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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
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
I love a found family trope. The audio was excellent!
This is such a great book, from start to finish - lots of little twists in the book that come out of nowhere !
Fully recommend this feel good book, really has made me realise how important it is to just pick up a phone or text someone you haven’t spoken to in a while !
I’ll 100% be saying hello and smiling to everyone I see !
#knowyourneighbour
Fully recommend this feel good book, really has made me realise how important it is to just pick up a phone or text someone you haven’t spoken to in a while !
I’ll 100% be saying hello and smiling to everyone I see !
#knowyourneighbour
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:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This reminded me of A Man Called Ove. It was a sweet story but slow and by the end I was ready for it to be over.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
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
This was beautiful and devastating.
It's difficult to describe the plot here without spoiling anything, so I'll say, read the book jacket for a description.
This is a tender look at loneliness, grief, and grace.
Hubert is a complex character, experiencing his brutal journey through a society that judges him, his finding of the love of his life and the family they build together is a trip that was rough. but full of love and life.
The story also speaks to the isolation that we inflict on ourselves in an effort to find some sense of peace, but how damaging it can be to remain there long term. We oftentimes need some kind of interaction with other people just to remember that life is still going on.
Wonderful story.
It's difficult to describe the plot here without spoiling anything, so I'll say, read the book jacket for a description.
This is a tender look at loneliness, grief, and grace.
Hubert is a complex character, experiencing his brutal journey through a society that judges him, his finding of the love of his life and the family they build together is a trip that was rough. but full of love and life.
The story also speaks to the isolation that we inflict on ourselves in an effort to find some sense of peace, but how damaging it can be to remain there long term. We oftentimes need some kind of interaction with other people just to remember that life is still going on.
Wonderful story.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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:
Complicated
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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
This was a charming, realistic, loving, yet heartbreaking book. As someone who's struggled with loneliness his entire life, it was also terrifying in the sense that it laid out what a future of loneliness in elder years might look like. Some parts of the story were unrealistic and hard to believe (the quality of character of the members of the committee that Hubert co-founds was inspiring but I felt unrealistic), so that made me feel like yeah right, that wouldn't happen, but other parts of the story were incredibly realistic and very relatable (like Hubert's personality, his imperfect responses to difficult situations, and David's entire presence as a character w/ whose existence is unresolved). The twist at the end of Chapter 39 caught me by complete surprise and totally broke my heart, but it really added to the story perfectly and rounded out both Hubert as a character and the entire story by incorporating and intelligently discussing issues of depression, mental health, aging and racism. It was an incredible reminder that sometimes the people who appear the strongest in helping others are often the ones in most need of help w/ those same issues themselves. I highly recommend this book. The actual writing style by Gayle wasn't all that impressive, but the story absolutely was (if that makes any sense) and made me struggle to find things to criticize about the book.