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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
so who’s going to kiss me on a mountain in italy
For me, there's nothing like a good book about wealthy, upper class people dealing with losing their money or their social position (or being threatened with the loss of either) and this book delivers. Lucy and her cousin Charlotte head to Italy and stay in a pension with other British travelers looking to experience a new country without missing out on the comforts of home. Along the way she meets George, a fellow traveler who steals her dignity and kisses her.
Heading back home, Lucy moves on and becomes engaged to a very different man named Cecil. She then has to deal with a reckoning on her true feelings and decide how she will chart the course of her life (based on which man she ends up with, naturally).
Heading back home, Lucy moves on and becomes engaged to a very different man named Cecil. She then has to deal with a reckoning on her true feelings and decide how she will chart the course of her life (based on which man she ends up with, naturally).
funny
hopeful
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:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
slow-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:
No
I like the way Forster talks to the audience, but the story itself didn't light any fires in me.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Not a word wasted. I’ve seen the Merchant-Ivory film countless times (the casting is spot-on), but this was the first time I’ve read the book. Wonderful. Enchanting. Colorful. I’ve added other books by Forster to my list. This was on my list to inspire me for a trip to Italy, and it worked. Felt like I was there (Florence, Rome).
Maybe a 3.5?
This was good!! Short, but you get a feel for all of the characters and even if I didn’t connect with too many. The way this book advocates for shrugging off stuffy Victorian ideals and embracing a more free life and nature is a lot of fun, and GOD I have never wanted to visit Italy more. Forster is a really easy writer to read and I definitely will be reading more of him in the future, if only bc of this line:
Also I'm sad this wasn't gayer (or really gay at all. the lake scene led me on) but at least I have Maurice, so.
This was good!! Short, but you get a feel for all of the characters and even if I didn’t connect with too many. The way this book advocates for shrugging off stuffy Victorian ideals and embracing a more free life and nature is a lot of fun, and GOD I have never wanted to visit Italy more. Forster is a really easy writer to read and I definitely will be reading more of him in the future, if only bc of this line:
"From her feet the ground sloped sharply into view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems, collecting into pools in the hollows, covering the grass with spots of azure foam. But never again were they in such profusion; this terrace was the well-head, the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth."
Also I'm sad this wasn't gayer (or really gay at all. the lake scene led me on) but at least I have Maurice, so.