so-so3⭐️ A generous rating from me 🤪 My expectation was really high as this is my first Trollope. I find his engangement is on and off; he introduces too many themes but doesn‘t go deep in any of them. This is what annoys me the most 😤 … and also, the novel could be 200 pages shorter with tight editing. I‘d recommend Zola‘s Money and George Gissing‘s New Grub Street instead. Sigh… shall I still go ahead with Barsetshire series?
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Starting this 😃 for Chunkster Book Club meeting in May
We've been watching adaptations of Victorian novels I've never read on Amazon. No idea if they're accurate but are enjoyable!
📺The Way We Live Now (2001). (Bonus. A young Cillian Murphy 😍)
📺 Vanity Fair (2018) (Bonus. A great soundtrack including some Kate Bush)
I started The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope on May 15th and just finished it tonight. I'd guess that I read about 40% and the rest I listened to on audio. It was an enjoyable ride getting to know these characters. Some were certainly very unlikable but Trollope's writing style pulled me in. This was my first Anthony Trollope novel. I will be reading more!
panIn good conscience, there is no way I can recommend. It is a classic, but full of anti-Semitic views. Racism was not right then and it is not right now.
David Suchet made the perfect Melmotte, who was only accepted into society because of all his #money. #catchingup #150PnPCoverParty @CrowCAH @LeahBergen
I won‘t finish another book before midnight tomorrow, so here are my Goodreads stats for 2017. The Reluctant Trophy Wife was a DNF - it was horrible. The Handmaid‘s Tale was a reread, and a welcome one. The tagged book, my longest, was amazingly appropriate to our current situation, and as well written as all Trollope‘s work.
Eighteen of the 103 books I‘ve finished so far in 2017 were by British authors. I‘m kind of surprised the number isn‘t higher. #🇬🇧 #emojinov @RealLifeReading
I went to the local independent book shop at the mall that sells used books. What rock have I been sleeping under? They were selling books that were in "ok" condition for $8.00. I could understand paying that price for one that is in "new", "like new", "very good" and "good" condition. But not for "ok". I am glad that there are library book sales and GW's that sell at a more realistic price.
This is the last book #setinVictorianera that I read. Although I read the ebook version from Project Gutenberg, I would love to own this beautiful first edition set! #sparklingmaybookishdreams @maich
pickThis book would be a door stopper, except I read it in my Kindle. Trollope explores a world where money (or the appearance of money) trumps morals, manners, intelligence and just about any virtue. Amazingly relevant to today's political scene, except in the end the "villain" gets his due.
"The facts, if not true, were well invented; the arguments, if not logical, were seductive." #themorethingschange #LitsyAtoZ #LetterW
Every year, I set myself three longreads so I commit to getting some of the huuuge books read. These are 2017's picks.
The Way We Live Now | 
