Howdy!
Here’s a new book review - I wanna keep doing this reviews in the future more regulary cause I am reading a lot and I have thoughts on what I read lol. Anyways, here I talk about Sally Rooney’s Mr Salary. I compare it to Rooney’s other works Normal People and Conversations with Friends, as well as talk about how Rooney was able to make this short story make you feel you’ve just finished reading a 200-page novel. How the advice to not overexplain in short stories might be not always necessary and how the underlining subplot of Sukie and her father Frank usually gets lost when reading this story.
book description:
“My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.
Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable.
Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.”
this was hosted, recorded and edited by Bonnie Orbison
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