Sally rooney conversations with friends3/28/2023 ![]() Less than five months after I read it for the first time, I was rereading. This is my last shred of rereading-related logic and sanity. My sole limit has always been that I must wait at least one year after my initial read before reading it again. ![]() (I also seem to have a problem with buying blue books, specifically.)Īnyway. If I die mysteriously, I was probably crushed by the blue stack. ![]() Previously I was way too picky about adding books to my to-read list to suffer a massive TBR issue, but now that I’m barely reading new books, the pile (which is a physical one in the corner of my room, stacked by color because a) rainbow shelves forever and b) I am out of shelf space) is looming. It’s reached a concerning point - seemingly 1 in 3 or 4 books I read is actually a reread. Written with gem-like precision and probing intelligence, Conversations With Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth." Desperate to reconcile herself to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally even with Bobbi. But however amusing their flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy neither of them expect. Private property, Frances believes, is a cultural evil-and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his potential, looks like patriarchy made flesh. ![]() Drawn into Melissa's orbit, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband. Lovers at school, the two young women now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist named Melissa spots their potential. A college student and aspiring writer, she devotes herself to a life of the mind-and to the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and comrade-in-arms. A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they forge with a married couple.įrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed, and darkly observant. ![]()
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