A Room With a View

Smart cozy skewering of English class and respectability, old Europe's wonder and modern sensibility, flipping effortlessly between interior mental changes and a range of characters observations with the author's judgement right alongside.

I try to get swept away by the romance of it, and I enjoy Forster's writing a lot, but I just can't believe that two people can love each other enough to build a life together when they've had like three conversations with each other. I just can't suspend that disbelief. Maybe I really am aromantic.

It took me a good while to get in to this book. Because of all the old English tye writing, I wasn't sure what to think. I'm so glad that I finished this book, because I genuinely liked Lucy. I also wanted to know who she was going to end up wih. :)

I appreciate some of the wording, cultural commentary, and pithy lines, but the story and most of the dialogue was not gripping.

I may have enjoyed this more if I had read it on paper. I had misinterpreted the digital "page count" on the goodreads copy of the book and was expecting a much shorter piece. I can't handle reading books on an iPhone any longer than 150 (normal) pages.