Tag: historical fiction

  • Middlemarch by George Eliot

    This took a long time, and at times I wanted to toss it in the grass, but I am going to miss this book. It was comforting and calming, but also challenging. It is another book I spent a lot of time reading about when I wasn’t reading it. The story of George Eliot, the…

  • Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

    Like East if Eden, this was a book I reluctantly picked up, then couldn’t put down. It took a while to get into – a cast of thousands and a million details, but it eventually gets laser-focused on certain characters and dissects events in incredible depth. The writing is so immersive I would be reading for…