📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Normal People
AUTHOR: Sally Rooney
#Sally Rooney ⠀
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: April 16, 2019
https://amzn.to/2ZS7GLa
I heard a lot about this book which is one of the reasons I wanted to read it. There was a lot of buzz about how it personifies how this current generation feels about life and relationships.⠀
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Overall, this book does deal with a “will they, won’t they” storyline but the underlying theme really is more complex than that. For me it was a difficult read, not because of how it was written, but because the conversation was lacking in completion. What this means to me is that there was so much left unsaid between the two main characters that led to misunderstanding and the inability to fully explore their complete feelings for each other. ⠀
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Other themes explored in this book are depression and anxiety, which I definitely appreciated. I recommend this book because it really makes you think about how in this current age, communication is not as specific as is used to be and what the consequences are for that.⠀
Small Summary:
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers – one they are determined to conceal.
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.
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I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.