Tag: Sally Rooney

• Intermezzo

  “What if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”

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  30th May 2025

  Book Review: Fiction

  Faber, Fiction, Intermezzo, Irish Literature, Sally Rooney

• Two Stories

  “It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance.”

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  30th Nov 2021

  Book Review: Fiction

  Audiobook, Colour and Light, Fiction, Mr Salary, Sally Rooney, Short Stories

• Beautiful World, Where Are You

  “I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”

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  17th Nov 2021

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Beautiful World Where Are You, Fiction, Sally Rooney, socialism

• Normal People

  “You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”

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  12th Jan 2020

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Book of the Month, Booker Prize Longlist, Faber, Fiction, Irish Literature, Normal People, Sally Rooney, women's prize for fiction

• Conversations With Friends

  “You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”

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  4th Oct 2019

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, conversations with friends, Faber, Fiction, Irish Literature, Sally Rooney, Sunday Times, Sunday Times University of Warwick Young Writers Award