Normal people by Sally Rooney I’d watched the series before I read the book and yet the series didn’t put me off reading it. I suffered through it, just as I suffered through this book about Marianne and Connell. Two kids who go to the same school, and then later on to the same university, their lives entwined. We witness their strange dance as they struggle to communicate plainly with each other and fail again and again. Marianne is a broken person. Connell is sort […]
Ten mostly good fiction books
Normal people by Sally Rooney
Conversations with friends by Sally Rooney
The amateur marriage by Anne Tyler
The pull of the stars by Emma Donoghue
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
Holes by Louis Sachar
The princess bride by William Goldman
The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke