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Call Me by Your Name

André Aciman

Start date: February 1, 2018

Finish date: February 28, 2018

Discussion: Book of the Month Club

Discussion leader: Jordan Lombard

Why we're reading this: It was nominated, seconded, and voted as our choice for February 2018.
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Mar 28, 2009 Ami rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtq-fiction, 4-and-half-stars_rating

4.5 stars
This book made me shivered.

The story is about how a 17-year-old boy building up the romance with a 24-year-old man, a house guest during Summer. The story feels so honest and real. It is basically, one of the most sensuous and passionate books I have ever read in my entire life!! I didn't get this a lot ... even when I read romance novels and all of the sexual intercourse scenes on those books. This one gave me goosebumps!! ...more

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Apr 20, 2023 ⚓Dan⚓ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Beautiful story, beautifully written.

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Aug 12, 2017 Minh rated it really liked it

Suitably tragic as these love stories are, the lush prose made me want to roll around in bed even as I forced myself to drink in every words of each extremely long sentence.

I'm curious to see how how this will play out in the film version, so much of it is Elio and his emotions playing out over the pages, will this translate into a visual model? ...more

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Jan 06, 2023 Minh rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The last few words send a shiver down my spine, such longing and so many years. I'd forgotten how juvenile Elio's yearning was, his teenage thoughts overpowering all sense of sensibility but can't help but get swept into his longing for Oliver's love and attention.

I read this in a frenzy one summer years ago and followed up with the movie, now its all a little shaded by real life scandals and my second time around via audio book even more so knowing its narrator.

But still, it's a summer classic ...more

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Mar 31, 2011 Leah Petersen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, literary, gay

Call Me by Your Name is a contender for one of my favorite books of all time. It's really hard to make me cry from a story. I can name all six movies and three books that have made me literally bawl. This was one of them. The last sentence of the book is the best last sentence I've ever read.

The prose is luscious. The setting is unique, a teen growing up in near-past Italy, and fascinating in its depth and nuance. The characters are very real, their struggles very relatable. And the outcome, so ...more

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