None of This is Serious
Ratings3
Average rating3.7
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Ratings3
Average rating3.7
'Extraordinary' Naoise Dolan 'Seriously good' Louise Nealon Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They’ve got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. Then, at a party, what was already unstable completely falls apart and Sophie finds herself obsessively scrolling social media, waiting for something (anything) to happen. None of This Is Serious is about the uncertainty and absurdity of being alive today. It’s about balancing the real world with the online, and the vulnerabilities in yourself, your relationships, your body. At its heart, this is a novel about the friendships strong enough to withstand anything.
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This book had way too much going on. A covid response in the form of a huge crack in the sky, mental health issues, disordered eating and body image issues, family strife, a nasty sibling, sexual abuse, friends moving away, abortion, dating, unemployment, comments on the state of the housing market, feminism, misogyny, being chronically online... the list goes on. I feel like none of it was fully explored and despite there being so many topics and themes the book draggggggeed. It took my way longer to read than it should have done.
The characters are supposed to be the same age as myself and yet none of them seemed the speak in the way young 20-somethings do. Wtf does “read the internet” mean?? That's like saying “read the library”!!!! Infuriating
