New year, new post....The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

I got soo behind last year it seemed impossible to catch up on the list of things I wanted to do on this blog so I'm just accepting the losses of imagined posts and moving on to new posts!
My Goodreads challenge of 2015 was far from met- and that's okay. We don't always reach our goals.
This year I've lowered the bar a little from last year, giving myself a little more slack in the reading department by setting my challenge at 60 books. It's a whole 15 less than last year, and since I only read 31 last year if I double my efforts, I can make it!

SO! On that note, here's my first book review of 2016 (it's still weird to write..)

I'm writing this review while the book is still very fresh in my mind, I only finished it a couple minutes ago. The story follows (for the most part) Maggie Tulliver from childhood to early adulthood and all the struggles a young woman faces in the early to mid 1800s. She struggles mostly with her relationship to her brother Tom Tulliver, and in the end (no spoilers but) they are reconciled.

Okay now for my thoughts--
The first couple hundred pages were rough. It took me a little over a month to finish this one since it was hard to immerse yourself into. The beginning introduces you to the entire Tulliver family and it was just honestly, a little boring. The real plot doesn't really start to begin until Tom Tulliver goes away to school and even then reading about his struggles with Latin wasn't the most engrossing thing.
I enjoyed this book immensely. I liked the brief romances, the strong familial ties represented in the book, but I think I loved the lush descriptions of the scenery the best. This would have been a great read for a scenic vacation, I think. It would be a nice location read too, if someone was planning a trip to the Lincolnshire English countryside.
4/5 stars for me on this one. A nice almost-600 page read to start the year off!!       C