emilyreadstoomuch's Reviews (787)

the ultimate female rage book

so flipping cute

good, not great

changing my review to 3 stars bc i keep thinking ab how the ending was so incongruent to the rest of the story.

3.5 stars. artists are unbelievably insufferable lmfao.

louisa was a caricature of someone from southern louisiana. preston was my favorite character by far which surprised me. his hypocritical anarchism was so entertaining. i loved richard’s character arc. louisa and karina will never see each other again. louisa will marry that boy that goes to ULL and she’ll be an art teacher in breaux bridge just like her mom even though that’s her worst nightmare. karina felt like the flattest character to me. i don’t have much to say about her

i really enjoyed the discussion of the ethics of art, the moral responsibility of an artist, and what the true delineation of art is. i wish i had read this book before that art philosophy class i took my senior year of college.

i don’t even remotely understand how this book is rated so low. this is one of the best books i’ve ever read. the characters were so interesting and the story flowed perfectly.

i need this to be made into a full novel, this was simply not enough. i’m convinced sally rooney is truly a genius. she is a master of beige prose: boring in the best way possible, yet entirely entertaining. reading anything by her is like experiencing real life. she strips her writing of fantastical or romanticized elements. her characters are uncomfortably self aware about the most insignificant things. half the time her writing doesn’t even make sense at first. i’ll probably have to read this four or five more times and annotate it to death before i really and truly understand it. still 5 stars. still a new favorite.

i really wanted to love this but i just couldn’t finish it. i understand why people love it so much though. just wasn’t for me

god just texted me and said he’s making this book the 8th deadly sin

putting a decade of catholic school to good use (being knowledgeable about every reference to catholicism, church rooms, priest paraphernalia, and the bible in this smut book)

BCJSLCJEOCJD IM SQUEALING OMGGG THIS WAS SO GOOD AND SO CUTE AND SO FUNNY

3.5 rounded down. wasn’t a fan of the way it was narrated. kind of felt like i was listening to a tv show but there wasn’t really background music so it was just kind of awkward. the story was pretty cute though. a lot of the jokes fell flat for me