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emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm growing more accustomed to these British writers and their muted style of writing (check out The Blackwater Lightship). The wonderful thing about this book is how certain sentences say far more than they appear to. Lovely writing. Almost poetic. No wonder Enright is the laureate for Irish fiction.
3rd october, 20115 -- @ page 183 -- going to set this aside for now...just not very engaged with it, which is a bummer.
20th october -- picked it back up again because i was feeling guilty for setting it aside so late in the read. it is very unusual for me to set aside a read so late into the story, but i was just not into it and each time i picked it up, it felt like a very unpleasant chore. so, total bummer.
this was a very flat read for me. i wasn't engaged with the story or the characters, and it didn't end up coming together or improving for me by the end. so unfortunate. but at least it isn't lingering in abandoned-ville.
20th october -- picked it back up again because i was feeling guilty for setting it aside so late in the read. it is very unusual for me to set aside a read so late into the story, but i was just not into it and each time i picked it up, it felt like a very unpleasant chore. so, total bummer.
this was a very flat read for me. i wasn't engaged with the story or the characters, and it didn't end up coming together or improving for me by the end. so unfortunate. but at least it isn't lingering in abandoned-ville.
emotional
reflective
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
Finished this today, it is readable but I am not fussy about her disjointed writing style. The characters were a challenge to love at times also;)
emotional
funny
reflective
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
I was only going to give it three stars, but I keep thinking about the characters and how well she gives one a sense of place. In this case, more than one place -- Ireland, New York in the '90's, Mali, etc.
Rosaleen was all kinds of messy for no damn reason and yet she was ALWAYS the moment!
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes