Sunday, October 22, 2017

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Heard about this on the Slate Audio Club Podcast and the women were raving, so I got it out of the Library. It's very well written and the plot moves quickly. I did enjoy it but didn't love it.

Boy, the New Yorker reviewer sure did:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/a-new-kind-of-adultery-novel

Here's a good quote that says a lot about the book:

 Rooney’s book glitters with talk, much of it between Frances, the novel’s narrator, and Bobbi, her best friend, two Trinity students supremely gifted in the collegiate sport of competitive banter. Observations, theories, and quips about the world fly between the friends like so many shuttlecocks in a conversation that never ends, because conversations, in our world of screens, don’t have to. They just change format, so that a discussion begun in person continues through texts or e-mails or, as in the following dialogue, instant messages



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