Books and Things

this is probably my favorite Anthony Trollope book. It is the wonderful story of two sisters who live in the small house near the big house at Allington.

In fact, I think it is the best Anthony Trollope book. Though The Small House at Allington may be my favorite, The Way We Live Now is the best, but also so is He Knew He Was Right.

I love Barchester Towers I think it's incredible.

I really like An Old Man's Love. I don't think it's going to be for everyone.

I just think The Duke's Children is magnificent and I highly recommend it.

However, I do think the final two books in the Palliser series are incredible, and I do love The Prime Minister a lot.

He Knew He Was Right is an incredible novel. Is it the best thing Anthony Trollope ever wrote? Maybe.

But what I really love in The Claverings are the themes and the subplots. , the way this book looks at marriage and especially abusive marriages and the control men can exert over women within marriage in the Victorian period is so powerful.

And you know what? I'm going to put it up in the absolute all time favorites because I love it so much. And also because the Barsetshire Chronicles, it's my favorite book series ever, and the final Chronicle of Barset is like the bringing together of everything, and I love it, and it's just beautiful, and I was very emotionally invested.

It's great. very dramatic, quite a dramatic Anthony Trollope, one I would definitely recommend.

I think it's really marvelous. There's a lot of elements in it that I really love.

I do like it but I think there are stronger Anthony Trollope books. And for me it is one of his like more conventional less exciting books I would say.

And it's a great novel and I love Septimus Harding as a character a lot.

I just think Doctor Thorne's School is fantastic and I loved it very much.

It is one of those anti-Trollope books where like objectively I can admit that it is a bit repetitive but my goodness did I love every single second of it. Rarely have I had such a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience of a book ever.

Cousin Henry is a really great Anthony Trollope novel and actually interestingly, I would say that this is one of the books that I read a long time ago that has really stuck with me.

Basically, for the first three quarters of Is He Popenjoy? I was like this is my new favorite book, what an incredible novel. And then I found the final like third or quarter much less good.

from the beginning you know that something dark is coming and you're waiting to see what it is, and it is great. Really, really good.

I feel like what I mostly remember about The American Senator is thinking it was fantastic, but the sort of details of the plots have kind of escaped my mind. There's a lot of fantastic characters in The American Senator. I really loved it.

She ends up with two suitors, one of whom is from the upper working classes, one of whom is from the upper classes, and the question is, you know, who should Anna choose? And what is her social position? Really interesting novel.

I remember very little about it, but I basically got nothing out of it. I think it's probably the only Anthony Trollope novel I would say that I got a zero out of.

Phineas Redux is going straight into that Anthony Trollope let me down pile. It's my second least favorite Anthony Trollope book I would say.

Many people, I think, really love The Eustace Diamonds, , but it definitely wouldn't be a favorite of mine. I just think it didn't click with me as much.

I just I just adore Ralph the Heir. I think it's such a wonderful novel and there's nothing quite so quintessentially Anthony Trollope and quite so ridiculously Victorian as having three characters called Ralph Newbury.