Bloggin 'Bout Books Blog

Hello Lovelies!! One of my all-time favorite authors is my WCW today! Her books have changed my life for the better. Rainbow Rowell writes books for both adults and young adults. Her first published novel was Attachments in 2011. Probably her two biggest novels came out in 2013: Eleanor & Park and Fangirl. Both books have devoted followings. Landline was released last year, and Carry On will be released this fall. In the mean time, fans (including me!) are anxiously awaiting news about the Eleanor & Park film which has been optioned and for which Rowell has drafted a screenplay.  You can find Rainbow on Twitter , Tumblr , Facebook or at her website . She's hilarious and delightful.

I've been trying to think of a way to describe my feelings for Rainbow Rowell's Landline for literally hours. And I just...can't. Every thing I write seems insufficient to explain my feelings for the book. So I'm going to try something a bit different for this review. This is gonna get a little personal. Dear Rainbow Rowell, It's been a year. One year, more or less exactly, since I read Eleanor & Park -- the first book of yours that I read. I had recently been let go from a job which I didn't adore, but I'd been hoping to work at for at least two years, and I was working an extremely part-time minimum wage job. Eleanor & Park made me like life again. It was five months until I read another one of your books. I had found a full time job which I adored, but it was Christmas / New Year's time, and I was spending it all away from my family for the first time in my life. I'd received a copy of Fangirl for Christmas (which I was ecstatic ab...