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A review by hangsawoman
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
5.0
Is it possible that we could develop an alternative model of loving each other?
This was obviously like, devastating. It's so well written. Rooney has such a tight grip on both the craft, which isn't experimental really, it feels almost like memoir-writing, but it's also certainly fictional... but she also has a tight grip on the emotion, on the political and social context of the now, the points that Frances, and Bobbi, and Nick and Melissa too, are move between. At time's it's so funny but there are parts where I felt like I couldn't read anymore because if I did I was going to be put in physical pain, especially towards the latter third. It’s maybe weird to admit how much I felt myself being folded into the story, and how some of these character’s began to resemble people in my own life.
I don't know, I just loved it. It's 2:30 in the morning and I'm going to go to bed now.
This was obviously like, devastating. It's so well written. Rooney has such a tight grip on both the craft, which isn't experimental really, it feels almost like memoir-writing, but it's also certainly fictional... but she also has a tight grip on the emotion, on the political and social context of the now, the points that Frances, and Bobbi, and Nick and Melissa too, are move between. At time's it's so funny but there are parts where I felt like I couldn't read anymore because if I did I was going to be put in physical pain, especially towards the latter third. It’s maybe weird to admit how much I felt myself being folded into the story, and how some of these character’s began to resemble people in my own life.
I don't know, I just loved it. It's 2:30 in the morning and I'm going to go to bed now.