Reviewed by Lianne on
The Good Luck of Right Now is a very quirky novel; there’s just something about it. I found it sad quite a lot of the time but it’s quite profound because despite of how Bartholomew’s life is going, he finds the good and the positive in people and in the circumstances he finds himself in; it’s just so selfless in the way he offers to help someone or open his home for someone, it’s quite refreshing and wonderful and quite inspiring to read. I also really enjoyed reading Bartholomew’s observations about people, the situations around him and the concepts that he finds himself meditating on through his letters to Richard Gere.
It was wonderful to see how Bartholomew, over the course of the novel, gains a family of his own, this makeshift group of people just trying to figure out their lives. The road trip mentioned in the book blurb actually doesn’t kick in until the last third of the novel but it amuses me to no end that they travelled to Montreal and to Ottawa.
Overall, I really enjoyed The Good Luck of Right Now. It can be sad but it can also be happy and funny and reaffirming.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 25 March, 2014: Finished reading
- 25 March, 2014: Reviewed