tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171252542873796679.post8615056671084336484..comments2023-05-26T06:35:41.480-05:00Comments on Contractually Obligated to Like Books: In which the Polar Vortex forces me to write a postJamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076215213828545013noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171252542873796679.post-88101831674531327962015-01-09T19:37:32.359-06:002015-01-09T19:37:32.359-06:00Excellent use of that gif. So I have never read Tr...Excellent use of that gif. So I have never read Trollope but I keep meaning to. And this sounds good, even with the light anti-semitism and the being all mean to Lady Carbury. Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456600806188531803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171252542873796679.post-78347426494631099092015-01-07T15:17:33.192-06:002015-01-07T15:17:33.192-06:00Dolly Longstaffe sounds like Richard Swiveller in ...Dolly Longstaffe sounds like Richard Swiveller in The Old Curiosity Shop and I love Richard Swiveller SO MUCH so maybe I will read this'un.<br /><br />Also, re Jewishness in Victorian England -- this must have been A Thing at the time, because Daniel Deronda is 1876, and that's all about this Jewish guy, and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend has a sympathetic Jewish character, and that novel's 1865, and TWWLN seems to be 1875. <br /><br />Also, hilarious thing about Carmilla -- so she attacked this other girl, but her name was like Millarca, and there's this dead baroness from the 1600s that they have a painting of (that looks JUST like her! surprise!) and that's inscribed Mircalla. And it's just like....omg guys, why can you not figure out anagrams.Reading Rambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614467198216577755noreply@blogger.com