I was so excited to read Room with a View, but ultimately I wasn't really all that taken with it! The side characters were really funny and well-crafted (Charlotte! Miss Lavish! So good) but Lucy and George just weren't that interesting and didn't have particularly strong personalities?! Which was strange since obviously Forster is capable of writing a wide variety of interesting people! The only time I really got into it was towards the end when she breaks off her engagement and gets all heated about feminism, that was good. There are some beautiful passages about Italy, though. LET'S GO. I was so drawn to the idea of the boarding houses! I guess the modern equivalent would be youth hostels, but I'd much rather lodge with kindly old British ladies who eat crumpets, etc than drunk Australian teenagers.
The edition I had was beautiful, though (SEE ABOVE). The paper was nice and thick and the illustration on the cover was pretty. And it smelled good (not creepy).
NEXT UP: Villette by Charlotte Bronte! PUMPED.
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