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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!!

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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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 job he took to pay his bills while he figured it all out. His job […]

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9/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:32 |

Somehow charming instead of creepy

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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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 the warning part when it comes to Beth and Jennifer – two friends who spend […]

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7/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

You’ve Got (E)Mail… I’m secretly reading

Attachments: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

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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 of Y2K loomed realistically). Lincoln is a bit of a sad sap; he hasn’t dated […]

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2/25/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:2 |

Merry October or I revisit a favorite

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Merry October everyone. (Shhh… I know its November, but it’s still October in my heart.) I love Rainbow Rowell, and I love the characters she creates. I also love how much she loves my favorite month of the year. This is my second time through Attachments and while looking back I can see all the ways in which Rowell has grown as an author but my affection for this story has only grown. I rated this one 4 stars when I last read it for CBR5, but I’ve gone ahead and rated it five stars this time. The first time […]

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11/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:62 |

“Do you believe in love at first sight?”…”I don’t know,” he said. “Do you believe in love before that?”

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Apparently, I’m in the middle of a massive re-reading binge. I didn’t even realize it, but most of the books on the list of “reviews I need to catch up on” are for books that I’ve not only read before, but have also reviewed before. Attachments is one of those books — first reviewed in CBR5, it was a book I loved so much, I was afraid to reread it. What if I didn’t love it as much as I did last time? Wouldn’t that sort of ruin it for me? Never fear! Not only did I still love it, […]

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10/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:56 |

I Like This Book so Much it Made Me Angry

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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I like this book so much I am actually angry with myself. I’m angry that I didn’t read it years ago. I’m angry that I read it now. I’m angry that Malin is probably going to pass me on the Leaderboard because I liked Attachments so much I’m not going to be able to read other books for a while. I have three other reviews half written and I don’t know if I’m going to be able to finish them because none of them are this book, and that makes me mad. I’m angry because the main characters are creepy […]

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7/27/2017 's CBR9 Review No:77 |

Once you name it, you start getting attached to it!

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I’ll admit, I was late to the party – everyone was already gushing wildly about Rainbow Rowell, especially the YA love story Eleanor & Park, by the time I finally picked up one of her books.  There’s just something about THAT much effusive praise that makes me wary.  But then I read the blurb for Fan Girl, and I just couldn’t deny my interest anymore.  Of course, just as so many have fallen before me, once I read one of her books, I immediately had to buy them all, while cursing my contrarian nature for depriving me of the Rowell […]

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6/18/2017 's CBR9 Review No:4 |

I Wasn’t As Attached As I Wanted to be…but as I wrote the review, I found that I was

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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  I’ve realized that I’m an odd sort of Rainbow Rowell fan.  I liked Eleanor and Park ok-enough. I think I liked the idea of it more than the execution of it.  I embraced the nostalgia of the time and of first love but it’s not really a book that I’ll revisit…nor do I ever recommend it to my friends (that’s telling to me).  I know that this is blasphemy in these parts and I apologize.  But I liked Eleanor and Park enough to read Landline…and you know what? I LOVED Landline (which I think is also blasphemy around here, but […]

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4/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:18 |


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