Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

BATB score: 4/10 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️

You either love Sally Rooney or you don’t. I don’t. I admire you that you wrote so many novel pieces at on 31 y/o. Yet, I just wasted my day reading this one of yours.

Best to: the characters had explicitly detailed intercourse for roughly 8 times throughout the book; Sally Rooney is modern day Murakami - equally perverted in writing but respectfully more of female-POV “make love”

Best for: 30+ years old love, lust, and friendship; a very slow supposedly feel-good read

Best as: romantic comedy via a novel medium

Best quote: “Our ways of thinking and speaking about sexuality seem so limited, compared to the exhausting and deliberating power of sexuality itself as we experience it in our real lives.”

“If you were a little bit stupider you might have an easier life.”

“It is hard in these circumstances not to feel that modern living compares poorly with the old ways of life, which have come to represent something more substantial, more connected to the essence of the human condition.“

“am I the one you think about, when we made love were you happy, have I heard you, do you love me, will you always.“

“A way of mutilating my real life as a gesture of submission to an imagined future.”

“to live with someone I really love and respect, who really loves and respects me.”