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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I listend to the audio version of the book. While the writing is quite good, I found the story tedious, switching back and forth in time. It might have been easier to read than to listen to. I gave up about halfway through the book.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Robinson writes in the most lyrical prose. She has an eye for nature's beauty and human frailty, writing from a deeply Christian outlook.
She has a knack of embuing her prose with Scripture and tensions inherent in the Christian system.
All of which makes me surprised I didn't absolutely love this. I've decided it's simply down to pacing. This book dragged. I'd read for an hour and be baffled at how little I'd progressed. It was also very dense on the page, with very little dialogue to break things up.
So not a beach read. But maybe one to dip back into throughout a life.
She has a knack of embuing her prose with Scripture and tensions inherent in the Christian system.
All of which makes me surprised I didn't absolutely love this. I've decided it's simply down to pacing. This book dragged. I'd read for an hour and be baffled at how little I'd progressed. It was also very dense on the page, with very little dialogue to break things up.
So not a beach read. But maybe one to dip back into throughout a life.
Marilynne Robinson's brilliance amazes once again - now I'm going to have to return to Gilead and Home. Lila's will be with me till the end.
I loved Robinson's "Housekeeping" so much that I was thrilled to find this available as a library download. I listened to this book and I know the narration played a big part in how I felt about this book. The story was intriguing but not enthralling. The storytelling and the narration were flat and just not compelling. Lila wasn't someone I cared about, although I really should have cared deeply about someone who was snatched from her family as a child and grew up as a migrant worker in the dust bowl. The story was just told so matter-of-factly that I really couldn't find a way to get attached.
That said, it was a good book with interesting characters set in an interesting era. I would suggest reading it rather than listening.
That said, it was a good book with interesting characters set in an interesting era. I would suggest reading it rather than listening.
Very slow and deliberate. Liked the development of the characters. Beautiful writing.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
This book showed me what it's like to be loved by God.