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A review by samahcanread__
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
adventurous
challenging
informative
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
I always read books about couple in their twenties and thirties managing their love life; marriages, falling out of love, second chances and being head over heels with each others. But I never understood the level of maturity age brings to love when you read a certain age; when you have lived a full life, when you had every chance life can offer, when you have enough time to rethink your life and how different things would've been, coming face to face with the choices and the trauma and the journey you took.
Lucy and William has been divorced for many years, but kept a close friendship, where Lucy was always trying to understood this mystery of her ex-husband. There is an understanding of each other that only come with time and many uphill battles and many trials they faced.
There is a sense of being comfortable in your own skin that comes with age, that I wish and pray I reach when I'm over the uncertainties of my twenties.
The writing style is something I never read before; there is a warmth, a coziness between the lines, despite the fact that the style of narration is jumping between years and not as coherent as I most stories come to be. Maybe it is a reflection of that sense of being in your sixties and things are running in your head in a way that isn't linear; you lived a full life, and everything is connected through memories and scents and places, that make things come to you in waves.
I loved this book. It made me miss my grandparents. I wish I had more time with them.
Lucy and William has been divorced for many years, but kept a close friendship, where Lucy was always trying to understood this mystery of her ex-husband. There is an understanding of each other that only come with time and many uphill battles and many trials they faced.
There is a sense of being comfortable in your own skin that comes with age, that I wish and pray I reach when I'm over the uncertainties of my twenties.
The writing style is something I never read before; there is a warmth, a coziness between the lines, despite the fact that the style of narration is jumping between years and not as coherent as I most stories come to be. Maybe it is a reflection of that sense of being in your sixties and things are running in your head in a way that isn't linear; you lived a full life, and everything is connected through memories and scents and places, that make things come to you in waves.
I loved this book. It made me miss my grandparents. I wish I had more time with them.