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 […]