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 […]
You make infidelity sound like a hole in the sidewalk.
Another Cannonball Read Rainbow Rowell Success Story! This is my first Rainbow Rowell novel, and I would not have found her so quickly were she not a huge CBR favorite. And I get it, but also I don’t? She is undeniably a damn delight. But more to point about this specific book, the part of me that’s still mad that “Bridget Jones’ Baby” ended with a fucking wedding is really bummed out that Lincoln (our hero) ends his Attachments journey to emotional health and adult sustainability […]
Don’t mind me, I’ll just sit here and quietly morn the dwindling pile of Rowell books I have left to read.
Set at the dawn of the 21st century, amidst the chaos of Y2K hysteria, Attachments is about a young IT security officer at a newspaper whose job it is to read employee emails that get flagged for personal content. He quickly finds himself drawn to near daily exchanges between two women, and ends up falling for one of them. Torn between his deep interest in a woman he’s never met, and the unethical quandary he’s found himself in, Lincoln has to decide weather to throw […]
Inseparable.
5 ‘HOPELESSLY IN LOVE’ STARS! Goodreads summary: “Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It’s company policy.) But they can’t quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives. Meanwhile, Lincoln O’Neill can’t believe this is his job now- reading other people’s e-mail. When he applied to be “internet security officer,” he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing […]