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fmoreno 's review for:
Filha do Mar
by Elizabeth Gilbert
3, 5 stars
Elizabeth is one of my favorite writers and because of that, I need to read every book she ever wrote and will ever write. She is one of my favorite writers for a lot of things, but one of them is because of her writing. I love how versatile her writing is - how she writes memoirs, writes fiction, writes non-fiction all with the same wonderful style. She has a peculiar writing and that is especially noticeable when she writes fiction. Stern Men certainly shows that and people who are familiar with her work can recognize in this book something of a experiment. What I see in this book is Elizabeth making an experiment with her writing, honing it, perfecting to the writing we know and recognize as wonderful in later books. I see her trying to establish her own unique style of authorship.
About the story, I quite liked it. I suppose I was expecting a little bit more romance but I admit I was fooled by the synopsis of the book. What I got was a story about a fierce girl who didn't always know where she belonged or what to do with her life, who refused to live the life others planned for her and that eventually found her purpose in life and kicked ass. But that is okay for me because I enjoyed Ruth Thomas and some other characters like Senator Addams, Mrs. Pommeroy, Angus (although he's so rude) and even Mr. Ellis.
I enjoyed knowing more about the lobster business as was something I didn't know anything about. All in all, I was not disappointed. It is not the best book I have ever read, but I enjoyed enough to read it in just a little more than two days.
Elizabeth is one of my favorite writers and because of that, I need to read every book she ever wrote and will ever write. She is one of my favorite writers for a lot of things, but one of them is because of her writing. I love how versatile her writing is - how she writes memoirs, writes fiction, writes non-fiction all with the same wonderful style. She has a peculiar writing and that is especially noticeable when she writes fiction. Stern Men certainly shows that and people who are familiar with her work can recognize in this book something of a experiment. What I see in this book is Elizabeth making an experiment with her writing, honing it, perfecting to the writing we know and recognize as wonderful in later books. I see her trying to establish her own unique style of authorship.
About the story, I quite liked it. I suppose I was expecting a little bit more romance but I admit I was fooled by the synopsis of the book. What I got was a story about a fierce girl who didn't always know where she belonged or what to do with her life, who refused to live the life others planned for her and that eventually found her purpose in life and kicked ass. But that is okay for me because I enjoyed Ruth Thomas and some other characters like Senator Addams, Mrs. Pommeroy, Angus (although he's so rude) and even Mr. Ellis.
I enjoyed knowing more about the lobster business as was something I didn't know anything about. All in all, I was not disappointed. It is not the best book I have ever read, but I enjoyed enough to read it in just a little more than two days.