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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There was very little dialog a whole lot of description. I need the pace to move along, and I do like some description of the sounding and the people, it was a bit too much for me.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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
A coming of age story set in a left behind village in Ireland. Williams majes it sound like a idyll, which is not realistic, but enjoyable. I liked the characters best. He writes very well.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
The language and insight to human character and community is so beautifully crafted
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Just lovely and atmospheric, you really felt like you were in this small town. Rang true to adolescence too.
hopeful
lighthearted
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:
Complicated
This is Happiness by Niall Williams is like sitting with an old Irish man while he goes on and on and on telling you about one particular summer when he was a young man and lived with his grandparents in the small town of Faha. that summer the rain had stopped and electricity came to town.
it took me almost a month to get through this book, it's very slow paced. our main character Noel would start in one place and then go off telling all sorts of little stories within the larger story, the way a person sometimes does when telling a story in real life. I'm not sure if it was this narrative style that didn't fully work for me or if it was the story itself.
I read the physical book along side the audiobook. the audiobook was very good, it really made you feel like you were sitting there with Noel as he told you all about that one summer.
it took me almost a month to get through this book, it's very slow paced. our main character Noel would start in one place and then go off telling all sorts of little stories within the larger story, the way a person sometimes does when telling a story in real life. I'm not sure if it was this narrative style that didn't fully work for me or if it was the story itself.
I read the physical book along side the audiobook. the audiobook was very good, it really made you feel like you were sitting there with Noel as he told you all about that one summer.
nothing in the story held me and made me want to continue. DNF
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Set during the author's 17th year in 50s rural Ireland and the coming of electricity. It's about not taking life for granted, ultimately, and lost love, and first love. It's a gentle book.