While I'm trying to climb out of a bit of a reading slump Laura's cultural credentials are bang up-to-date as she's read the latest Sally Rooney novel, but what did she think of it?
Books mentioned
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin
Transcript
Kate: [00:00:00] It feels like summer here in London and Sally Rooney is in the air. It's time for another book Club Review Weekend.
Despite loving my beautiful US edition of Sally Rooney's latest novel Intermezzo, I've also noticed in myself a significant reluctance to actually pick it up and start reading. Partly it's my aversion to hype, a characteristic I think I share with Rooney herself who was notably absent in most of the publicity whirl around the launch of this book.
The trouble with hype is that it can lead to a set of expectations, and in my experience, these never serve us well when it comes to reading The actual text far better in my opinion, is to wait. Although sometimes I can take this to extremes. I …
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