![]() When I finished I wanted more Gaskell and so I picked Ruth off my shelf and this did not disappoint. The richness of the narrative, the variety of characters and the complexity of their intertwined lives forced me to read slowly. Molly really got to me and each morning I awoke wondering how her story would unfold. ![]() ![]() I picked up Wives and Daughters several weeks after my last post and it was the perfect book to read at a “snail’s pace.” Have you ever loved the experience of reading a book as much as you loved the book itself? As I spent long leisurely evenings on the couch or afternoons on the patio rocking chair, Molly Gibson stayed front and center in my thoughts. I am about one half the way through David Copperfield, but I put it on hold to read Gaskell’s, Ruth. I’ve spent the last two months reading Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens. ![]() The daily life into which people are born, and into which they are absorbed before they are well aware, forms chains which only one in a hundred has moral strength enough to despise, and to break when the right time comes–when an inward necessity for independent individual action arises, which is superior to all outward conventionalities. ![]()
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