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viviennemurr 's review for:
Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Have you ever read a paragraph and thought, ‘woah, this should be like 5 paragraphs. There are way too many sentences in one paragraph.’ Yea, that’s this book.
There’s rambling. There’s religion. There’s lots of reflective thoughts. Most importantly, it all runs together. A thought of one person then the next sentence is about something completely different. Sometimes a completely unrelated timeframe. Drove me nuts reading about the reverend and then St. Louis and then doll within 20 words of each other. ‘Pick a topic, stick with it,’ I found myself pleading.
A really great editor should have taken this book and split it into chapters. Dissecting the story, thoughts, ramblings and etc and put them together where they belonged; in a format that was relatable and readable.
Lila is a challenging character and has been challenged by life in many ways. Her story is sad. I would have loved to have read a more cohesive story of her life. From her childhood to adulthood. Small Lila who was taken, revived by a lonely woman, raised on the run and with a group of strangers, Lila the girl who became a woman with so much missing story in between. Lila who married and settled but never really settling within. Lila who becomes a mother but the story leaves us without telling us what becomes of her.
So much missing…
There’s rambling. There’s religion. There’s lots of reflective thoughts. Most importantly, it all runs together. A thought of one person then the next sentence is about something completely different. Sometimes a completely unrelated timeframe. Drove me nuts reading about the reverend and then St. Louis and then doll within 20 words of each other. ‘Pick a topic, stick with it,’ I found myself pleading.
A really great editor should have taken this book and split it into chapters. Dissecting the story, thoughts, ramblings and etc and put them together where they belonged; in a format that was relatable and readable.
Lila is a challenging character and has been challenged by life in many ways. Her story is sad. I would have loved to have read a more cohesive story of her life. From her childhood to adulthood. Small Lila who was taken, revived by a lonely woman, raised on the run and with a group of strangers, Lila the girl who became a woman with so much missing story in between. Lila who married and settled but never really settling within. Lila who becomes a mother but the story leaves us without telling us what becomes of her.
So much missing…