Silly Sally - My First Read

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The author has made two explicit points about her being Irish:

1. The characters believed in God, even though some of them are not religious Catholics. Agnostic, even.
2. They discuss about social class. Even in their daily conversations!!! Who's literate or not, who hates their current job or what's one doing to get all the high-paying gigs and whatnot and so on and so forth.

Sa Pilipinas kasi, ang mga nag-uusap ng mga ganito ay maka-kaliwa, or ND Movement, or mga petit-burgis hipsters sa Catch22 lol

There are chapters that are not interesting enough:
1. Felix's daily grind in an Amazon-like warehouse outside of Dublin
2. The angsty episodes of Eileen (I think Sally created her for the white angsty drama, where she doesn't mind earning low pay because she has parents who love her and have a family home, but still this babaita thinks that her life is sad and miserable—until the last part of the book!!!)
3. Simon's INFJisas Kristo complexity of wanting to help young pathetic women (hahakdog, very first-world writing style, I know)

But the writing is entertaining, and I also cried for a bit when Felix sang a song and Alice looked at him and went ugly crying. My heart was tugged at that moment too. Maybe somehow I relate to that moment, I don't know. Maybe I was an Alice before who was looking for a man who doesn't like me really, but then found a man who really likes me. UwU

Good thing that I read this during this Pandemic as I can also relate to the bleak outlook of the future but still marching on.

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