Laura Hartley

This list of books read by Connell and Marianne in Normal People puts them into context in the story and summarises them so you can see if you want to read them too! Thanks to a push from Marianne, Connell also attains a place there and elects to study English literature, instead of law at Galway as he had originally planned (read this post if you want to know how I went from being a French literature student to a law student!). And I’m not actually familiar with the rest of Salter’s work, I’ve read some of his short stories, and I’ve read this one book, and I’m sort of working my way through the rest of his work and his novels and stories, but A Sport and a Pastime is, I guess it’s an erotic novel. If you liked this post, you’ll also love: 11 Books to Read if You Loved Normal People 17 Best Quotes from Normal People Best Bookshops in Dublin

After reading this The Rosie Project review you’ll know exactly why everyone raves about this wonderful story by Graeme Simsion. The Rosie Project ever since it was published so I couldn’t wait to get my claws into this on my holiday away. Rosie, too, is a character that you start to root for, and I really admired her for treating Don like an adult, like any other man, and didn’t change, adapt or explain anything to him, preferring to leave him to develop himself. There are lots of characters in The Rosie Project that have ‘clashing’ personalities, and yet somehow Graeme Simsion manages to mash them all together giving each individual character a different role in the novel.

The pair meet a few times outside of the school environment as Connell’s mother is Marianne’s family cleaner. Thanks to Marianne’s encouragement, Connell applies to study English at Trinity College Dublin, where they both end up studying. 11 Books Like Normal People by Sally Rooney Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it. If you liked this post, you might also like: 11 Books Like Normal People 45 Best Quotes About Reading Rory Gilmore Reading List

If you’re looking to up your bookstagram game, this list of bookstagram props might help inspire you and give you some bookstagram ideas! And once you get into bookstagram and creating book flatlays and book photos, you’ll start to see how lots of everyday items could become bookstagram props. That said, I know I, and many other bookstagrammers, get really into prop buying once you’re established on bookstagram and love collecting random but beautiful items to incorporate into book flatlays This list of bookstagram props contains everything from bits you’ll find around the house to items you can buy specifically for bookstagram.