Stuffs I read and I am reading

I just finished reading Middlemarch by Geogre Eliot. I think of all the novels I have read, no novel has portrayed human lives in such a minute detail, in such a touching and sympathetic manner that I even empathize with people who I might have judged like Mr. Causabon There are also sections of tenderness such as the one about Mr. Causabon and Mrs. Causabon ending the argument and between the one between Bulstrode and his wife near the end that they drew tears from my eyes. People in the novel have done such follies and you cannot help feeling for them because how utterly human they seem.

Though the novel ends happy for most characters, Lydgate's fate is so sad, made even the more sadder by the fact his disappointing life feels so common, so base and so drained of any purpose or fulfillment.

After reading Middlemarch, I am starting with Cyrus Hoy's Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet. This is the second time I have tried to read it so I hope I will get through it this time. This edition is quite weird in the fact that the words that need explaining do not get numbered or marked out in any way, the lines, the words and the explanations are just included at the end of the page. It is quite frustrating. I also find it weird that the endnote explains extremely simple terms like "subject" which just does not need explaining and does not explain words that are not in common usage.