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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
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A slow moving, non-plot tale of young people in Ireland navigating love and friendship. Not my fave, hard to relate to all that young angst in my older years. But the reader/actor on this audiobook was amazing.
We liked and disliked the book. The characters are not great people and are terrible at communicating but it created a great discussion!
Sally Rooney has firmly established her style in this latest book. The continuity is both good and bad. Where it’s lacking is in the moments that are raunchy or otherwise rom com stylized. Where it excels is in Rooney’s expert skill at illustrating the lives of sometimes painfully awkward people.
For all her talents, this book has a more disjointed and stilted flow than her previous ones. The most cohesive thread is her thought provoking metaphy...read more
Contemporary fiction, I felt perplexed by the characters and the authors “realistic” perception of 20-30 year olds. I wish it had more plot
This book shows the complexity of human interactions and connections and the importance of community and friendship and LOVE. I loved it so much.
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