Reading Diary

Reading time suffered this week because of a heavy load at work, so it was a joy to get back to Trollope this morning. Last weekend while reading Can You Forgive Her? I was very moved by the reconciliation scene between Plantagenet and Glencora Palliser; in recent weeks Trollope has brought chills to my spine, laughter to my lips, and tears to my eyes. This week I was reminded anew how good he is observationally, as in this comment of Glencora's about her infatuation with Burgo Fitzgerald:

When I saw him the other night he was just as handsome as ever — the same look, half wild and half tame, like an animal you cannot catch, but which you think would love you so if you could catch him.

I have never read a better expression of why women go for the "wrong" men.