CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS (Sally Rooney) - March 6/20

I feel like I was reading this forever, but nevertheless I kind of liked it. Rooney does a nice job of establishing the various characters, and the central character was especially quite vivid and compelling (especially when she got that uterus thing). But the book is generally pretty long-winded and sporadically pretentious, so I can't say I really loved it at any point. **1/2 out of ****