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WIJFR: Landline by Rainbow Rowell (spoilers)
I don't think it will come as any surprise that I absolutely loved this book. It might surpass Fangirl as my favorite RR novel. I wasn't worried about the "supernatural" element of the phone because I knew that if anyone could make it work, Rainbow Rowell could.
I loved the complexity of the characters. I loved that Georgie and Neal's relationship didn't start off perfectly and gradually shift into them growing apart. They were at odds from the very beginning but the love between them kept them together. I feel like a lot of relationships are like this and sometimes books tend to sugarcoat or romanticize marriage as the be all end all of happiness...but it's not.
Some of my favorite parts of the book were Georgie's conversations with her girls. You could tell that she wasn't exactly the most maternal woman in the world, but she loved the girls fiercely. Every time she meowed back at Noomi, my heart grew three times in size.
The writing. Oh my gosh there were so many ridiculously perfect sentences I really didn't know what to do with myself. Her writing isn't flowery and descriptive. It's very precise and simple...but there is so much imagery in those short simple sentences. I texted @EliStar last night after reading (despite the 3 hour time difference, sorry girl) and we gushed over our favorite parts because there were SO MANY.
I have read quite a few comments where people were shaming Georgie for putting her job before her family. Georgie was the breadwinner. (A house in Calabasas is NOT cheap) She was the one with the ambition, the drive, and the dreams that she wanted to make come true before she even met Neal. Neal had no real ambition or career goals or anything. He was still coasting through life undecided about what he wanted to do even after they got married. He was working a dead end job when Georgie was pregnant and she was the one making the lion's share of the income. It made sense for him to stay at home and I was actually swooning over the fact that he did. I think if their roles were reversed and Georgie was pissed at Neal for missing Christmas for work, no one would think too much of it because gender roles being what they are, it's expected for the man to have the career and the woman to stay at home with the children. Georgie working and possibly taking her career to the next level was important and if she were male no one would have questioned it. I'm really grateful to Rainbow Rowell for making this one of the novel's themes and never outright touching on the fact that it was out of the social norm for their 'roles' to be reversed. #damnthepatriarchy
I seriously loved this book so much. Highly recommend it and hope everyone reads it. 5 stars!!!!
Oh and incidentally, @packfan20...I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that in your post about Landline a few weeks ago, you totally spoiled it for me. LOL. You quoted the one sentence from the book that pretty much sums up the whole point of the story. I'm sure you did it unintentionally and no judgment but as I reading the scene in the lingerie store where Georgie realizes that Neal proposed with words her present self said to past him the night before, I thought, "dammit packfan!" 
Re: WIJFR: Landline by Rainbow Rowell (spoilers)
Attachments is still my favorite of her books but this was by far the most relatable for me. Oh my gosh- the end with the girls made me tear up!
And, sorry to say, I was disappointed about the moderate spoilers being in packfan's post too. While the telephone on the cover and title would highly indicate that a phone had a lot to do with the story, I was going into it blindly and had no idea there was a magic phone. Score one for naïveté.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks