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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
i devoured this in hours. This is love rosie mixed with normal people mixed with waiting room and moon song by phoebe bridgers
Holy fucking shit. how dare this book be so well written and so fucking frustrating and heart-wrenching and maddening and achingly beautiful.
This could have been tightened up a bit; it didn't need to be 400 pages.
But, I do love a messy love story with flawed characters.
But, I do love a messy love story with flawed characters.
It was like reading the notebook but more upsetting and heartbreaking. I want this to be a movie so so so bad
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was so unnecessarily dramatic it was irritating. For being entitled “Talking at Night,” the characters actually did very little talking and if they HAD 75% of their annoying problems would have been resolved. Plus, ALL the relationships were so highly dysfunctional, including the one between Rosie and Will. Unfortunately, the book fell into the unhealthy soulmate logic that ending up with the “one” will solve all your problems and ultimately bring happiness. Also really concerned that neither Will nor Rosie grew or matured since they were 17. “You’re still the same as you were in high school” is NOT a compliment.
A book that is what its title purports it to be: conversations between the two main characters, mostly at night, throughout decades where they try to figure out if they can be everything they want to be to one another. But it's so much more than that.
You know from the literal first page that something awful is going to happen, and yet when it did happen I was not emotionally prepared. I walked away from the book for the night, only to come back to it eagerly the next day, ready to see how Claire Daverley would continue Rosie and Will's journey.
This is a novel of fully formed characters: a mostly awful, but well-intentioned mother who gets moments of humanity. Partners who are decent and kind but not saintly. Main characters who don't do the right thing every time, but who step up in unexpected ways.
I alternated between the page and the audio book and I listened to a solid couple of hours while taking a walk on a gloomy Sunday by a pond, which felt like the appropriate way to ingest that section of this British story.
I read a lot of books this year and yet this one will be one that will probably sit in my bones for a lot longer than any other.
You know from the literal first page that something awful is going to happen, and yet when it did happen I was not emotionally prepared. I walked away from the book for the night, only to come back to it eagerly the next day, ready to see how Claire Daverley would continue Rosie and Will's journey.
This is a novel of fully formed characters: a mostly awful, but well-intentioned mother who gets moments of humanity. Partners who are decent and kind but not saintly. Main characters who don't do the right thing every time, but who step up in unexpected ways.
I alternated between the page and the audio book and I listened to a solid couple of hours while taking a walk on a gloomy Sunday by a pond, which felt like the appropriate way to ingest that section of this British story.
I read a lot of books this year and yet this one will be one that will probably sit in my bones for a lot longer than any other.
So heartwarming and beautiful. Not the most original story, very similar to one day and normal people, but a quick beautiful read reflecting a slow burn once in a lifetime love. Had a great time reading!
Bu kitap benim kalbimi kırdı, onardı, sonra bir daha kırdı ve bu şekilde bir kaç kere tekrarladı. Üzgünüm, kitap bittiği için üzgünüm. Rosie için, Will için üzgünüm. Çok güzeldi ama, harika bir şekilde kalbimi kırdı bu kitap.