Hi Lark, your drought sounds really terrible there. I hope you get some rain! It’s always so arid here … that we wish for it too.
I’m glad you’re a George Eliot fan … I might add it to my stacks for a 2027 read. We will see if I can get through it … very long indeed.
Enjoy your weekend too. Happy reading.

Hi Karis, the weather here has been pretty up & down …. now it could reach 70 and last weekend was 35. Ha. I hope you don’t swelter too soon where you are!
That’s too funny …. it’s the very same photo of the girl for both books? How crazy. I will try Middlemarch for next year …. but I think Jane Eyre might win that comparison. We’ll see. Cheers. Have a great weekend.

Oh Anne: just saw your 2nd comment … I might put the big Middlemarch on my list for 2027 … and then I’ll read the memoir you mention which sounds interesting. I’m glad you say it helped you. That sounds really worth while to read afterwards. Thx for the links.

Hi Anne, thanks for your link to your review of Moby-Dick …. I will stop by to check it out soon. Yes I’m curious for your thoughts. I think I need to start adding more classics to my reading …. especially since the best books lists like the Guardian’s favor the classics ….

I don’t care for George Eliot. It’s funny, though, the picture on the cover is the same one that’s on the front of my copy of Jane Eyre!

I just visited the Guardian list (thank you) and surprised that it was merely a list with no commentary. I have read about half of the books and hope to get to others, already on my TBR. Some I haven’t even heard of before. Middlemarch was top, huh? That is really surprising to me. I thought the book was fine but it wasn’t my favorite. I then read a memoir called My Life in Middlemarch which helped open up the classics for me. Here is my combined review of the two books: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2023/11/middlemarch-my-life-in-middlemarch-look.html

Not sure if you saw my review for Moby-Dick which I published last week. You had asked about some of my insights. Here you go: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/classic-review-moby-dick.html#disqus_thread

Hi Rachel, looks like we’ll be planting vegetables this weekend! It’s going like from 35 degrees to near 80 soon. Crazy flux.
And I think you’d like the audio of Yesteryear … it’s a doozy. The narrator is pretty unlikable but you sort of want to see what happens. I’ll post a review I think this weekend. Cheers! Enjoy your garden.

Hi Helen, thanks. Yeah May snow … surprising. But we should see mid-70s here this weekend. Big temp changes still going on.
And Yay glad you’ve chosen your 20 summer reads … I look forward to seeing them. I think I’m choosing 15 but we’ll see. I have a couple more weeks to decide the list, lol. Half the fun is picking the books. Enjoy the week too.