Dec 09, 2021umass76 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I loved Gilead and really enjoyed Home. But Lila was ponderous to read. It was a real disconnect from the heart of the other two books. It was difficult to connect with the main character. I feel the writer couldn't either. She felt false.
Sep 22, 2020merritr rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book 3 of 4 of her Pulitzer Prize winning Gilead series, Lila seemed very different from the first two. Every other main character in Gilead grew up in a very religious home, both fathers being small-town preachers in the same rural Iowa…
This book, Lila, actually stands as the 3rd book of Marilynne Robinson's Gilead series.
Book 1, title of Gilead, pub yr 2004: book 2 of title Home, yr 2008, and Lila, book 3, yr 2014.
Her novel, Gilead, won the Pulitzer Prize for…
Jul 27, 2018RogerDeBlanck rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
With her previous two novels, Gilead and Home, Marilynne Robinson established a standard of literary greatness that she once again sustains for with her novel, Lila. The three books now comprise a type of trilogy on spirituality involving…
Mar 27, 2017LPL_TriciaK rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If you want a book that rocks you to your core, this is it. Marilynn Robinson take you deep into the human experience, with an exploration of what it means to be without safety in emotional and physical terms. The main character, Lila, …
Feb 13, 2017cheriemoses rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Sadly this book was tedious to follow. Although the narrator is a poorly educated woman, Lila, much of the writing reads like John Ame's prose in Gilead. She has used the same writing style for this new main character and this gives me the…
Nov 21, 2015haileyj rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The writing reminded me of William Faulkner's writing style: very, very poor itinerant folks who are uneducated but not ignorant. They live the only life they've known with no idea of how to improve their lives. Each day is a struggle to…
Aug 29, 2015DorisWaggoner rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This slow, thoughtful, at times agonizing book is even better than its predecessors. An honest view of Lila's life, a dreadful childhood that both scars her and provides a sense of wonder. Abandonment, more than once, leads to a lack of…
Aug 12, 2015racheldm rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I am in awe of Robinson's subtle prose. Her characters are luminously real. The absence of chapter breaks can make this novel a challenge to read at times, but it is definitely worth the effort.
Mar 22, 2015brangwinn rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This very original novel appears on many of the best books of 2014 lists and it is well-deserved. It was not a comfortable book for me to read. The story of a baby stolen from her parents and raised by an old homeless migrant woman was…
Mar 13, 2015Chapel_Hill_KenMc rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The third book in Robinson's Iowa trilogy is, like the previous two, written with a quiet power that propels the story along two time frames while delving deeply into the character of the protagonist. The protagonist in this case is the…
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Oct 26, 2014Michael Colford rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
LILA is the third in Marilynne Robinson's exquisite Gilead trillogy that began with GILEAD and HOME. LILA revisits the Reverend John Ames, late in his life, but is centered around Lila, a wandering woman, taken as a child by the…
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