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, […]
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 […]
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 […]