While She Knits--Show and Tell

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

*gosh, I'm tired...*

Guiding question for the week:

Is there a book where the descriptions or the character portraits or the settings just blew you away? Or cover art?
 Tell us about it. Give us quotes, if you want, as long as they're not spoilery, to give us a taste.

Or, chaos as usual.
  As you will have it. Carry on.

*thank you, Checkers, for the poke, I am half-dead and will be till November*

Comments

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Okay, y'all are going to think I'm a bit peculiar, but you mentioned "character portraits." Just finished Middlemarch by George Eliot -- all 780 pages -- and the characters are amazingly deep and complex and real, and the way they react off each other is so true. I complained all through the first 200 pages, and ended up, if not actually agreeing, at least not arguing with anyone who thinks it's the "greatest novel in the English language."

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I've never read any George Eliot, and I really should try at least one. Middlemarch it shall be, if I ever have the time!

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see, I started it in June....

But really, I read the bulk of it in a couple of weeks. It was that first 200 pages that slowed me down!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

I have loved Middlemarch ever since I finished it the first time. Actually, my mom even just finished it!
And the cover I have is gorgeous: http://louisville.edu/a-s/english/babo/griffin/millais6_p.jpg

just on it's own, but fits pretty well, though depicting a different era.

I have to agree with the character-sketch assessment. I so love the picture drawn of Will over time. And Mary!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

"just finished it" on my recommendation, that is, and really enjoyed it as she went along, too, though she had found the beginning off-putting.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Totally random/off topic/whatever but anachred, I LOVE your 'magus in question' icon. "Why did you come if not to kill my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him. "Even with one hand." One of my absolute favorite lines. Along with like a billion others.

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

Isn't he adorable?
It's Rickman, even, so yes. Love it. It was just too perfect to pass up.

One of my top 5 in QoA, I think, that section.

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

I just read it this morning. It was in class while we were waiting for our teacher to come back and I opened the book and remembered I was on chapter eight. I mouthed to my roommate who has read the books too, "I'm on chapter eight!!" and pointed and grinned. She just smiled, shook her head, and rolled her eyes.