Conversations with Friends by Sally RooneyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
What in the actual— AHAHAHAHA THE ENDING SUCKS BIG TIME AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The reading journey is entertaining though. Sally Rooney is truly a writer of lusty intervals, a typical novel you can put in a cottage for summer getaways. She can write about sex without being too flowery or to porn-ish. Very transactional, like reading a book, or writing an essay.
Sally fleshed out Frances as the antiheroine, although the prose is a longer version of her short story named Mr. Salary. Frances is such a boring persona outside, but inside she's a screaming introspection. I loved reading her thoughts. They are so unreliable sometimes that you even question your memory.
There's the usual literary engines in this novel that depicts the millenial vibe: Mental Health, Spoken Poetry, and Painful periods. I kind of like that, Sally stamped herself in a literary generation of sorts. Not much like post-Post-modern, but you can place her in a separate table in a bookstore.
In her three novels, I liked Normal People the best (because of the in-betweens), and Beautiful World, Where Are You in the second place (because of her composite character dating a seemingly-Amazon-warehouse employee). This book, not much. But this created the wave for Sally to be known in the literary scene, so kudos to her.
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