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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh Lucy Barton, what a splendid read that was! Elizabeth Stout schept opnieuw fenomenaal een kleine wereld, via onverwachte ontmoetingen en schijnbaar weinigzeggende observaties. En toch is er aan opwindende gebeurtenissen geen gebrek: kanker, miskramen, coronacrisis, Black Lives Matter-demonstraties, Trump, het zit er alles in. Vergeet de reeks van Ali Smith maar lees Strout! Ze kan fantastisch goed schrijven, de taal en haar karakters zijn uniek. Een van de beste boeken die ik dit jaar tot nu toe las. Absolute aanrader! #lucyaanzee #elizabethstrout
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This author decided to use COVID to push many of the more recent, hot-topic political opinions with one of the most air-headed main characters I've ever had to painfully sit through. This was rough. One star is gracious.
Lucy by the Sea is the 3rd work by Elizabeth Strout that continues the story of Lucy Barton, a woman in her 60s and a successful writer living in New York City. The novel opens in the early days of 2020. William, Lucy's first husband and lifelong friend, is a scientist and convinces Lucy to leave New York with him for rural Maine in order to wait out the virus. In the ensuing months of the Pandemic, family, friendship, love, loss and isolation are examined. The sparse nature of Strout's writing is both beautiful and brilliant -- her prose is very readable yet calls out to be read slowly, in order to savor the depths of insights and experiences that are explored in the novel's characters. Especially profound for me was not only what the characters said to one another, but often what they did not say, as in Lucy's constant interior monologue with herself -- rendering Lucy's story so relatable, so terribly human: It's our duty to bear the mystery of the burden with as much grace as we can. Like Strout's other fictional character Olive Kitteridge, I cannot get enough of Lucy and hope there will be further chronicles of her in my reading future.