I ordered Landline by Rainbow Rowell and it arrived today and I read the first few pages even though I shouldn’t have and already began to feel myself coming undone and I think I’ve realised why she makes me react the way I do. It’s because when I read her writing, I picture myself writing books like that. With all the soft gentle fragility of people and relationships and little threads of loving people and how they turn into big wonderful moments and it drives me completely insane that I could write a book like that and I’m not. I’m just sitting here thinking about writing a book like that and I’m reading her and I’m unraveling and I wanna do that. I want someone to pick up one of my novels and know they’re going to be wrecked by the end.
Published on November 07, 2014 07:44