Category: quarantine reading
August Reading
This post is by Caterina Fake from Caterina.net The stand out here, was of course, Middlemarch. I had read it in college and remember thinking to myself, “am I really going to expend my youth reading about agricultural practices in 19th century rural England?” But of course, it is so much more. Many people have…
Middlemarch and Civil Society. Chapters 23-42
This post is by Caterina Fake from Caterina.net Occasionally, in literature, good men appear. I am thinking of Martin Cunningham, in Ulysses, who always had something kind to say on behalf of Leopold Bloom. And here in Middlemarch I encountered another one. The good Caleb Garth, whose kind nature was exploited by the n’er-do-well spendthrift…