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A review by starryeyedenigma
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
3.0
What? Two romances back to back? heheh
In hindsight, maybe I shouldve read this before I read the fast paced dialogue heavy Dani Brown romance because it took me a while to get a hang of the narrative style in this book. There's very little dialogue and sometimes the scenes and the narrator's thoughts, although beautiful and romantic and melancholic, felt repetitive.
All that said, once you overcome these hiccups, its really a lovely and heartbreaking love story of Elio and Oliver. The description of the summer days in Italy and Rome, where the story is set is simply breath taking! I wish I can be part of such gatherings, lazy summer days of biking and swimming, summer evenings of discussing books, long dinners, conversations, music and love, one day too :)
The famous peach scene was not of my taste, but if you like explicit descriptions in your romance, this is definitely one to read.
I picked up this book to read after I saw the trailer of the movie with Sam Smith's Fire on Fire playing in the background and I love Armie and Timothee so much that I had to read the book :) Now I cant wait to watch the movie..
In hindsight, maybe I shouldve read this before I read the fast paced dialogue heavy Dani Brown romance because it took me a while to get a hang of the narrative style in this book. There's very little dialogue and sometimes the scenes and the narrator's thoughts, although beautiful and romantic and melancholic, felt repetitive.
All that said, once you overcome these hiccups, its really a lovely and heartbreaking love story of Elio and Oliver. The description of the summer days in Italy and Rome, where the story is set is simply breath taking! I wish I can be part of such gatherings, lazy summer days of biking and swimming, summer evenings of discussing books, long dinners, conversations, music and love, one day too :)
The famous peach scene was not of my taste, but if you like explicit descriptions in your romance, this is definitely one to read.
I picked up this book to read after I saw the trailer of the movie with Sam Smith's Fire on Fire playing in the background and I love Armie and Timothee so much that I had to read the book :) Now I cant wait to watch the movie..