Normal People
by Sally Rooney · first published 2018
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At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Co
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…see if you like his writing. I've also enjoyed Elmore Leonard quite a bit recently. More pulpy I suppose, but well written. Out of Sight is a good one with a somewhat faithful movie version as well. Normal People by Sally Rooney is something I read recently that I liked. Unless by literature you actually mean classic literature, in which case I'm really not qualified to recommend anything :-)
on “Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?” ↗I would love to know which books you’ve read in 2019 and which you would recommend. Some of my favourite reads were: Fascism: a warning (Albright) Sapiens (Harari) Normal People (Rooney) I will comment with a full list of my recommendations.
on “Ask HN: Books You Read in 2019?” ↗…to the Present,” by David Treuer “How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,” by Jenny Odell “Lost Children Archive,” by Valeria Luiselli “Lot: Stories,” by Bryan Washington “Normal People,” by Sally Rooney “The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson “The Yellow House,” by Sarah M. Broom (National Book Award winner, nonfiction) “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory…
on “Obama lists his favorite books of 2019” ↗…Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli https://www.worldcat.org/title/lost-children-archive/oclc/11... 8. Lot: Stories, by Bryan Washington https://www.worldcat.org/title/lot-stories/oclc/1128099233 9. Normal People, by Sally Rooney https://www.worldcat.org/title/normal-people/oclc/1119769689 10. The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson https://www.worldcat.org/title/orphan-masters-son-a-novel/oc... 11. The Yellow…
on “Obama lists his favorite books of 2019” ↗…you think indicates someone capable of reading and enjoying literary fiction? I think the hypothetical cutoff is somewhere between Level 3 and 4. Based on all of this, let's use Sally Rooney's book "Normal People" as an example. If we're being super charitable, at most 50% of people would be able to read and comprehend that book. If we're being less charitable with our definition of "comprehension," I think we're…
on “The cultural decline of literary fiction” ↗…just feed the coffers of Amazon. I have read two backs in the last two days: Paul Laird's "Birth and Impact of Britpop: Mis-Shapes, Scenesters and Insatiable Ones" in hardback and Sally Rooney's novel "Normal People" in paperback. I'm currently reading a book about female Scottish painters.
on “How to revive your love of books” ↗