Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber & Faber: 2021, 9780571365425) Once or twice before I have been foolish enough to confess that I think something about a book is objectively weak. Here I concede: this is a competent novel but personally I just don’t connect with the characters very much. Rooney’s women have [...]
Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This (Bloomsbury Circus: 2021, 9781526629760) So. This is awkward. Not my favourite book. Most people seem to either like the book or show deference to its (alleged) formal experimentation, so this rant review is but a drop in the ocean and meant light-heartedly. In No One is Talking [...]
Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl (Bloomsbury Publishing: 2021, 9781526630377) I see the term “genre-bending” knocked about haphazardly pretty often, but I think it is a fitting way to describe The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris. It’s not quite a thriller, because for most of the book we get social commentary and [...]
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