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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
funny
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beautiful writing.
emotional
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely beautiful writing. So many nuggets of truth and wisdom. Makes up for the almost complete lack of plot
funny
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is like taking a months' long vacation to the small village of Faha in Ireland, 100 years ago. The rural town, barely a town, is finally getting electricity. The catalyst for the story is Christy, a 60-year-old romantic, rents a room from the narrator's grandparents. He is there to census the town for the electrical project. But even more important, he had returned to see and apologize to the early love-of-his-life, Annie Moonie, the pharmacist's wife, to whom he (Christy) did a great wrong many years ago.
The narrator is young, 17. He attended seminary to please his dead mother, but is having doubts about being a priest and is taking a break.
The story takes place during a minor miracle, a rare gap in Faha weather: it doesn't rain for the duration of the book. During the course of the book, we attend Easter service, bike the countryside, drink, atttend musical sessions at rural oubs, raise the great Norwegian fir electrical poles that will carry the electricty to Fah, watch catastrophic construction accidents, fall in love with the 3 beautiful daughters of Dr. Troy, and slowly tip from old Ireland into modernity, from 17-year-old into adulthood.
William's writing is lush and slow like an Irish rivulet, and, like any visit to a new place, you wish it would never end.
The narrator is young, 17. He attended seminary to please his dead mother, but is having doubts about being a priest and is taking a break.
The story takes place during a minor miracle, a rare gap in Faha weather: it doesn't rain for the duration of the book. During the course of the book, we attend Easter service, bike the countryside, drink, atttend musical sessions at rural oubs, raise the great Norwegian fir electrical poles that will carry the electricty to Fah, watch catastrophic construction accidents, fall in love with the 3 beautiful daughters of Dr. Troy, and slowly tip from old Ireland into modernity, from 17-year-old into adulthood.
William's writing is lush and slow like an Irish rivulet, and, like any visit to a new place, you wish it would never end.