Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna: ReReview
Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna I read this book when it first came out in 2024 and was getting a ton of hype online. It was actually one of the books that I downloaded on my kindle for the Dublin/London trip I went on that fall that ended in me moving to Dublin a few months later. And I've always associated this book with that time, giving a fond tint to the still lingering impression that the book didn't quite live up to the hype. Still, being in a reading slump and having just been in London for horrible heat, I wanted to revisit Oisín McKenna's debut book to commiserate about the heatwave, if nothing else. The book worked so much better for me this time around. Not that I didn't enjoy it before. It was a solid 4 star read. But the distance from the online buzz and also the fact that I live in Dublin and have visited London many times now, especially the Dalston area where many of the book's characters live, it feels much more visceral. In a lot of ways...
