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Writer's pictureCaitriona Drexler

Conversations with Friends - Review

Updated: Sep 8, 2022

๐”น๐• ๐• ๐•œ โ„๐•–๐•ง๐•š๐•–๐•จ

๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด by Sally Rooney

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โ€œThings matter to me more than they do to normal people, I thought. I need to relax and let things go. I should experiment with drugs.โ€


Sally Rooney has quickly become one of my favorite authors. ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ was my first book of hers, and I remember being shocked by her unique writing style. No quotation marks around dialogue? What!! But I got over it fast and fell in love. The dialogue is casual, like a friend telling you about their day. Her characters are always the same, but I love the type castingโ€”intelligent people who donโ€™t know what to do with life and how to handle love.


This book, like her others, circles around the themes of depression and anxiety. Frances is a young college student who writes poetry. With no money, an alcoholic dad, and an unsympathetic mom, her life becomes even heavier when she begins to develop feelings for a married man.


Now, I hate cheating. I donโ€™t like love stories about cheating. But this story had me hooked and deeply involved in Francesโ€™ story. I found myself routing for these two. And the more Nick revealed about himself and his relationship with his wife, the more I loved him and wanted him to find happiness with Frances.


So far, the three books Iโ€™ve read by Sally Rooney have all been 5 stars for me. I canโ€™t wait to read everything she has ever written and let all the misery and emotional distress consume me.


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