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Normal People

Sally Rooney

Start date: November 1, 2023

Finish date: December 1, 2023

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Jul 20, 2022 Larissa rated it really liked it

I’m emotionally conflicted right now. I may update this later but this is what I do far have grasped.

Two co dependent broken people keep having miscommunication & issues. Mental health is talked about. Abuse is talked about and so are some very sensitive sexual topics. I’m not sure how I feel. I felt very sad but the things talked about are all very real things. But I did feel like I needed more from the story maybe.

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Mar 02, 2023 sadie wilson rated it liked it

3.5 / 5

THIS BOOK ENDS ON A FUCKING CLIFF HANGER?!? WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME?? i was honestly a little bored for the duration of the middle, but got hooked again in the end and now i’m just plain mad that it wasn’t the ending i expected. the ending was too good to be over.

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Apr 03, 2024 jasmin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, twenty-twenty-four, favs-24

a nice little story of navigating love through high school and college, with a whole lot of trauma mixed in ❤️‍🩹

“you make me really happy, he says. his hand moves over her hair and he adds: i love you. i’m not just saying that, i really do. even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she’s aware of this now, while it’s happening. she has never believed herself fit to be loved by any person. but now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many ye ...more

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