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Laddar... Just Like Youav Nick Hornby
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   ) ellink | Jan 22, 2024 |   ) kparr | Aug 1, 2023 | Lucy is a 42-year-old white, divorced mother of two boys. Joseph is a 22-year-old Black man still living at home and getting by in the "gig" economy with a portfolio of jobs. When they first meet, Lucy is looking for a babysitter (one of Joseph's jobs). But there is a spark. How far can two people of such different backgrounds go? Add in the societal views of inter-racial relationships and May-December relationships where the woman is the older partner and it seems there are so many reasons why this just won't work. Nick Hornby is a master of writing about everyday life and his characters are like people you might actually know. This is a funny (at times), frustrating (at times) story that left me thinking about love. (  ) LynnB | Nov 26, 2022 | I read this after rereading High Fidelity but it doesn’t really share the latter’s witty, insightful and intensely personal prose -- perhaps because this time Hornby is writing about people and experiences he’s less intimately acquainted with? I agree with this Guardian review: Lucy and Joseph are likeable, and “The simple fact of their love is convincing; what is less effectively conveyed is just how this relationship works, neither the glue nor the chemistry truly apparent.” ( ) Herenya | Sep 24, 2022 | Nick Hornby hat für solche Konstellationen ein Auge und ein gutes Gespür. Wie immer unaufgeregt, nett und sehr britisch-humorig erzählt. Die Verbindung mit dem Brexit finde ich sehr klug, weil die vermeintlichen Abgründe, die Lucies und Joseph's Beziehung angeblich unmöglich machen sollten, von ganz anderen Kluften quer durch die britische Gesellschaft gekreuzt werden. Stark finde ich, wie gut Hornby die Sichtweise von Brexit--Befürworter:innen in ihrem sozialen Kontext verständlich macht, ohne sich diese zu eigen zu machen. Man merkt den Sozialpädagogen, der er glaube ich im Ursprungsberuf einmal war und im Herzen wohl immer noch ist. Schönes Buch, gern gelesen. ( ) Florian_Brennstoff | Aug 7, 2022 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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HTML:[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy. The Boston Globe A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy. People, Best of Fall 2020 This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script shed been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, shes a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isnt exactly looking for loveshes more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. Its not a match anyone one could have predicted. Hes of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through. Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible personsomeone you didnt see coming. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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