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Just finished intermezzo. Could barely read the last 20 pages I was crying so much. If that sounds like something you’d like, I’d recommend it!
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I loved Normal People and seems like everything I read from Sally Rooney after that just fell flat. Highly unlikeable characters, ok plot. I didn’t hold my breath for Intermezzo, but wow. Might be her best book yet. She writes the way I think about things, which can always be jarring when you’re starting one of her books, but eventually it feels like she’s in your head, transcribing your thoughts as you look around the made up world she creates.
I find it hard to relate to male characters, but she finds the humanity in everyone and I was tearing up towards the end.
I feel like she’s been getting tons of criticism lately for writing “boring” stories, people saying they DNFd her books, but I devoured Intermezzo.
Jan 4, 2025
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I read this in one day and it was nothing but a page turner.
It’s kind of haunting so perhaps this would have been a better suggestion in October. However, I believe it is set around the winter holidays so maybe it’s the perfect time!
Nov 28, 2024
After a highly anticipated wait I finally received my copy from the library this morning. I’m already 4 chapters in—couldn’t stop reading—and it’s spectacular. Easily her best book since Normal People, if not better. As always Rooney’s characters are complex and flawed, but that’s what makes them loveable. I like how she writes Peter’s prose in the style of James Joyce—it reads like Ulysses.
Next up: Boulder, The Parisian, and Borders, Human Itineraries and All Our Relation.
Nov 10, 2024
