{"id":9042,"date":"2023-12-31T07:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2024-11-27T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:44:09","slug":"george-eliot-chapter-a-day-read-along-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/george-eliot-chapter-a-day-read-along-wrap-up","title":{"rendered":"George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today marks the end of our year-long reading of nearly all of George Eliot’s novels. By reading a chapter a day, we finished Adam Bede<\/em>, The Mill on the Floss<\/em>, Silas Marner<\/em>, Romola<\/em>, Middlemarch<\/em>, and Daniel Deronda<\/em>. Looking back over the past year, I have to admit that this year’s challenge was more difficult for me than past years. Eliot is a more challenging writer than I expected, and some of the chapters were a bit too long for a daily reading. Still, now that I have read them all at least once, I feel prepared for a more in depth reading of them in the future. My three favorites were Romola<\/em>, Silas Marner<\/em>, and Daniel Deronda<\/em>. I was disappointed in Middlemarch<\/em>, mostly because I had looked forward to reading it for so long and I had very high expectations for it. For a book that is so acclaimed, it was a struggle for me to appreciate, and I will definitely have to revisit it in the future at a more leisurely pace.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who joined me this past year for one, some, or all of Eliot’s books! I invite you to participate in the Fantasy Classics Read-along<\/a> that starts tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks the end of our year-long reading of nearly all of George Eliot’s novels. By reading a chapter a day, we finished Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. Looking back over the past year, I have to admit that this year’s challenge was more difficult for me than past years. Eliot is a more challenging writer than I expected, and some of the chapters were a bit too long for a daily reading. Still, now that I have read...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"George Eliot Chapter-a-Day Read-along Wrap-Up #eliotreadalong","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1219],"tags":[1176,965],"class_list":["post-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-2023-chapter-a-day-read-along","tag-george-eliot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/George-Eliot-banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-2lQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}