Sip Story: “Beautiful World Where Are You” x Black Tea Lemonade

📧 BEAUTIFUL WORLD WHERE ARE YOU by Sally Rooney 📧

★★★★★

🥤Drink Pairing: Black Tea Lemonade from Starbies! There’s no real reason I chose this other than it was my drink of choice when starting the book 😂

✨ Review: “Beautiful World, Where Are You” is a coming of age story that focuses on mainly making the wrong decisions, feeling lost or stuck in life, female friendship, and the many complexities of emotions and the not-always -so-beautiful world we live in. This book took me quite a while to get through, but I think that is going to be the case with all of Sally Rooney’s books. I’m typically a very fast reader and just fly through books in one or two sittings, but there is something about her writing and her stories that make me take it slow. It’s mostly so I have time to think and appreciate the story section by section, as there are literally so many layers to the characters and their lives. On the surface, it’s simple and ordinary but I truly think you can re-read and re-read her books and each time you will find things you did not notice before, or perhaps as you gain more life experiences you interpret scenes and lines in different ways.

Normal People is probably my favorite book of all time, and that one just touched me so significantly that I don’t know if any of Rooney’s other books will measure up. But, that being said I did really like Beautiful World - the characters were pretty infuriating and I can’t really say I liked a single one of them but then again, that was probably the point! I genuinely have SO many thoughts on this story but it will take me a while to fully process them and decide exactly what I feel 😂

I could understand that this book is probably not for everyone but if you like complex emotions and stream of consciousness writing then definitely give it a try! Up next for me is “Conversations with Friends” 💛