Books Read: 20

I finished this book today and it was A Room With A View by E. M. Forster. I saw a movie of this book and that is what prompted me to read it. It is about Lucy Honeychurch, who goes to Italy with her cousin Miss Bartlett and meets several other British citizens while there including Mr. Emerson and his son George Emerson. George falls in love with Lucy and kisses her on an excursion to the countryside with the group. This upset and shocks Lucy, so she leaves for Rome with her cousin. She meets Cecil, who proposes to her 3 times before she agrees to marry him. We return to England where Lucy is with her family and her fiance. A neighbor has a house to lease and gives it to the Emersons, which upsets Lucy, but she must hide for no one knows about her and George. George makes friends with Lucy's brother Freddy and spends a Sunday afternoon playing Tennis. He kisses her again and she kicks him out, but not before he tells her that he loves her and that she shouldn't marry Cecil. She breaks off her engagement, but decides she wants to travel to Greece with other friends from her trip to Italy. Mr. Emerson makes her realize that she in fact does love George and they get married and go back to Italy, which upsets her family and friends.

This was an ok book. I am not sure I liked it all that much, but I wouldn't say I hated it. I'm not sure I like this author's writing style. However, I may not like it as much because it was written for that period's audience (early 1900s) and that was a very different audience than today. It is a short book, so it is pretty easy read overall.