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do you need to heal your relationship to reading?
a story from my life plus three questions you can ask yourself
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bonus post: Middlemarch & science
a short bonus essay about the intersections of Victorian literature and science
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i know no speck so troublesome as self
Week 8 | analyzing week seven and getting into our next chapters
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the "christian carnivora" and an unexpected executor...
Week 7 | analyzing week six and getting into our next chapters
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the june report
things are heating up...!
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June 2025

and other good things ending in "-tion"
Week 6 | analyzing week five and getting into our next chapters
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the idealistic in the real
Week 5 | analyzing week four and getting into our next chapters
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good Middlemarch society...
Week 4 | analyzing week three and getting into our next chapters
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the girl's vision of a possible future for herself to which she looked forward with trembling hope...
Week 3 | analyzing week two and getting into our next chapters
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the may report
a busy month with so much goodness in it!
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Middlemarch FAQ
questions from our read-a-long, posed by readers and answered by me
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theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life
Week 2 | analyzing week one and getting into our next chapters
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