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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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Jan 16, 2014 Deanna rated it really liked it

Shelves: grabs-my-heart, m-m, made-me-think, why-did-i-wait-so-long-to-read-this, made-me-cry, have-not-recovered-yet

The first thought that struck me as I started this book was "What beautiful use of language." That thought remained with me throughout the book.

To me those hours spent at that round wooden table in our garden with the large umbrella imperfectly shading my papers, the clinking of our iced lemonades, the sound of the not-too-distant surf gently lapping the giant rocks below, and in the background, from some neighboring house, the muffled crackle of the hit parade medley on perpetual replay - all ...more

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Feb 24, 2018 Jordan Lombard rated it it was ok

Shelves: a-own, a-own-ebook, bom-jl-group, g-general-fiction, mc-bisexual, y-2018read, mc-gay

I think this would have made an excellent short story, and I would have enjoyed it a lot more. It’s a beautiful story, but reading the inner monologue of a teenage boy in confused love with a young man for the first time for an entire novel gets a little tiring. Also, the ending was terrible.

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Feb 10, 2018 ΛNNΞ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite-books-of-2018

Unique. Heartbreaking. Beautiful. This felt like a summer vacation in southern Italy -- lush and lovely -- I enjoyed the deeply emotional prose and the cinematic setting. The sentences did run on a little and I'd find my mind wandering as some fairly intellectual concepts were threaded together. In the end, I did like this book a lot -- breathtakingly beautiful, powerful ... groundbreakingly good! ...more

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