Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

5 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Best one of the series for me. Captured the COVID years pretty accurately.

Having gone through 9/11 and now being 23 years later, seeing kids grow up without it being taught in schools, seeing how those who know what it was but wasn’t there to experience it can only view it as a point in time, makes me think it’ll be the same for future generations regarding COVID and that this book could help them to grasp a sliver of a semblance of what that period was like for many of us.

I think the book also did a pretty good job of capturing the essence of conflict lots of mothers and daughters, the longing of our mothers to be closer and the distance daughters need to grow into their own stories.

I still think William isn’t good enough for Lucy, but he is certainly devoted to her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kathleen_theresa's review against another edition

She sympathizes with the participants of the January 6th incursion after acknowledging their were self identified nazis in the group and they were assaulting overwhelmed, underarmed security members. She explains people who grew up poor and stay in the poverty can become resentful and then takes a completely unfounded leap to say poverty can lead to that being reacting in that way. Hateful? Violent? Whatever your interpretation it’s deeply insulting to people in poverty. I grew up low income and it in no way impacted my morality. 
I overlooked A LOT of white and financial privilege but at three quarters of the way it was too much.  Furthermore, books like these that offer so little depth into poverty, classism, and child abuse allow these critically important issues to continue to be overlooked and minimized. Collectively it’s shameful this book is as popular as it is as it’s likely contributing to the siloed views of the privileged. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and Classism

hannahcstocks's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Pregnancy, Dysphoria, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Medical trauma

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Racism, Police brutality, and Classism

erica_cb's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Miscarriage

Minor: Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Car accident, and Classism

feebles640's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Dementia, and Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

The book covers 2020/2021 and discusses current events in America at that time (covid 19, black lives matter, Trump, attack on capital)