32. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

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You Might Hate This Book

Hannah Graves and Stephanie Pearson

48 episodes

9 months ago

Hi! We're co-hosts Hannah and Stephanie. We're both avid readers, but we have VERY different tastes. Each week one of us will recommend a book to the other - a book we loved that we think our co-host might hate. We’ll read the recommended book, then come back together to discuss it - and maybe fight about it. Was it as awful as we expected? Did we secretly love it? Did we throw it across the room? Join us each week as we argue about what makes a good book, and broaden our horizons. Maybe you'll find a book you love (or hate).

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32. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

You Might Hate This Book

1 hour 20 seconds

2 years ago

32. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

To wrap up June, Stephanie assigned Hannah a book that she thinks her friend will love, but that she herself hated. Will Hannah like Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney as much as Stephanie hated it, or will this assignment simply be a mutual rant between friends?

Frances and Bobbi, female college students in Dublin, are best friends with a romantic history and a creative connection. As they perform spoken-word poetry throughout the city, they catch the attention of author and photographer, Melissa, and her actor husband, Nick. The four form a close but fraught relationship, much of it centering on an affair between Nick and Frances. Join Stephanie and Hannah this week as they discuss this book whose author has been hailed as the voice of their generation and the importance of cultivating emotional intelligence.

Resources:

A New Kind of Adultery Novel | The New Yorker

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney review – young, gifted and self-destructive | Fiction | The Guardian

Refinery 29 Review

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