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MILLER’S BOOK REVIEW 📚

My Sons Read ‘Middlemarch’ and Sided Against Dorothea

What Do Teenage Boys Make of the Complexities of George Eliot’s Eternal Classic?

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Sep 05, 2026
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A guest post from the incomparable Shemaiah Gonzalez about reading Middlemarch with her sons, plus an extra treat from me for paid subscribers on Eliot’s writing process. MBR readers ranked Middlemarch No. 3 in the greatest novels of all time.

This summer will forever be remembered as “The One Where My Teen Sons and I Read Middlemarch.” It is our fifth summer tackling ep…

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Essayist and Storyteller on faith, art and literature. Her book, Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight (Zondervan 2025) was birthed from her Substack.
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