"Hard" Reads 2016

Way to go, Tess!

I felt the same way about And Then There Were None, which was a bummer because I think I assumed I'd just love it since it was Christie. What is Daniel Deronda about?

Daniel Deronda is one of the most complicated but one of the most rewarding novels written by George Eliot. The time period is the late Victorian Age and Eliot introduces the themes of racism and Zionism, which for her day and age, was quite a gamble. This is the last book the author wrote and may say it is her most far reaching and best. I'm an Eliot fan and I can't say that it is any better than the others, but at least on par. I only have 2 Eliot's I have not read and they are on my TBR pile. She is probably either the top 2 or 3 of my favorite authors, with Thomas Hardy and the Bronte sisters beings the others.