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Meg Ryan Rom-Com: I should have bought the Kindle edition (now $1.99!)

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

February 10, 2019 by allisonata Leave a Comment

Picking out a book is like dating before computers: all you’ve got to go on is cover and genre. Let’s say bleak non-fiction is your wheelhouse. Today you’re not feeling it—hundreds of pages about the Holocaust is enough for one week—so you think, hey! time for something new. Look at this handwritten recommendation on the bookstore shelf. Look at that cute paperclip…aww, it’s a workplace romance. Not my type, but maybe I’ve changed! Maybe there’s still feeling left in my pessimistic soul! I breezed through […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: cbr11, email, journalism, Rainbow Rowell, Romance

allisonata's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: cbr11, email, journalism, Rainbow Rowell, Romance ·
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I’ve read this story before, and so have you (but it’s still pretty great)

Normal People by Sally Rooney

January 22, 2019 by Dusty Highway 3 Comments

For years, being a (now recovering) literary fiction snob with a preference for British Commonwealth authors, I’ve followed the Man Booker Prize long- and shortlists as a way to find new books, and since I still need a regular fix of literary fiction even as I explore new genres, I’ve started to look to other prizes to expand my library. With Sally Rooney’s Normal People appearing on the Booker longlist and winning the Costa Novel Award, it was an obvious choice, especially as I continue […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr11, Costa Novel Award, Fiction, irish literature, Man Booker longlist, Normal People, Rainbow Rowell, Sally Rooney, young love

Dusty Highway's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr11, Costa Novel Award, Fiction, irish literature, Man Booker longlist, Normal People, Rainbow Rowell, Sally Rooney, young love ·
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Rainbow Rowell is my happy place

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

January 8, 2019 by lowercasesee Leave a Comment

Rainbow Rowell books are the written equivalent of a weighted blanket and cup of tea. The moment I open one, I feel immediately comfortable and content. There is something inherently warm about her writing so much so that even when the characters are in tough situations, I’m just happy to be there. Carry On, well, carries on this grand tradition and I am just tickled pink that she wrote it. I’ll probably reread Fangirl this year because it was my first and always favorite of her books […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Rainbow Rowell

lowercasesee's CBR11 Review No:6 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Rainbow Rowell ·
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Eleanor and Park Redux #CBRBingo

November 29, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

So I have to write eleven reviews in less than two days if I’m going to make the CBR Bingo deadline, so this and the next ten reviews will probably be short. This was my second time through Eleanor & Park, and I picked it up because I had already read all the books in the So Popular! bingo category, and had recently re-read Attachments, so this book, why not! It’s still great, first of all, but also, it’s still my least favorite Rainbow Rowell […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr10bingo, Eleanor & Park, narfna, Rainbow Rowell, re-read, Young Adult

narfna's CBR10 Review No:142 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: cbr10bingo, Eleanor & Park, narfna, Rainbow Rowell, re-read, Young Adult ·
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#CBR10Bingo: So Popular! – Revisiting a favourite (Bingo #9 and #10)

November 28, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR10Bingo: So Popular! This is my second re-read of Attachments. I first read it back in 2011, and my original review can be found here. Considering how much I loved the book back then (and still do), it’s a fairly short and unenthusiastic review. But it’ll give you the basics of what the book is about. When it came to selecting a book for the “So popular!” square, all ten choices (among the most reviewed books of the ten years on the Cannonball blog) were ones I’d already read […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, contemporary fiction, friendship, Rainbow Rowell, reread, romantic, So Popular!

Malin's CBR10 Review No:103 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, contemporary fiction, friendship, Rainbow Rowell, reread, romantic, So Popular! ·
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Cannonball! And Blackout Bingo!

November 28, 2018 by crystalclear 7 Comments

This is the first Rainbow Rowell book I’ve read, despite owning Carry On.  (I’ve been waiting to read that with faintingviolet, and she’s been waiting because it was the last one she hasn’t read, but now that the sequel is coming out…)   Lincoln works the late shift working as a technology officer at a newspaper.  His job is to be the night-shift IT guy and to monitor the staff emails. He comes across frequent email exchanges between two friends, Jennifer and Beth, emails that […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, a bit of light stalking, Attachments, cbr10bingo, office, Rainbow Rowell, romance, Y2K

crystalclear's CBR10 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, a bit of light stalking, Attachments, cbr10bingo, office, Rainbow Rowell, romance, Y2K ·
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