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Graduate student specializing in 18th century British literature with an emphasis on the novel. Lover of John Milton, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte. (Yes, I know none of them published in the 18th century.)

Occasional writer of lengthy fictions, seven-time NaNoWriMo participant and former Office of Letters and Light intern.

Reader of much young adult and/or fantasy lit. Lifetime lover of Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, recently fanatic about Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy, blaming it all on Harry Potter.

Wanderluster. Left my heart in London, reclaim it bit by bit through tea and Doctor Who and Sherlock and Downton Abbey.

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Notes Read These Books: Something Like a Top 5 List

A few months ago, something I can no longer remember prompted me to attempt to make a list of my fifteen favorite books. The list got to about twelve, but trying to figure out the last three was hell.

What follows is something like my list: more than five (but less than fifteen) books that keep me coming back for more.

#Austen and Aliens #George Eliot #The Mill on the Floss #Jane Austen #Pride and Prejudice #Diane Duane #The Wizard's Dilemma #The Left Hand of Darkness #Ursula K. LeGuin #Paradise Lost #John Milton #Ray Bradbury #Fahrenheit 451 #Possession #A. S. Byatt #A Thousand Words for Stranger #Julie E. Czerneda
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"I’m determined to read no more books where the blond-haired women carry away all the happiness. I should begin to have a prejudice against them. If you could give me some story, now, where the dark woman triumphs, it would restore the balance."

Maggie Tulliver, from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (332)

#The Mill on the Floss #George Eliot
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"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

Philip Wakem, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (303)

#The Mill on the Floss #George Eliot