A thoughtful discussion of MIDDLEMARCH AND THE IMPERFECT LIFE and MRS. DALLOWAY: BOOKMARKED, by critic Mark Athitakis at the literary site On the Seawall. Athitakis does a nice job of positioning the two books together, and showing how their themes fortuitously overlap. (Or maybe not so fortuitously, since the wonderful Robin E. Black and I share many readerly interests.)