Tag: Irish
Review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Irish, perhaps due to a history of civil divide and holding onto staunch personal beliefs of what is right or wrong for the people of the Emerald Isle, are immensely good at producing guttural stories that are infused with a charming charisma and bitter edge. Today’s example is Small Things Like These, a rather…
Review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
Over the last year or so, I have actively been trying to read new authors and pick up a few best-seller books that seem to be universally recommended. Sally Rooney’s Normal People was one such novel that everyone—and I mean everyone—seemed to rank at the top of the must-read lists. Naturally, I was sceptical about…
Review: Mr Salary by Sally Rooney
A very short but impactful read, and my first experience with Sally Rooney’s writing that has left me interested in cracking open my untouched copy of Normal People. Across its short span of less than fifty pages, Mr Salary details the complex and sexually tense relationship between twenty-four-year-old Sukie and her significantly older—as well as…
