know - hope you're enjoying it! Middlemarch is definitely shorter
@@TheEclecticLibrary I'm 70% or so in, and I'm still enjoying it.
It's So Great to see you again, Celine!🤗
George Eliot and Gaskell at the same time 😲 I love both Middlemarch and Cranford, but neither are my favorites of either author. Cranford, I think, lends itself really well to being a tv miniseries. It's vignettes are more about the town than a single storyline and so it feels episodic.
I'd love to know what other hobbies you found yourself about while away from us🤔 Looking forward to all the other videos to come!
Thank you, it's so good to be back again ☺️ What is your favourite Eliot? I think there is a TV show loosely based on Cranford, but I haven't seen it yet, so no idea whether it's a good adaptation! You're absolutely right though, it would work great as a miniseries.
Ha, I got really into sewing for a little bit, and have also been writing and playing video games. It's so easy to get caught up in a bunch of different projects!
@@TheEclecticLibrary due to sentiment- Silas will always be a favorite (grampa’s who read it to you when small will make it so) but Romola,Daniel Daronda, & Adam Bede (though my teen/twenty self probably liked it more than my mid-50’s self would) are all over middlemarch. Daronda still has some parts I found more interesting than others, but Romola I don’t remember being bored with or disinterested at all. I have only ever reread Silas🤭
@@TheEclecticLibrary ps - doing what makes you happy is important! I’m glad you were missing us & are finding happiness here too 🤗
I want to read it but I'm looking for a nice edition. Easton press copies are crazy expensive.
They are stunning though! Hope you can find a good deal
Virginia Woolf famously called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."
I love that!
Everyone seems to love this book. What am i missing. I've only read 6 pages but it gave me a massive headache and i had to stop. If it continues like this the whole time i don't know how anyone gets through it
It might just not be the book for you! Have you tried an audiobook? I find that can sometimes really help if the writing style takes some getting used to
The last time you made a book vlog was...three months ago! "a little while" is putting it mildly . I understand, life happens, something else takes up your attention, and so, there's a change in the everyday flow of things. That's a good thing. Good for you in completing a tome 👏 I haven't quite gotten around to tackling "Middlemarch." It is one of those books book tubers (as avid consumers) like to lay claim to in evincing cultural capital, to show their quality lol. The equivalent of James Joyce writing Ulysses to flaunt his genius. I'm very aware of that dimension. Life experience goes way beyond reading the perennial "classics" in my opinion.
Time flies when you're having fun! I'm glad to be back though. I never managed to finish Ulysses, but I might try again one day haha
@@TheEclecticLibrary Give it a try Celine. You got time🙂
3 classics I haven’t read but, I’ve heard a lot about!!
Do you have a favorite George Eliot?
It's so hard to choose! I really enjoyed both Middlemarch and Silas Marner. I might have to read Adam Bede as a tie breaker
@@TheEclecticLibrary I’ll add those to my future TBR!
Your right it has been 4 months since you posted your last video. During that time you got new glasses. I like them, but I also liked your previous glasses as well also. Now as a former optician usually unless you lost or broke your previous glasses the only reason for getting new glasses is a change in prescription. So I'm going to assume that you didn't loose or break your glasses and you had a slight change in your prescription. Were things at a distance becoming a little blurry even with your glasses on or were you simply due to get your eyes checked and you weren't having any issues with your eyesight at all? I can see by looking at your glasses, and through them, that your nearsighted or what you may call it shortsighted. So you really shouldn't need your glasses for reading. now there of course there is no harm in wearing your glasses to read if your more comfortable wearing them. But I do have a suggestion for you. By wearing them to rad your forcing your eyes to become fully adjusted to the prescription in your glasses. So to keep your eyesight from worsening for near things, such as reading, you should try wearing a weaker pair of glasses for reading. Your eye can even tell you which pair of previous glasses are most comfortable for reading simply by trying all of them that you have. Now it's possible that you may only have a couple pairs if you only started wearing glasses a few years ago. When did you get your first glasses and when did you start wearing them fulltime? How did you feel about getting glasses? Young attractive women, which you are certainly in that group, often aren't all that happy about getting glasses.
I've had glasses since I was 12! Unfortunately, my right eye has a prescription of -4 and has recently become astigmatic as well, so I can't read without glasses or even with a previous prescription, as it doesn't correct the astigmatism. I'll keep it in mind for the future though! Overall I quite like glasses, although I've worn contacts as well
@@TheEclecticLibrary Thank you for your reply. So I assume your left eye is your better eye? I'm a little surprised that you only recently developed some astigmatism in your right eye. I'm sure you know what an astigmatisms is. If not it's the shape of the eye which usually is found much sooner. As a former optician it's always nice to hear you say that you quite like wearing glasses. But honestly I think glasses really can enhance the looks of almost every woman. And you look so nice wearing glasses. I'm sure it helps that glasses have really seemed to get more and more fashionable over the years. In my early years as an optician I had quite a few young girls in tears as they were picking out a frame for their glasses. In those days when a young girl got glasses to her it was the kiss of death because she was sure to never marry. But in my later years those same young girls were actually excited about getting glasses. And when they didn't need glasses they were very disappointed. Our doctor even caught quite few trying to fake the eye exam to get glasses. Only God knows how many may have done it well enough to get glasses. At 12 I'm sure you weren't one of them. haha So do you still wear contacts from time to time or do you only wear glasses now? I'm not really a fan of contacts because I have seen my share of people coming in with eye infections and eye ulcers. Those are things you don't need to worry about when you wear glasses. But to be fair contacts are very good option for anyone that plays sports, especially any type of contact sports. You should be getting close to when your eyes should stop changing . That usually happens somewhere between the ages of 19 and 25. So at your recent eye exam did your prescription increase other than having some astigmatism correct now? By the way did mention how cute you look wearing glasses?