I wanted to kick myself in the gut after I read this book. An eye-opener if you will.
It was quite a dose of a romantic fantasy and reality at the same time, especially the middle part. Beth's incidents reminded me of my freshman college days :D
If you've seen the movie "You've Got Mail", this is nothing like that. The only similarities they have is the use of the e-mail and that the guy and girl somewhat met in that avenue. Somewhat. But this is not just a love story of sorts. There is a romantic theme in the air, but more than that it is coming into your own terms as you live.
It was the dawn of a new age and people were hoping for a splash of colorful changes in their lives. This is what Lincoln was hoping for after he moved back in with his mother, got a new job as the IT technician at their local newspaper, and finished school after XXX number of years. He was never really able to figure out why he liked school so much until it became clear to him that it was because he was stuck in his comfort zone. He was stuck there in every way that he could not live his life through the way he wanted it, and was never really able to get over his break-up with his high school sweetheart. After all, how do you really get on with your life after breaking up with the only person whom you really loved unconditionally, right? Well in his case, he started to fall in love again. Not with a rebound, but with a girl at work. She met him after he felt he was already in love with her.
The thing about this book, it has this format that if it were turned into a movie, you would not know how the screenwriters would make up showing the other main characters on-screen. If they do get to do it, it would be interesting to see it play. But then again this is not a movie, this is a book. And a good one for those wanting to realize what life has else to offer them that they are missing.
Honestly this was the part that got me beat up that I almost had a panic attack. I had a pseudo- mini panic attack.I began to think that what if I'm making all the wrong choices at the wrong time. The what ifs just came pouring into my head that I just felt like drowning. Then I got to the part where this character Doris says "No sense staying someplace after you realize you don't want to be there." I realize this is not the gist of the book, or perhaps it is, but it was the most memorable line to me. I guess in this light you could say that the book was a coming of age-- sort of, in a social way-- story. Well, it is one if you're socially awkward at twenty-eight. :p
Now as for the lovely romantic end of it, I would say I ended up like a disgruntled movie-goer. The romantic end lacked more elaborate connection towards the end. Sure their emotions finally surfaced. But the way it was presented felt a bit rushed. More so on the way it ended. I don't mean to end on a sour note but I just felt that the ending could have used a bit more fine tuning if you asked me. I just felt like the characters were misplaced at that point just to make them fit the ending dreamed of. "I'm on deadline." I could almost hear the author, no offense meant.
Truly though, if you want a bad kick in the ass or a wake-up call to your life, then read this book. If you have a crummy job or you just can't figure out what to do next, read this book. If you know what your goal is and what your next step should be but are just too afraid to say it or do it out loud, then read this book, please. I am begging you. You are doing yourself a favor. :)
Shout out!
To the author Rainbow Rowell, this was truly endearing though I wished it had more in the end. :) Still, doesn't change the fact that I learned from your words. :)
Dani
May 7, 2013- 10:51 PM
"Seek what the heart craves,
what dreams reveal.
Find what matters,
face what lingers,
embrace what fuels the soul"
-Hallmark bookmark :)
It was quite a dose of a romantic fantasy and reality at the same time, especially the middle part. Beth's incidents reminded me of my freshman college days :D
If you've seen the movie "You've Got Mail", this is nothing like that. The only similarities they have is the use of the e-mail and that the guy and girl somewhat met in that avenue. Somewhat. But this is not just a love story of sorts. There is a romantic theme in the air, but more than that it is coming into your own terms as you live.
It was the dawn of a new age and people were hoping for a splash of colorful changes in their lives. This is what Lincoln was hoping for after he moved back in with his mother, got a new job as the IT technician at their local newspaper, and finished school after XXX number of years. He was never really able to figure out why he liked school so much until it became clear to him that it was because he was stuck in his comfort zone. He was stuck there in every way that he could not live his life through the way he wanted it, and was never really able to get over his break-up with his high school sweetheart. After all, how do you really get on with your life after breaking up with the only person whom you really loved unconditionally, right? Well in his case, he started to fall in love again. Not with a rebound, but with a girl at work. She met him after he felt he was already in love with her.
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The thing about this book, it has this format that if it were turned into a movie, you would not know how the screenwriters would make up showing the other main characters on-screen. If they do get to do it, it would be interesting to see it play. But then again this is not a movie, this is a book. And a good one for those wanting to realize what life has else to offer them that they are missing.
Honestly this was the part that got me beat up that I almost had a panic attack. I had a pseudo- mini panic attack.I began to think that what if I'm making all the wrong choices at the wrong time. The what ifs just came pouring into my head that I just felt like drowning. Then I got to the part where this character Doris says "No sense staying someplace after you realize you don't want to be there." I realize this is not the gist of the book, or perhaps it is, but it was the most memorable line to me. I guess in this light you could say that the book was a coming of age-- sort of, in a social way-- story. Well, it is one if you're socially awkward at twenty-eight. :p
Now as for the lovely romantic end of it, I would say I ended up like a disgruntled movie-goer. The romantic end lacked more elaborate connection towards the end. Sure their emotions finally surfaced. But the way it was presented felt a bit rushed. More so on the way it ended. I don't mean to end on a sour note but I just felt that the ending could have used a bit more fine tuning if you asked me. I just felt like the characters were misplaced at that point just to make them fit the ending dreamed of. "I'm on deadline." I could almost hear the author, no offense meant.
Truly though, if you want a bad kick in the ass or a wake-up call to your life, then read this book. If you have a crummy job or you just can't figure out what to do next, read this book. If you know what your goal is and what your next step should be but are just too afraid to say it or do it out loud, then read this book, please. I am begging you. You are doing yourself a favor. :)
Shout out!
To the author Rainbow Rowell, this was truly endearing though I wished it had more in the end. :) Still, doesn't change the fact that I learned from your words. :)
Dani
May 7, 2013- 10:51 PM
"Seek what the heart craves,
what dreams reveal.
Find what matters,
face what lingers,
embrace what fuels the soul"
-Hallmark bookmark :)
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