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lydiaewinters's review against another edition
4.0
This was a very nice book, but I can’t say I enjoyed it enough for 5 stars. Me, not the book.
guillevaldata's review
5.0
Agarre este libro con miedo, porque no soy la fan #1 de Rainbow Rowell. Los libros anteriores que leí de ella no me llenaron. Pero este lo hizo! Lo que más disfruté no fue la historia de amor, sino que los personajes. Georgie, Seth, Neal... Ame leerlos y saber de sus vidas por unos días...
Landline es un libro muy fácil y rápido de leer, pero sin embargo lo leí lento (lo que para mí sería en 4 días) y no fue porque no me gustase, sino que justo tuve cosas y no pude leer. Pero agradezco haberlo leído lento porque disfrute todo mucho.
Admito que al final hay partes que se hacen medio pesadas, por eso le baje media estrella, pero es un 4.5 para mí!!
Landline es un libro muy fácil y rápido de leer, pero sin embargo lo leí lento (lo que para mí sería en 4 días) y no fue porque no me gustase, sino que justo tuve cosas y no pude leer. Pero agradezco haberlo leído lento porque disfrute todo mucho.
Admito que al final hay partes que se hacen medio pesadas, por eso le baje media estrella, pero es un 4.5 para mí!!
txpamcakers's review
3.0
I would probably say 3.5 stars. I enjoy Rowell's style and pop culture references. I enjoyed the characters. It just dragged in parts for me. I wanted to like it more, but I liked Fangirl, Attachments, and Eleanor and Park way more.
valefimbres's review
challenging
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
kathydavie's review
5.0
A fictional bit of literature that explores relationships with a bit of "time travel".
My Take
Wow. Wow. Wow. It took a few pages, but Rowell pulled me in and kept me on tenterhooks. I couldn't read fast enough. And I didn't want to read too fast. Partly because I was dreading the outcome, one I was desperate to know.
And that contradiction is so typical of this story as Georgie is at war with herself. … And I can feel you waiting to find out with whom she's at war, lol.
It's love. It's truth. It's a chance to look back and move forward, to discover what's wrong and fix it. To understand what's truly important.
It's only Rowell's second book that I've read, and I am falling in love with her writing. I'm understanding why her books are so well received. She's fast becoming one of the authors on my must-buy list.
It's a great switch, if only because Georgie is the perfect characterization of a "husband": too absorbed in her work, careless of her "wife", an absentee parent whose children love her. Meanwhile, Neal decorates the house, paints murals, cares for their children, cooks, and is relatively patient with Georgie. And Seth is the irritant between them.
Georgie herself is a mess. She never takes time out for what's important. She wants that contact with her family, with Neal, but won't take the time to change out her battery. I think she has one bra, and it's dying. She ignores everything in her life that's not work. And it's symptomatic of her marriage. Still, she is willing to be realistic. To love Neal enough to want him to be happy.
Neal, of course, has his issues. He also has the most beautiful, if unorthodox, way of expressing his love for Georgie.
It's that phone that's so confusing to read about, and it's a well-done bit of writing that reflects how Georgie's feeling about it. Rowell makes us feel what Georgie's feeling. Although I still don't understand the bit about "we'll make our own enough". I'm just not making that connection.
It's comedic, it's tragic, it makes me cry and laugh. I adored it. Me, the queen of wanting it all to be fixed and happily ever after…Landline is so real.
The Story
Georgie is a screenwriter who's always known exactly what she wants: a career as a comedy writer and Neal. Only she only pays attention to her career and her writing partner and best friend: Seth. A man of whom Neal is jealous but accepts because Georgie says he has nothing to worry about.
Now it's been fourteen years in…and it's fourteen years back. She and Seth have the chance to make a nineteen-year dream come true, but it's at the expense of Christmas with her family. Yet another sacrifice…
The Characters
Georgie McCool has wanted to make people laugh forever and loves being a screenwriter. She's also an absentee mom married to Neal Grafton, the cartoonist of the college days Stop the Sun comic strip, an artist studying oceanology who wants nothing to do with a real ocean. A man who doesn't know what he wants. Other than Georgie. Alice and Naomi "Noomi", the best green kitty in the world, are their daughters.
The always-turned-out, womanizing Seth is Georgie's other half, her writing partner. They've been best friends for years. Dawn is Neal's ex-fiancée back in Nebraska.
Scotty is their jokester third. Jeff'd Up is the show for which the three of them currently write. Jeff German is the jerky star of the show while Trev is its break-out star. Pamela is the screenwriters' PA.
Georgie's family
Mom, Liz Lyons, is a serial marrier, each husband getting younger. The current one is Kendrick, three years older than Georgie. Heather Wisner is Georgie's eighteen-year-old sister, "the dog with the least ribbons". Petunia is the pregnant prize-winning pug; I think Porky is the daddy. Alison is the pizza girl. Ludy was Georgie's best friend in high school.
Neal's family
It's actually just Margaret, Neal's mother, as his father, Paul, passed away a few years ago.
Maher Jafari is a network guy who wants a meeting directly after Christmas about Passing Time, the show Georgie and Seth have been batting back and forth since college. Rahul will become a character on the show.
The Spoon was the college The Harvard Lampoon where George meets Seth and Neal. Whit is a fellow student and on The Spoon staff as well.
The Cover and Title
The cover is basic, a greige background with an iconic yellow handset for an old-fashioned rotary telephone. I do love how its black twisted cord unravels to become the title, that chance, that connection, that Landline to Georgie's future.
My Take
Wow. Wow. Wow. It took a few pages, but Rowell pulled me in and kept me on tenterhooks. I couldn't read fast enough. And I didn't want to read too fast. Partly because I was dreading the outcome, one I was desperate to know.
And that contradiction is so typical of this story as Georgie is at war with herself. … And I can feel you waiting to find out with whom she's at war, lol.
It's love. It's truth. It's a chance to look back and move forward, to discover what's wrong and fix it. To understand what's truly important.
It's only Rowell's second book that I've read, and I am falling in love with her writing. I'm understanding why her books are so well received. She's fast becoming one of the authors on my must-buy list.
"He kissed her like he was drawing a perfectly straight line.I love how she takes ordinary life and makes it more. In this case, it's a switching of the expected role of parents with Mom being the breadwinner and Dad the househusband. A woman who laughs and needs to make people laugh loving a man who doesn't laugh.
He kissed her in India ink."
It's a great switch, if only because Georgie is the perfect characterization of a "husband": too absorbed in her work, careless of her "wife", an absentee parent whose children love her. Meanwhile, Neal decorates the house, paints murals, cares for their children, cooks, and is relatively patient with Georgie. And Seth is the irritant between them.
"…I want to ruin you for everyone."
Georgie herself is a mess. She never takes time out for what's important. She wants that contact with her family, with Neal, but won't take the time to change out her battery. I think she has one bra, and it's dying. She ignores everything in her life that's not work. And it's symptomatic of her marriage. Still, she is willing to be realistic. To love Neal enough to want him to be happy.
Neal, of course, has his issues. He also has the most beautiful, if unorthodox, way of expressing his love for Georgie.
It's that phone that's so confusing to read about, and it's a well-done bit of writing that reflects how Georgie's feeling about it. Rowell makes us feel what Georgie's feeling. Although I still don't understand the bit about "we'll make our own enough". I'm just not making that connection.
It's comedic, it's tragic, it makes me cry and laugh. I adored it. Me, the queen of wanting it all to be fixed and happily ever after…Landline is so real.
The Story
Georgie is a screenwriter who's always known exactly what she wants: a career as a comedy writer and Neal. Only she only pays attention to her career and her writing partner and best friend: Seth. A man of whom Neal is jealous but accepts because Georgie says he has nothing to worry about.
Now it's been fourteen years in…and it's fourteen years back. She and Seth have the chance to make a nineteen-year dream come true, but it's at the expense of Christmas with her family. Yet another sacrifice…
The Characters
Georgie McCool has wanted to make people laugh forever and loves being a screenwriter. She's also an absentee mom married to Neal Grafton, the cartoonist of the college days Stop the Sun comic strip, an artist studying oceanology who wants nothing to do with a real ocean. A man who doesn't know what he wants. Other than Georgie. Alice and Naomi "Noomi", the best green kitty in the world, are their daughters.
The always-turned-out, womanizing Seth is Georgie's other half, her writing partner. They've been best friends for years. Dawn is Neal's ex-fiancée back in Nebraska.
Scotty is their jokester third. Jeff'd Up is the show for which the three of them currently write. Jeff German is the jerky star of the show while Trev is its break-out star. Pamela is the screenwriters' PA.
Georgie's family
Mom, Liz Lyons, is a serial marrier, each husband getting younger. The current one is Kendrick, three years older than Georgie. Heather Wisner is Georgie's eighteen-year-old sister, "the dog with the least ribbons". Petunia is the pregnant prize-winning pug; I think Porky is the daddy. Alison is the pizza girl. Ludy was Georgie's best friend in high school.
Neal's family
It's actually just Margaret, Neal's mother, as his father, Paul, passed away a few years ago.
Maher Jafari is a network guy who wants a meeting directly after Christmas about Passing Time, the show Georgie and Seth have been batting back and forth since college. Rahul will become a character on the show.
The Spoon was the college The Harvard Lampoon where George meets Seth and Neal. Whit is a fellow student and on The Spoon staff as well.
The Cover and Title
The cover is basic, a greige background with an iconic yellow handset for an old-fashioned rotary telephone. I do love how its black twisted cord unravels to become the title, that chance, that connection, that Landline to Georgie's future.
lucyistoocool's review
5.0
Rainbow Rowell is notorious for writing books with very little plot and a ton of dialogue and feeling. I love it and I love that ratio and I love her and I love this book
karrama's review
3.0
Landline is the story of a woman writing for a TV show who gets the opportunity to write the pilot of her dreams with her college friend/crush over the winter holidays. Her already unhappy husband and children head off in one direction and our heroine, Georgie, stays with this dream job and still-slightly-intriguing friend. The name comes from Georgie's cell phone acting up and she begins to use the landline, an old rotary phone that serves as the medium for her continued communications with her family.
I love reading Rainbow Rowell's writing, but I didn't gel with this one. I couldn't catch on with the characters emotions, though the motivations were clear. I wanted to like it so much, but just couldn't. It's a solid Goodreads 2⋆ book. I read it all the way through, but I didn't really "Like" it as a three star would have been. Partly, I admit that I don't like reading stories about husbands and wives fighting, and partly the mechanism was too on the nose for me. This book was solidly OK. All in all, I'm looking forward to Rainbow Rowell's 2015 release regardless.
I love reading Rainbow Rowell's writing, but I didn't gel with this one. I couldn't catch on with the characters emotions, though the motivations were clear. I wanted to like it so much, but just couldn't. It's a solid Goodreads 2⋆ book. I read it all the way through, but I didn't really "Like" it as a three star would have been. Partly, I admit that I don't like reading stories about husbands and wives fighting, and partly the mechanism was too on the nose for me. This book was solidly OK. All in all, I'm looking forward to Rainbow Rowell's 2015 release regardless.
gfs0619's review against another edition
5.0
Note to self: just read everything by Rainbow Rowell. Always. Then read it again.
roseltov's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I needed this book. It’s a light and fluffy look at relationships and making love work day to day. I didn’t love love the characters, but I liked the idea of the story and that carried it for me.