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pickledarling 's review for:
Abide with Me
by Elizabeth Strout
Some thoughts:
- I’ve read 7 of her books so far and I think she is my favourite contemporary writer.
- “Confusion will prevent you from being dogmatic.”
- Without spoiling it, there is a big, climactic moment toward the end of the novel, and how Strout describes the aftermath is this: “Telephones did not ring from house to house that day.”
- It took me a little while to get into this novel (especially after reading Amy & Isabelle and all the Lucy Barton ones including Tell Me Everything) but there are some big reveals in the second half of the book which kind of change your whole perception of everything.
- I read a version of the book with a small note from Strout at the end, and the way she describes how she is ‘always trying to keep the moss of cynicism and sentimentality from obscuring’ her writing explain why she is one of my favourites.
- “None of us have a centre of gravity. We’re tugged and pulled by competing forces every minute and we hold on as best we can.”
- The way the Bonhoeffer stuff connects with the main story is extremely satisfying.
- I’ve read 7 of her books so far and I think she is my favourite contemporary writer.
- “Confusion will prevent you from being dogmatic.”
- Without spoiling it, there is a big, climactic moment toward the end of the novel, and how Strout describes the aftermath is this: “Telephones did not ring from house to house that day.”
- It took me a little while to get into this novel (especially after reading Amy & Isabelle and all the Lucy Barton ones including Tell Me Everything) but there are some big reveals in the second half of the book which kind of change your whole perception of everything.
- I read a version of the book with a small note from Strout at the end, and the way she describes how she is ‘always trying to keep the moss of cynicism and sentimentality from obscuring’ her writing explain why she is one of my favourites.
- “None of us have a centre of gravity. We’re tugged and pulled by competing forces every minute and we hold on as best we can.”
- The way the Bonhoeffer stuff connects with the main story is extremely satisfying.