Sally Rooney

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.

Mr Salary

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My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all. 

We were predictable to each other, like two halves of the same brain.

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

High Fidelity

Faber Stories

sina (she/her) 

aleksandra

4/5

So, where’s the full length novel? It was your typical Sally Rooney story with no quotation marks, not much of a plot just vibes, but I definitely need more. 


  
    "We were predictable to each other, like two halves of the same brain."

"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

Jasmine Ghartey

A quick read that you can dive into on your daily morning commute or in the 30 minutes between your doom-scrolling and when sleep finally hits you. I think that Rooney’s ability to force us to confront the nature of our humanness—messy and unregulated yet so hopeful and idealistic—is what enraptures us all.

I LIKED IT A LOT OMG. Idk it just felt very real in some way and poignant and weirdly relatable for some people, i just think that there are people who are interested in love stories like this… or to be in one.

anumitaa

as usual another sally rooney book that i loved 😁 like why was it so short but had me hooked!!! i wish she made it into a full novel tho, i need more time to dissect nathan and sukie’s relationship 
by the time i could form some kind of opinion the book was over 😭

It's like you've been starving for 14 days and finally got your hands on some bussin' cheeseburger only for it to be taken away by an unknown force of nature and now your hunger would never be satisfied, you'll always wonder how that remaining piece of cheeseburger taste like. Now you're not just starving, but also sad, and miserable. This is what this book made me feel. It is my first Sally Rooney book, definitely looking forward for more.

skim haunts

syadrina

Hannah Yang

i had been anticipating reading normal people and conversations with friends eventually, but after reading this short story i'm unsure if i'll ~vibe~ with sally rooney.

i admittedly found her writing compelling enough to want to finish the story. it has a distinctive quality that feels simultaneously raw and unabashed but also painfully self-aware of its own 'hip' and 'cool'-ness (is the reader supposed to feel cool for reading and resonating with these characters?). i found the topics of the grotesque of the everyday / 'forbidden' attractions / conflicting feelings about loss interesting, though i dislike the idea that this incest-y, age-gappy situation was "the brink of the inevitable" (but then, maybe i am supposed to be questioning my societally-ingrained distaste for this relationship; what's wrong with two consenting adults?).

i guess my point is that i can see the rooney appeal, but the story left me feeling mildly bewildered and uncomfortable. like a candy that tastes sweet at first but leaves a weird aftertaste.

Ivy 

Joana da Silva

I think it's fair enough to say I'm a Sally Rooney groupie by now. If she wrote the classifieds, I'd read it everyday. This woman's talent goes beyond everything I've ever seen. That being said, I loved this short story, and was heartbroken when it ended.

tina

Abigail Joyann

4 stars
“We were predictable to each other,
like two halves of the same brain.”

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME MORE
I want more of this story and these flawed characters.

(this short story had me more invested and hooked than her full length novel normal people)

Phee

i need a whole book about this story and these characters and i need it NOW

macy

can i have a full novel about them pls
i love me an age gap book❤️‍🩹

jupiter

“When will we know if this was a
bad idea or not? Should we already
know? Because now it feels good.”

so tru queen

3.5 pleasantly surprised by how much i liked this

Sofija Ivetić

Honestly, I like this idea, and it could be a really good novel, but it's nothing special, I mean it's like 30 pages, but I somehow still managed to connect to the main character. But the book can literally be described in two words: daddy issues

brendan sudol

Sophie

Rita Fernandes

“It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance.”
I swear that sometimes Sally Rooney slaps me harder than my psychologist.

Elizabeth Denny

Once again another hit by the Roonster. For a 30 page book I am desperate for some more! 

Jenna

I want this to be expanded into a whole book, but it works so well as a story! I loved it - quintessential Rooney storytelling.

Silvia Morgantini

"Sally Rooney write something that sucks" challenge.
I needed this to be 200 pages longer.

Mr Salary

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