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It's by far my least favorite of the three novels of hers that I've read Larry Send a noteboard - 08/05/2010 01:18:16 PM
I had bought this book a long time ago when I was reading the Anne of Green Gables books and saw a quote that struck me. I googled the quote and found out that it was from The Mill on the Floss. Then a while later I saw the book at the used book store and bought it on a whim. Then it sat forgotten on a rarely looked at book shelf for a couple of years. I had forgotten I had it until the other day.

On another whim last night I picked it up and took it with me to read in bed. I had to slog through the first page before it started to show subtle signs of promise. The further I read into it the more I am convinced that this will be one of those books I treasure. I fancy that I see why L. M. Montgomery enjoyed it enough to quote.


Then again, I haven't read it since I was 17, so little remains in memory other than it failed to grab my interest the way Silas Marner or Middlemarch did.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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