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    Here is a Mad Lib for the second wave of Sally Rooney discourse.

    Jessie Gaynor

    January 12, 2021, 12:27pm

    Did you hear that a new Sally Rooney novel will be published in September? Personally, I am [HYPERBOLIC ADJECTIVE]. I [FEELINGS VERB] Sally Rooney’s novels because they’re easy and enjoyable to read. She writes in the tradition of [THIN, WHITE WOMAN WRITER], which I think is [VALUE ADJECTIVE].

    As an aficionado of literary fiction, I can tell you, without hesitation, that Rooney’s books, with their focus on romantic relationships, are exactly like those of [WRITER], whose books, as we all know, have long been considered [LITERARY GENRE].

    I thought Conversations with Friends was [COMPARATIVE VALUE ADJECTIVE] than Normal People because of my feelings about Marxism.

    Of course, Sally Rooney is very popular, which as a lover of books I think is a(n) [ADJECTIVE] thing. And as a writer myself, the success of another writer makes me feel [STRONG EMOTION].

    All in all, I think Sally Rooney is the [NOUN] of a generation, and no matter what anyone feels about her books, there’s no denying that they’re the perfect thing to photograph with a [KIND OF VASE].

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