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A beautiful novel, surprising for its time

Maurice by E.M. Forster

October 15, 2023 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR15 BINGO: Queer Lives, because it focuses on a gay man in Edwardian times BINGO: Politics, Africa, On the Road, Queer Lives, Bodies, Bodies Some spoilers included Maurice may not be E.M. Forster’s best or most famous novel, but it’s a lovely, heart-felt, and surprising story, particularly given the era in which it was created. Written in 1913, the novel wasn’t published until 1971, a year after Forster died. Homosexuality wasn’t decriminalized in the United Kingdom until 1967, so a story about love between men […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classics, E.M. Forster, KimMiE", LGBT fiction

KimMiE"'s CBR15 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR15, cbr15bingo, classics, E.M. Forster, KimMiE", LGBT fiction ·
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A Passage to India

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

August 3, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo – Hot – I am calling this hot because of all the times the English characters complain about the heat. “Hot” being entirely relative of course, and the main thrust of the book about the English failure to recognize the interiority of the Indian characters. In addition, the heat plays an important role in the novel throughout leading to specific events that tell us about the different characters, but also acts as a kind of metaphor of how the British Raj specifically tried to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, E.M. Forster, hot

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:408 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, E.M. Forster, hot ·
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One of the first queer novels has a happy ending.

Maurice by E.M. Forster

December 21, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.” -E.M. Forster Secretly, E.M. Forster had the heart of a romance novelist. I say that half in jest, but also half seriously. Romance novel HEA’s are serious business. We come to them for solace, for surety and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: E.M. Forster, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary, maurice, narfna

narfna's CBR13 Review No:187 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: E.M. Forster, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary, maurice, narfna ·
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“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

October 10, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

When thinking about my White Whale pick for Bingo this year I was coming up short. Then the Go Fug Yourself Book Club on Goodreads voted to read A Room with a View for October and I found my whale. Many classics are heavy reads, but I found A Room with a View to be refreshingly light on the whole with some lively characters. It’s an accessible story, funny, biting, poignant, wistful, romantic. It’s a study of (mostly) good people, who love one another as […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, classic, E.M. Forster, muddles, white whale

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:46 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, classic, E.M. Forster, muddles, white whale ·
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“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice”

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

June 5, 2021 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

There’s always classics I’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten to yet, and summers are in part a chance to chip away at that long, long list (so many books! so little time). E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View was the latest to be ticked off the list, and it’s a nice one to get around to. Forster’s second novel, after Where Angels Fear to Tread, it’s a brisk, breezy, Austenesque volume that comes in under 200 pages: quick, spritely, and while it clearly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: British Classics, classic literature, E.M. Forster

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: British Classics, classic literature, E.M. Forster ·
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Posh Historical English Boys In Love

Maurice by E. M. Forster

January 14, 2021 by Singsonggirl 3 Comments

First review! I hope I’ve figured it all out and this doesn’t look completely terrible. Also, I’m not fully sure yet how I’ll use the rating system, so there might be adjustments in the future. To the book: A friend has recommended this to me, I’ve seen bits of the movie on TV, but I mostly only remember how ridiculously beautiful young Hugh Grant was. I’m definitely planning on seeing the whole film now, because the book is something else. While reading it, I quickly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1910s, E.M. Forster, Fiction, gay fiction, historical, Love Stories, maurice

Singsonggirl's CBR13 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1910s, E.M. Forster, Fiction, gay fiction, historical, Love Stories, maurice ·
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