Review: My Life in Middlemarch Rebecca Mead Broadway Books 2014 I cannot remember reading a book that I have enjoyed more than this one. Mead and her interaction with Middlemarch and George Eliot, its author, made me want the same thing from a book that I have read and loved. Yes, maybe “love” is the proper word. Is there one? In what one reviewer called a “bibliomemoir” (304) Mead works her way through the books that comprise Middlemarch. That book, the places and the people that served as inspiration for the author, and Mead’s own story as it connected with Eliot’s text is the gist of Mead’s work here. She has explored the life of the author, those around her, the locales that touched even remotely on the text or author’s life, and even an unusual letter writing devotee, in a way that is more a diary of impressions and information than anything else, I think. Do you need to have read Middlemarch before reading t...