A review by oceanographerschoice
Maurice by E.M. Forster

5.0

"I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone"

Reading this book in the midst of a period of turbulence and confusion in regards to my own sexuality was certainly an affecting and at times illuminating experience. To read a novel written in the 1910s that shows queer love as something powerful and beautiful, and that ends with such an overwhelming feeling of reckless optimism, is such a wonderful thing. Im so glad to have finally read this book after meaning to for so long. It made me feel all that I had hoped and then more.