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Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence
Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Terminal illness
Minor: Alcoholism, Vomit
Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Drug abuse
Graphic: Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship
- I love me some Roons, but I would love to read something by her that doesn’t lean so heavily on what it’s like to be unfathomably brilliant at university in Ireland. Can she do it? Do I really care? Will I read it all and love it all anyway? Of course.
- She has a section at the end with notes about quotes and references that she’s used across the book, particularly in Peter’s mind. I really loved the way she wove all of these in. Peter’s stream of conscious read intuitively to me, and I appreciated that I got some references and didn’t get others—which is how conversations with friends (indulge me) usually work—but that she left me a trail of breadcrumbs at the end. I suppose that what I like most about Sally Rooney is that her style reads intuitively to me—her characters think like I do.
- She is weirdly good at sex scenes. I couldn’t help but wonder (now we’e really indulging me) if the sex scenes read equally well across genders, or if there’s something specifically for the female experience here. They’re really not that explicit but they are still somehow steamy and moving across a variety of pairings.
- God, do we all say actually and literally that much?
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent
Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Police brutality, Car accident
Graphic: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness
Minor: Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent