#BookReview: Find Me - Andre Aciman

Rating:

3.75/5 Book Emojis

Format Used: 

Paperback

Publisher - Penguin India 

Pages - 260

*Note: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher Penguin India, for an honest review. The views below are unbiased and solely my own.

>>>Review for 'Call Me By Your Name'- HERE<<<

Review:

"It's those we lost or who never knew we existed who leave their mark. The others barely echo”

Find Me, my highly anticipated sequel release to Call Me By Your Name, is a novel set the years post young Elio's departure for university to be a pianist. It is written in four parts that span over the lives of Elio's father and his relationships, Elio and his life after Oliver and Oliver's life after he leaves Italy. 

The book is culturally rich and satiates the reader's thirst for the warmth of the Italian summer that left us swooning in Call Me By Your Name. The references in each part of the story are highly reflective of how magnificent Andre Aciman's grit is. His heart is open and so are the characters in this story, unafraid to be vulnerable and seen. Greek mythology, music, architecture, folk tales, Italian and sensuality: Find Me serves it all in these 260 pages.

To see the three of our favourite men from Call Me By Your Name but with different characters could've gone horribly wrong but Aciman never disappoints. However, the reason why I think this book doesn't reach the 5 star rating despite being like a great read is that it adds more closure to a healed wound. The stories in this book were loose and off-ended but were executed brilliantly. By the third part, it seemed like our characters were getting shallower in their depth rather than building up efficiently for a sequel. 


Conclusion: I really enjoyed the stunning monologues and descriptions of this magical story come back in a sequel and I actually think that people who miss the characters as profoundly as I found myself doing, please pick up a copy and enjoy the journey through Italy.

#BookReview: Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman

Rating:

5/5 Book Emojis

Format Used: 

Paperback

Publisher - Penguin India 

Pages - 248

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*Note: I received a review copy of this book from the publisher Penguin India, for an honest review. The views below are unbiased and solely my own.

Review:

"If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.”

 Call Me By Your Name, officially my most favourite book of all time, is a novel about coming-of-age, first love, heartbreak, and a lot more. The book is set sometime in the 80s in Italy and Aciman does a great job in painting a poetic picture in the reader's head. Elio, a seventeen year old, the son of a professor, has another man like every year, stay at his house as an apprentice/student. But perhaps, Oliver is not just any other man after all. There's tension, chemistry yet a longing due to societal perception of morality. What follows when they both come to terms with their feelings is sheer art and magic woven together in these 248 pages of perfection.

I consider myself purely humbled by the strength of each and every sentence that Aciman let escape the depths of his wonderful mind and placed in this book. After finishing it, I instantly found myself wishing that this never ended. This book was an experience that I want to live every second of every day. For the time that I was reading it, the world was a better place somehow and now that I'm done reading it, I slightly feel that this can absolutely be the only book I ever want to read again for the rest of my life. 

To explain the transitions in my emotions while I was reading this book- I was sobbing in the first 13 pages, tense by 30%, sexually tense by 50%, empty by 70% and sobbing again by 100%. I got a little snippet of the book tattooed on my right forearm just after I watched the movie for the first time, and if that doesn't show the amount of love and dedication I have for the book, I don't know what does. 

The little references, the metaphors, the objects, the symbolism, the monologues, the choice of words, the imagery and the closure that it gives you: all like a blessing. It wouldn't be an exaggeration if I say that this book is the second most precious book given to mankind after the Holy Bible itself.

Conclusion: Can't and won't say more than just ask you to pick up a copy, read it and hold it dearly because your life will never be the same again.

REVIEW FOR FIND ME (Sequel) HERE