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May 20, 2019 09:42PM
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Does anyone want to read "Normal People" by Sally Rooney? If so, I was thinking we could add it as our September book. Here is the synopsis copy/pasted from goodreads...
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal.
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.
Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.
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As you mentioned previously, you were interested in a fitness or lifestyle book...I don't know if this book falls into the category of something you may be interested in reading..."The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck, by Mark Manson." The ratings seem pretty good and it's a bestseller on Amazon. So if everyone is interested, maybe we can add it to the schedule!
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As for "The Crawdads Sing," I read the synopsis and I'm not really interested in that book.
