This is the first Rainbow Rowell book I’ve read, despite owning Carry On. (I’ve been waiting to read that with faintingviolet, and she’s been waiting because it was the last one she hasn’t read, but now that the sequel is coming out…) Lincoln works the late shift working as a technology officer at a newspaper. His job is to be the night-shift IT guy and to monitor the staff emails. He comes across frequent email exchanges between two friends, Jennifer and Beth, emails that […]
Revisiting an Old Favorite
Bingo Square: So Popular While I had only read seven of the ten books from the “So Popular” list, I chose a reread. I knew Divergent as a series had not lived up to the first novel; while I enjoyed Gillian Flynn, I am kind of over that genre (is it still a twist if we expect it?) which meant no Girl on a Train; and even though I know everyone loves The Fault in our Stars, I just have little interest in reading a […]
A man falls in love with a woman he’s never met because he reads her e-mails. Wait don’t go!! No, it’s charming, really I promise!!
You wouldn’t think a story about an adult man creeping on two women’s private email conversation would be cute and charming, but this is a Rainbow Rowell book, so of course it is. “I know that people change. I thought … I thought we’re going to change together. I thought that’s what it meant to be in love.” Lincoln is lost in life. He’s been reeling ever since his girlfriend broke up with him first year in college. He now has several degrees and a […]
Somehow charming instead of creepy
It’s the late 90’s, and office email is still enough of a novelty for the higher ups at a local newspaper not to get it in the slightest. Which is how our shy protagonist, Lincoln, finds himself working in an IT job that basically consists of reading flagged emails (I am a very nosy person and this basically sounds like my dream job). But while Lincoln is supposed to be monitoring and warning those in breach of company policy, he finds himself reluctant to do […]
You’ve Got (E)Mail… I’m secretly reading
I decided to continue exploring Rainbow Rowell’s oeuvre, this time with one of her earlier books, Attachments. One of the unique things about this book includes its narrative structure, which includes traditional third-person perspective interspersed with email correspondence between two additional, central characters. Specifically, the book focuses on Lincoln, a 28-year old IT guy at a newspaper company whose sole job consists of reading email correspondence and flagging them for profanity and company violations. (The story occurs in 1999, a simpler technological time where the threat […]