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Young adult? I don't think so. New adult, maybe, but these "kids" are pushing 30, I think and I'm not sure what "new adult" actually means, but I'm seeing it everywhere, so I figured I would throw it in, to prove I can hang with the cool kids.
It looks like this was originally published in 2011, but now perhaps it's being reissued to capitalize on Rowell's Eleanor and Park and Fangirl success. It's maybe one-third epistolary novel (the e-mails between two female friends and co-wo ...more
Young adult? I don't think so. New adult, maybe, but these "kids" are pushing 30, I think and I'm not sure what "new adult" actually means, but I'm seeing it everywhere, so I figured I would throw it in, to prove I can hang with the cool kids.
It looks like this was originally published in 2011, but now perhaps it's being reissued to capitalize on Rowell's Eleanor and Park and Fangirl success. It's maybe one-third epistolary novel (the e-mails between two female friends and co-wo ...more
I didn't love Landline, the last Rowell book I read so wasn't sure what to expect going in. But I found this immensely readable and enjoyable. The book is divided into two types of chapters, those that are email exchanges between two women who work at a newspaper on the cusp of 2000. The women are supportive and caring of each other, but also funny and challenging each other too. Anyone who has had a BFF at work will immediately get pulled into their exchanges. The other chapters are told from L
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2.5
Dec 28, 2014
Jocelyn
marked it as to-read
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Gina
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