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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Marcia Williams

This is kind of a dnf? We only read four tales for class and I’m not going out of my way to read more, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not giving this a rating because it’s an anthology and I only read four stories. Even I know that it’s not fair to hate something without giving it a fair chance…so let’s just say that I only hate this book a little bit.

The tales I read include the pardoner, the miller, the wife of Bath, and the reeve. The pardoner’s tale wasn’t entirely boring, I suppose. The miller’s and the reeve’s were very explicit, to me anyway, and definitely not what I was expecting. The wife of Bath’s was cliché, to be honest. CW for rape for that one, which I‘m pretty sure could apply to the reeve’s as well.

I’m glad to be done with this novel. Now time to forget about it as much as possible until the semester final. 😉