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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A wonderful book. It reminded me a bit of Pride and Prejudice in the way that the male and female leads acted towards each other. Though I maybe found this book a bit easier to read. I found the discussion of class interesting, especially in differences in the way she portrayed the people of the classes. I look forward to trying some of her other works.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This book didn't make much of an impression on me. I didn't want to quit reading it, but I could easily put it down at any time.
Namely, the characters were bland. They didn't have that much depth and felt like caricatures. On top of that, the situations they were placed in were so unremarkable and so... real world. I felt like I was reading what would have, at the time, been a contemporary novel, rather than a literary novel. It also made it difficult to care about the romance or any character's misfortune, because I didn't care who struggled or who fell in love.
This is a pretty run-of-the-mill 19th-century book, and not nearly as culturally significant as, say, Jane Austen.
Namely, the characters were bland. They didn't have that much depth and felt like caricatures. On top of that, the situations they were placed in were so unremarkable and so... real world. I felt like I was reading what would have, at the time, been a contemporary novel, rather than a literary novel. It also made it difficult to care about the romance or any character's misfortune, because I didn't care who struggled or who fell in love.
This is a pretty run-of-the-mill 19th-century book, and not nearly as culturally significant as, say, Jane Austen.
I had to give it 1 as I didn’t finish it. The first half was pretty good, Dickens social realism style. But the 2nd half bored me-too much time spent in trying to read in dialect, which made it laborious. Too much time in waiting for the 2 main characters to realise they actually did love each other, and get on with it.
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
In search for yet another 19th century romance, I stumbled across Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South - a slow-burn 'pride and prejudice' for socialists, following a young southern woman, who moves from a rural village in the south to a northern industrial town, where factories are in full bloom, unions are formed to fight for the workers rights and strikes are a common sighting. Here, amongst these people (who feel very real and I never once had any doubts), Margaret Hale meets Mr Thornton - a factory owner, who at first comes across ignorant and somewhat arrogant, so naturally, she develops a dislike for him.
This is more than just a love story, it is a socialist novel, that has so much pain and pining, so many feelings that I didn't expect to feel and yet they came over me all at once without any warning. This book really spoke to my soul and I have no idea how it managed to do so. Neither can I recall quite why it made me feel so safe reading it, but it created this ethereal feeling that I was in no danger as long as my mind was within the pages of this story. Perhaps it could be that religion here is very much in the foreground and follows every other occurrence.
I never thought this would be one of the best books I have read this year, but despite this, it has managed to leave a long lasting impression on me.
This is more than just a love story, it is a socialist novel, that has so much pain and pining, so many feelings that I didn't expect to feel and yet they came over me all at once without any warning. This book really spoke to my soul and I have no idea how it managed to do so. Neither can I recall quite why it made me feel so safe reading it, but it created this ethereal feeling that I was in no danger as long as my mind was within the pages of this story. Perhaps it could be that religion here is very much in the foreground and follows every other occurrence.
I never thought this would be one of the best books I have read this year, but despite this, it has managed to leave a long lasting impression on me.