hi friends! happy fall proper 🍁
according to my very informal and likely unreliable data, we have all collectively been in reading slumps. is that right? its been so many misses and dnf's this september. there were few little glimmers of light at the end of this very dark slumpy tunnel though and despite it all some good, fun books were read. lets chat about them :)
books mentioned
Foster by Claire Keegan
Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
Tuya by Claudia Pineiro/ All Yours by Claudia Pineiro (translated).
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
ROONEY-VAULT
My silly lil thoughts on Rooney via ig
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Sally Rooney at Soutchbank Center, Intermezzo Release Interview via The Paris Review
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/10/09/loving-the-limitations-of-the-novel-a-conversation-between-sally-rooney-and-merve-emre/
Sally Rooney Tells Us About the Books That Shaped Her, The Cut (thanks for sending this, Nathan!)
www.thecut.com/2019/03/author-sally-rooney-on-the-cut-on-tuesdays-podcast.html
Sally Rooney on Characters Who Arrive Preëntangled and Her Forthcoming Novel, The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/sally-rooney-07-08-24
Sally Rooney Thinks Career Growth Is Overrated, The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/magazine/sally-rooney-interview.html
A Lover's Theory on Marxism, Vulture
www.vulture.com/article/sally-rooney-intermezzo-new-book-romance-novels-marxism-capitalism.html
Ain’t No Party Like a Sally Rooney Book Party! Inside the Buzzy “Premiere” of Intermezzo, Vogue
www.vogue.com/slideshow/sally-rooney-intermezzo-book-premiere-belletrist-emma-roberts-2024
In critique of Rooney (fair points were made 😂)
Sally Rooney's Beautiful Deceptions, The New Yorker Podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/5AtGZounQKBisKkJpd7ihe?si=WeQgT0UhTWuL5qafLm8npg&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A2SPRInxtPCz2nmvKgHLWDt&t=2947
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chapters
0:00 intro
1:13 foster
2:50 age gaps
5:08 female rage
7:09 sisterhood
11:21 DNFs
12:46 raw motherhood
14:12 current reads
15:34 Sally Rooney
17:29 outro
thanks for watching, and see you soon :)
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