100 Books in 2018

18/ call me by your name by andré aciman

read: 01.03.18 - 03.03.18

book: Call Me By Your Name

author: André Aciman

blurb: Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

review: I don't think I'll ever get over this love story. No matter how many times I watch the film, read the book, tell myself it's all just fiction. It hit me in a place that I didn't know existed, and will continue to haunt me for weeks if not years.

There is an inevitability with this book that there has to be some end to this intense love story that you see unfold and yet I kept kidding myself (even after watching the film and knowing how it ends) that Elio and Oliver would continue living in paradise, or heaven, for eternity. I wanted to continue watching them fall in love forever.

It conjured up feeling inside me that a book has never done before. Feelings in my gut that hurt. I felt Elio's pain and his happiness. The writing was so beautiful, and I found myself reading it as easy as watching a film in front of me. For those pages I was transported into a world I never wanted to leave.

I wanted to wrap myself in these pages, smother myself with these words, and live in a summer with no end.

rating: 10/10