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it's truly hard to imagine a topic i'd less like to read about than people in their 20s sleeping with teenagers, but this is still by sally rooney, so my emotions are mixed.
Starting to wonder if Sally Rooney is capable of writing characters that aren't utterly and completely unlikeable.
So much with few words. Rooney sure has talent. I enjoy her short stories as much as her novels.
3.5I really liked this??? I love how sally rooney portrays emptinessI want to cry, kind of lol
I absolutely love how Irish her dialogue is, I feel like I'm reading about my friends
"It was after sunset and the sky was ice blue, the colour of science fiction." 3,5
"Housework, its impermanence and repetition, its continual undoing by others every day, became the concrete representation of every unhappiness in my life. Nothing I did stayed done"
read at the dublin review: https://thedublinreview.com/article/c...“evan was still standing there in the water looking up at me and i laughed and said: what? he shook his head and said: nothing, what do you mean? that was good, i was glad he said that.”rooney is excellent!! her intentions are right and her expressions are right! her prose is in roughly equal weights personal and distant—“when he was inside me i felt so good that i pledged to be a different person for the rest of my life, a good
3.5sally rooney could kick me in the shins and i’d say thank you
sally rooney fans really will read anything just to experience other people being sad and talking without quotation marks
(3.5)This makes me sad. What's new?
begs to ask the very important question are you really a sad girl if you have never kissed a boy to avoid having to think about the consequences of capitalism?
4.5I absolutely loved this. This one falls on the heavier side of Rooney's writing pieces, but she once again perfectly captures messiness of flawed everyday relationships. Some people just take longer to feel truly happy, and I loved how she portrayed this through Miriam. She always relied on sources outside of herself to give her fulfillment, and that was perfectly shown in her questionable relationship choices. Brilliant, as always.
3.5⭐️ Short story from The Dublin Review
i love how sally's prose can jump from this Housework, its impermanence and repetition, its continual undoing by others every day, became the concrete representation of every unhappiness in my life. Nothing I did stayed done. to this The inside of Evan’s mouth haunted me, like the prospect of material wealth.
Rooney just writes this period of transition from school to college / early twenties do well. She creates such mood and atmosphere from such sparse prose - the use of silence and pauses is so impressive but also this apathy / emptiness of existence.Lots of crossover here with ideas more fully realised in ‘Normal People’ - she just has such a great sense for the awkwardness of relationships.
everytime i gave 4 stars to a Rooney book i go through it in my mind when i’m alone and walking, then i realize i wanted to gave 5 stars but it did hurt me bad so it took me couple of alone walks to accept that it’s actually -like she says- normal to feel that way
Why is it so hard to be happy in Rooney's world? But again, she makes it all worth it and you never really wanna leave.
Can't decide between I LOVE THIS or I HATE THIS!!! Those kinda mixed feelings.
