Beautiful World, Where Are You: Book Summary & Analysis

Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. [URL not allowed] My limited and rarely tested abilities to write a five star review, ever decaying and decreasing from lack of use. We meet again. I will continue to make my own lack of skill the audience for this review, just for a......more

Let me start this review by saying that I think Sally Rooney is an excellent writer on the sentence level. Every word moves the plot forward or illustrates a meaningful detail about her characters. Her dialogue in particular is extraordinary. Even though I had mixed feelings about Conversations w......more

I don't know what it is. All of you scratching your heads about the success of this book and Normal People... I get it. I was actually somewhat irritated by Beautiful World, Where Are You. The characters were annoying, often outright obnoxious, deeply pretentious in their philosophical musings... kin......more

A mature departure from her previous work, BWWAY is exactly the novel we need right now from one of the world's most promising and impressive authors. Rooney's characteristic style glimmers amongst fascinating conversations (sans quotation marks) about climate anxiety, class-consciousness, and langu......more

reviewed this in a twitter thread so i'm transplanting that here the tea? i think it’s good. i think sally has managed to ‘mature’ her writing very successfully. also, sally has jokes! a good alternative title would be Sally Rooney’s Surprisingly Down to Earth and Very Funny. fucking hell is it bloate......more