FRIDAY READING FORUM

Marc Thomas and Leigh E. Rich

Middlemarch by George Eliot

 
3:30-5:00 pm Fridays, January 10 through March 7

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is considered a masterpiece by British author George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans).Written in the 1870s and set forty years earlier, Middlemarch takes on politics, religion, marriage, education, and even medicine. In other words, its themes are remarkably modern! The Friday Reading Forum has become a standard among TLC’s courses, offering a small-group setting in which texts are engaged in a collegial atmosphere.

The Friday Reading Forum, established by literature professor Carol Andrews, began in 2023 and aims to examine challenging texts in a collegial group setting. Marc Thomas is a retired librarian, bureaucrat, archivist, and poet. He is the author of Surviving Fragments and Talking to the Machines and Other Poems, two collections of poetry that deal with artificial intelligence and the pandemic sequestration. He is a frequent facilitator for book clubs at TLC. Leigh E. Rich is a professor in GSU’s Department of Health Sciences. She earned her PhD in health and behavioral sciences at the University of Colorado. She has hosted the WRUU radio program Listening to Literature