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chaptersofmay 's review for:
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Ugh this book. I don’t even know how to move on with my life after this book. It’s a big read. A draining story that completely engulfs you. And I loved every minute of it. If you’re thinking about reading this book, stop thinking and just read it. You need to read it.
From the beginning, I was obsessed with the world of Marianne and Connell. They are phenomenally authentic characters, with realistic lives, genuine conversation and a real fascination with one another. I almost with they were real. Their lives are completely different, yet they seem so similar to me. I really feel like I knew them as people, they were just characters.
The story follows their lives from 2011 to 2015, and focuses on a major part of growing up and becoming an adult. They face the problems many young people are challenged with, as well as their feelings towards one another.
This novel is a love story, but it’s not romantic. There are cute moments, but it’s not written to create this fictional, dreamy love story. It’s realistic, humbling and earthy. It’s dark, has twists and an array of characters. Sally Rooney perfectly captures the multi-layered aspects of friendship, love and life.
The book doesn’t promote perfection. It felt real and raw. I believed the story I was reading. It captures reality in the best way. Rooney’s writing and vision for this is incredible.
It’s a novel that has altered the way I look at life and challenges that I face as a young person. It had the same type of effect on me that The Catcher in the Rye had, and I think Normal People is just as good.
I couldn’t put this book down from the beginning, it’s intense accuracy of human weakness, thinking and behaviour makes this one of the best books I have read so far this year.
From the beginning, I was obsessed with the world of Marianne and Connell. They are phenomenally authentic characters, with realistic lives, genuine conversation and a real fascination with one another. I almost with they were real. Their lives are completely different, yet they seem so similar to me. I really feel like I knew them as people, they were just characters.
The story follows their lives from 2011 to 2015, and focuses on a major part of growing up and becoming an adult. They face the problems many young people are challenged with, as well as their feelings towards one another.
This novel is a love story, but it’s not romantic. There are cute moments, but it’s not written to create this fictional, dreamy love story. It’s realistic, humbling and earthy. It’s dark, has twists and an array of characters. Sally Rooney perfectly captures the multi-layered aspects of friendship, love and life.
The book doesn’t promote perfection. It felt real and raw. I believed the story I was reading. It captures reality in the best way. Rooney’s writing and vision for this is incredible.
It’s a novel that has altered the way I look at life and challenges that I face as a young person. It had the same type of effect on me that The Catcher in the Rye had, and I think Normal People is just as good.
I couldn’t put this book down from the beginning, it’s intense accuracy of human weakness, thinking and behaviour makes this one of the best books I have read so far this year.