Many a Literature student has landed in college and come to dread the day where they must read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, a dense tome that centers on provincial life in the English Midlands during the earlier part of the 19th century. I am sure that it is a perfectly fine novel that, if I dusted off from my bedside table stacked with about 30 different books, I would likely enjoy. Also, if you don’t have 30 books piled high next to the place you rest your head, are you even really a reader?

Anyhow, I managed to dodge ever having to look beyond the front cover of Eliot’s novel in a bookstore.