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esthersweet08's review against another edition
2.0
2'5. No me ha gustado prácticamente nada, me parece bastante plano en general: los personajes, la trama... y además se me ha hecho pesado de leer. No sé, igual no lo he leído en el mejor momento pero ha sido una decepción bastante grande.
sarahetc's review against another edition
4.0
So, I think this is the fourth RR novel I've listened to and I recently read through her short story collection, Scattered Showers. This one confirmed for me that Rowell writes Rowell and she does it well. You know it's going to be a woman and a man and vaguely romantic, with friends and a thoughtfully sketched universe that functions very well. You know you're going to be in Omaha, Nebraska. Rowell writes local color as much as she writes anything and I, for one, love it. Because Omaha. What can I say? Well, I got snowed in there once and the airline put us up on a Riverboat Casino hotel and I lost $20 in 10 seconds playing roulette, lost my short mother in the rows of slot machines, then wandered off to eat a great hamburger with my sister.
Attachments is somewhat different than what I've read before recently, in that the characters are thoroughly adult. This is more Landline than E&P or Fangirl. Beth and Jennifer are friends who work at a newspaper. Lincoln also works at the newspaper, but in IT, not as a writer or copy editor, like the women. Beth and Jennifer's friendship plays out in large part via email-- and this is in 1999, so they use it as a chat system, or proto-Slack. I get that. I did it. I still do it with a few people. Lincoln gets hired to monitor the email for prohibited content and keywords. Beth and Jennifer get flagged, a lot, for talking about babies, and menstruation, and perfectly normal, no big deal stuff that those programs always catch on rather than the things they should catch on. Lincoln, to his own chagrin and shame, becomes deeply involved in their lives. Beth is dissatisfied with her metal musician boyfriend and despairs of ever being married. Jennifer is tortuously ambivalent about starting a family and is troubled that she is so troubled by wanting to become pregnant and it's straining her marriage.
And now you could probably predict the rest of the book. I did. I got quite a few of the details right-- even the ones I hoped didn't happen. And in that way, the book wasn't quite as wonderful as I had hoped. It was comfortable and I do like the Midwestern local color, but it seemed lackluster. And then, shortly after the halfway point, something in Rowell's characterization of Lincoln changed and whammo, the story gained momentum. Maybe it was his open friendship with Doris the coworker or a little bit more information about his off-kilter mother. I'm not sure, but I do know it did get better. The important crises hit, one after the other, as Lincoln becomes the primary point of view, swapping places with the Beth and Jennifer emails. Maybe it is simple chaismus; at any rate, it went from enjoyable to compelling.
I didn't want it to end. I wanted to share it with my daughters, though maybe when they were a little bit older and could keep their thoughts on the Y2K potential disaster to themselves and not talk about "the late 1900s" like I'm their own personal artifact. I want to know what happens next. Where's the sequel to this? Why is she writing her own Fangirl fanfiction when she could be writing other works in this universe, because I want to know more about Jennifer's husband Mitchell. I went to exercise this morning and had to reorient my brain to listen to the last Hawthorne gambit book, not this. Oof.
Four stars because comfortable local color with interesting, realistic characters and a happy ending, although a little bit slow to pick up.
Attachments is somewhat different than what I've read before recently, in that the characters are thoroughly adult. This is more Landline than E&P or Fangirl. Beth and Jennifer are friends who work at a newspaper. Lincoln also works at the newspaper, but in IT, not as a writer or copy editor, like the women. Beth and Jennifer's friendship plays out in large part via email-- and this is in 1999, so they use it as a chat system, or proto-Slack. I get that. I did it. I still do it with a few people. Lincoln gets hired to monitor the email for prohibited content and keywords. Beth and Jennifer get flagged, a lot, for talking about babies, and menstruation, and perfectly normal, no big deal stuff that those programs always catch on rather than the things they should catch on. Lincoln, to his own chagrin and shame, becomes deeply involved in their lives. Beth is dissatisfied with her metal musician boyfriend and despairs of ever being married. Jennifer is tortuously ambivalent about starting a family and is troubled that she is so troubled by wanting to become pregnant and it's straining her marriage.
And now you could probably predict the rest of the book. I did. I got quite a few of the details right-- even the ones I hoped didn't happen. And in that way, the book wasn't quite as wonderful as I had hoped. It was comfortable and I do like the Midwestern local color, but it seemed lackluster. And then, shortly after the halfway point, something in Rowell's characterization of Lincoln changed and whammo, the story gained momentum. Maybe it was his open friendship with Doris the coworker or a little bit more information about his off-kilter mother. I'm not sure, but I do know it did get better. The important crises hit, one after the other, as Lincoln becomes the primary point of view, swapping places with the Beth and Jennifer emails. Maybe it is simple chaismus; at any rate, it went from enjoyable to compelling.
I didn't want it to end. I wanted to share it with my daughters, though maybe when they were a little bit older and could keep their thoughts on the Y2K potential disaster to themselves and not talk about "the late 1900s" like I'm their own personal artifact. I want to know what happens next. Where's the sequel to this? Why is she writing her own Fangirl fanfiction when she could be writing other works in this universe, because I want to know more about Jennifer's husband Mitchell. I went to exercise this morning and had to reorient my brain to listen to the last Hawthorne gambit book, not this. Oof.
Four stars because comfortable local color with interesting, realistic characters and a happy ending, although a little bit slow to pick up.
anie_star's review against another edition
5.0
My first Rainbow Rowell & I'm in love. :)
So both Beth and Jennifer work as journalists for a big company and write emails to each other about their day, life, daily struggles, just friends' stuff. Only it's against company policy. They even have a guy hired to monitor that. Enter Lincoln. Lincoln is a brilliant computer guy who foolishly applied to the job, thinking it will involve cool hacking and building firewalls and now he spends his day snooping in other people's emails and getting paid for it.
And then he comes across emails from Beth and Jennifer. Instead of reporting them, he reads on. And more he reads, more involved he becomes, slowly falling for one of them.
It's a cute story, told in a very interesting way. I enjoyed reading it very, very much, I was smiling throughout the entire book. It's the kind of story that just makes you happy. :)
(By every email there is a date stamp, but I glanced over that every time. So by about half of the book, while I enjoyed it very much, I kept wondering why they don't just send texts to each other, only to realize it's mostly set in 1999. :D)
So both Beth and Jennifer work as journalists for a big company and write emails to each other about their day, life, daily struggles, just friends' stuff. Only it's against company policy. They even have a guy hired to monitor that. Enter Lincoln. Lincoln is a brilliant computer guy who foolishly applied to the job, thinking it will involve cool hacking and building firewalls and now he spends his day snooping in other people's emails and getting paid for it.
And then he comes across emails from Beth and Jennifer. Instead of reporting them, he reads on. And more he reads, more involved he becomes, slowly falling for one of them.
It's a cute story, told in a very interesting way. I enjoyed reading it very, very much, I was smiling throughout the entire book. It's the kind of story that just makes you happy. :)
(By every email there is a date stamp, but I glanced over that every time. So by about half of the book, while I enjoyed it very much, I kept wondering why they don't just send texts to each other, only to realize it's mostly set in 1999. :D)
hmwolf2017's review against another edition
4.0
Good for light bedtime reading. Ending was a cliche disappointment but it fulfilled its purpose of putting me to bed at ease.
emilypriddy's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
edhyndman's review against another edition
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Minor: Miscarriage
what_katie_read_in_ca's review against another edition
4.0
Loved it--perfect read for a long plane ride. Jennifer and Beth's emails were hilarious and realistic. Loved the character development in this one and the resolution for each of the various subplots.
casshow's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Miscarriage