“You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten–in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems.” (201) Georgie McCool is in her mid-thirties, married […]
No Vampires or Dystopian Futures . . . just Characters You Care About
This is another solid YA novel by Rainbow Rowell. There are no vampires here or dystopian futures but there is a young woman named Cath, who is struggling to find her way. Cath is a huge fan of Simon Snow, a Harry Potter-esque hero featured in seven books (soon to be eight) that Cath and her twin sister Wren devoured from the time they were little. The series has helped them both deal with the realities of their life—that their mother has abandoned them […]
Surely at some point Rainbow Rowell will write a book I won’t love. Right?
Ugh, trying to write about each successive Rainbow Rowell novel gets more and more difficult. How many different ways are there to say THIS WAS SO GOOD. HER WORDS ARE SO GOOD. HER CHARACTERS SO GOOD. EVERYTHING GOOD. RELATE SO MUCH. HELP. That’s pretty much all I feel like saying, because even over a month later, my feelings about this book are so jumbly wumbly it’s hard to get them to sit still long enough to make them cohesive enough to write about. Granted, having […]
She didn’t care about wizards, but she thought Alan Rickman was dreamy.
This has never happened to me before. Never have I finished a book and wanted to read it again, RIGHT AWAY. But it happened to me last night when I read the last page of Landline. I picked it up yesterday morning, after waiting forever on the library list, and drove to the Toyota dealership to get my car fixed. And I started reading. And I didn’t even notice that I was stuck in that disgusting waiting room for two hours, because Rainbow was with me, […]