Conversations With Friends

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Rooney, Sally	4-week checkout	Due 09-09-2024
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Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and tall, handsome husband, Nick. However amusing and ironic Frances and Nick's flirtation seems at first, it gives way to a strange intimacy, and Frances's friendship with Bobbi begins to fracture. As Frances tries to keep her life in check, her relationships increasingly resist her control: with Nick, with her difficult and unhappy father, and finally, terribly, with Bobbi. Desperate to reconcile her inner life to the desires and vulnerabilities of her body, Frances's intellectual certainties begin to yield to something new: a painful and disorienting way of living from moment to moment. Written with gem-like precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship. --Amazon.

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Typical submitted by WolfWillow27994 on August 2, 2017, 12:40pm Unoriginal take on promoting woman's strength.

Frustrating main characters submitted by jaromatorio on July 22, 2019, 12:25pm I really enjoy Sally Rooney’s writing style, but I found the two main characters in this novel to be incredibly frustrating.

Study on relationships submitted by ferielp on July 23, 2021, 9:28am Sally Rooney's work focuses on the misunderstandings and frustrations of poor communication. The things we leave unsaid and the feelings we hide, and the damage all that can do to even the oldest relationships.

Not my favorite Rooney submitted by Springstead37 on July 22, 2023, 9:32pm I really loved "Normal People" and was excited to read this one. I was disappointed. I found it slow and tedious with a few enjoyable passages.

Hard to Read submitted by sophiamc on August 23, 2023, 6:21pm Normal People was a very enjoyable read and I love Rooney's writing style, but this book felt slow and not attention-grabbing.

Annoying characters submitted by cwalton1999 on July 14, 2024, 9:29pm I was excited to read this book because of the hype but oh boy. The main character was annoying. The side characters also awful. I’m glad I don’t know anybody like these people in real life. It’s pretty much the story of a young girl falling for a married man. No twist. No happy ending. No sad ending. Does it work out for them? Who knows?

I did not like this book submitted by lakeabigail on July 17, 2024, 6:44am I did not like anything about this book. I wish I had not read it.

unpopular opinion submitted by harringtonm on August 13, 2024, 6:50pm but i really liked this book?? and was almost more invested in them than marianne and connell???