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Books of 2019: Memoir

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Best Books of 2019: four incredible memoirs I've read this year

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Have you read Normal People? Well, my adoration for Sally Rooney is confirmed - although I was pretty sure of that after reading her debut, Conversations With Friends. Normal People is the story of Marianne and Connell, their lives weaving together like a strand of DNA. 🧬 No matter how they drift apart, though, they always end up gravitating towards one another. Their relationship is complicated, given they know each other because Connell’s mother is Marianne’s family’s cleaner, meaning their experience of Trinity University is very different. I read it in a couple of sittings, and think that may be the best way to do it, as what reads as symbolic patterns of behaviour may just seem repetitive if reading over a long period of time. I must confess, though: I preferred Conversations With Friends. Did anyone else have that? #haveyoureadthis #sallyrooney #normalpeople #conversationswithfriends #bookstagram #newyearreads

Have you read Quichotte? This post serves as both a “what I’ve been reading on the beach” as well as an explanation as to why I haven’t posted in a while. I don’t even know where to start with Quichotte - so I’ll begin with a brief synopsis. It’s pronounced “key-shot” - they phonetically tell you in the book so don’t fight me. Then the plot: a TV-addict and retired salesman, Quichotte, and his imaginary son, Sancho, take a journey across America, seeking the love of Quichotte’s life - the ironically named Miss Salma R, who he knows only from her television show. A road journey, a tale of loss, love and forgiveness, of the unreality in which we live in a world of racism and absurdity, a perspective of the Indian diaspora like I’ve never read before, a commentary on society’s dependency on opioids as well as the metaphorical opioids of escapism that can be found on the other end of a screen. It has taken me three months to get through it, but that’s not to say I didn’t think it was brilliant. I was in this bizarre situation where I was clearly having a miserable time reading it, and had to keep taking leaves of absence to read other books before getting the strength to return, yet I wouldn’t stop reading it because it is undeniably superb. Perhaps it is that every sentence written by Salman Rushdie is so brimful of meaning that after a page it seems as if you have finished a novel and need a small nap. Though at times heavy handed with symbolism, it is what it sets out to be: the Don Quixote of modern times, a journey to the heart of what keeps humanity ticking, and the question of whether modernity and television is rotting its core. For the first time I find myself saying both “bravo” and “good riddance” to a book. I never want to read this bloody fantastic book again. #haveyoureadthis #quichotte #salmanrushdie #bookerprizeshortlist #donquixote #jonathancape #proofcopy #beachreading

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