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by Colm Tóibín
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Pippin & The Book Next Door
Pippin & The Book Next Door rated it 7 years ago
Brooklyn garners a quiet kind of appreciation for its most powerful and subtle aspects. Character development stands out among them all, as Eilis changes through moments of life that never find themselves bogged down in drama or excessive artificial tension. With a few exceptions, the supp...
Autumn Lupin Books
Autumn Lupin Books rated it 8 years ago
3.5 stars. While the book was sufficiently emotional to make me cry, I found writing bland, and the ending bland, and honestly the movie was better.
the reading chronicles
the reading chronicles rated it 9 years ago
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled...
Carissa Green Reads
Carissa Green Reads rated it 9 years ago
"Brooklyn" is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay on tonight's Academy Awards, and I am certainly excited about that. It was my favorite film of the year (although it won't win), and both the book and the adaptation were just, just perfect. The adaptation was completely faithful. The only chan...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it 9 years ago
Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn is simple storytelling at its best. This is a novel which doesn't accomplish much. It doesn't woo or provoke; it doesn't spend long developing characters or wallowing in language. It's a plot-driven story that really focuses on the story. Normally, I'm not a big fan of plot-dr...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 9 years ago
bookshelves: autumn-2015, radio-4x, booker-longlist, published-2009, impac-longlist, costa-whitbread-winner, britain-ireland, north-americas, us-new-york, period-piece, eire-wexford, migrant-experience, lit-richer, roman-catholic, racism, re-visit-2015 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read fro...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 9 years ago
3 of 5 stars bookshelves: autumn-2015, radio-4x, booker-longlist, published-2009, impac-longlist, costa-whitbread-winner, britain-ireland, north-americas, us-new-york, period-piece, eire-wexford, migrant-experience, lit-richer, roman-catholic, racism Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read on Oc...
The Blogging of a Book Addict
The Blogging of a Book Addict rated it 11 years ago
Skillfully written, deceptively simple, and incredibly thought provoking. I'm not usually one for "coming of age" stories, but I had to find a piece of Irish literature to read for an honors English assignment, and this one popped up and seemed to fulfill all the requirements. I had no idea what to ...
jbradway
jbradway rated it 13 years ago
Brooklyn is captivating and beautifully told. It's a brief and spare account of a young Irish immigrant, Eilis Lacey, making her way alone in Brooklyn after WWII.I'm becoming a fan of this author. In my frequent complaints about the seemingly requisite shock value featured in too many modern novels,...
Lavinia
Lavinia rated it 13 years ago
For what it's worth, the action could have taken place at the end of the 19th century, the beginning of the 20th or during the Great Depression. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I didn't feel the '50s, and I mean that in the good way. I was absorbed by the story and the characters - and Brookl...
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