The weakest of the three Rainbow Rowell books I’ve read so far (Eleanor & Park and Fangirl–review coming soon–being the others), Attachments is nonetheless a wonderful story told in an interesting way. “Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.” In case you missed Caitlin-G’s review a few days ago (this is what happens when I borrow all her books–everything I write comes a few days after her submissions), Attachments is about two women who work for a newspaper. […]
MelBivDevoe’s CBR review #13
I discovered Rainbow Rowell’s novels earlier this year, thanks to many recommendations from several friends. Her latest, “Landline,” differs from her most recent novels in that it’s not YA. Of all her novels, this one feels the most grown-up to me; it’s also the most supernatural or science fiction-ish. Georgie McCool is a successful television writer who has two young daughters with her stay-at-home husband Neal. Georgie and Neal have been together since college, but their marriage has become strained as Georgie’s career has taken […]
Fangirl
Can you give a book 6 stars? Fangirl was, by far, one of the best books I’ve read all year. I devoured it in two nights and my only complaint is that is ended already. Can we start an online petition for sequels to all Rainbow Rowell’s books? She always seems to leave me wanting more! Cath’s life has been devoted to Simon Snow (a Harry Potter-esq book character) since her mother left Cath and her twin sister, Wren, when they were 8. Wren has […]
Attachments
“Hi, I’m the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . “ Attachments was a breath of fresh air that I desperately needed while reading Son of a Witch. Rainbow Rowell is fast becoming my literary girlfriend (with John Green being my literary boyfriend, of course) and I can’t wait to start Fangirl. Set in late 1999, Attachments, like Eleanor & Park, is told from the female and male perspective of a prospective romance. However, the female side of this story […]
He kissed her like he was drawing a perfectly straight line. He kissed her in India ink.
I don’t actually have the words to properly summarise the plot for this book, because I have so many feelings about it. Formulating them is going to be difficult enough. So I’m going to take the easy way out, and rely on the blurb: Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply – but that almost seems beside the point now. Maybe that was […]
“Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen—because you love each other.”
This isn’t the first review of Rainbow Rowell’s new novel, Landline, and I know it won’t be the last. People around here seem to dig her writing, and with good reason. She knows how to twist words that get you in the gut and I’ve never read anyone who describes the first flush of love the way this woman does. Normally when I finish a book, I take some time to process it, but with this one I’m just diving in. Landline was waiting in […]