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Attachments [Hardcover]

Rainbow Rowell
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (123 customer reviews)


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April 14, 2011
"Attachments is so perfectly engaging, so sly, and so funny I read it all in one sitting, then went back and read my favorite scenes a second time...I hope Rowell never stops writing."
-Haven Kimmel


Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail. But the women still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. Jennifer tells Beth everything she can't seem to tell her husband about her anxieties over starting a family. And Beth tells Jennifer everything, period.

When Lincoln applied to be an Internet security officer, he hardly imagined he'd be sifting through other people's inboxes like some sort of electronic Peeping Tom. Lincoln is supposed to turn people in for misusing company e-mail, but he can't quite bring himself to crack down on Beth and Jennifer. He can't help but be entertained-and captivated- by their stories.

But by the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late for him to ever introduce himself. What would he say to her? "Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you." After a series of close encounters and missed connections, Lincoln decides it's time to muster the courage to follow his heart . . . even if he can't see exactly where it's leading him.

Written with whip-smart precision and charm, Attachments is a strikingly clever and deeply romantic debut about falling in love with the person who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. Even if it's someone you've never met.



Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In sweet, silly, and incredibly long digital missives, best newsroom pals Beth and Jennifer trade gossip over their romances—Beth with her marriage-phobic boyfriend, Chris, and Jennifer with her baby-mania-stricken husband, Mitch. What they don't know is that the newly hired computer guy, Lincoln, an Internet security officer charged with weeding out all things unnecessary or pornographic, is reading their messages. But lonely Lincoln lets the gals slide on their inappropriate office mail and gets hooked on their soapy dalliances, falling head over heels for the unlucky-in-love Beth. Debut novelist and real-life newspaper columnist Rowell has the smarts for this You've Got Mail–like tale of missed connections, but what doesn't work so well is the firewall between the traditional narrative reserved for Lincoln's emergence from shy guy to Beth's guy, and heroines who are confined to the e-epistolary format. Despite the structural problems, there's enough heart and humor to save these likable characters from the recycle bin. (Apr.)
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"Rainbow Rowell lights up the sky with this sparkling debut novel. ATTACHMENTS is fresh, fun and charmingly quirky."
-Claire Cook


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Dutton Adult; First Edition edition (April 14, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0525951989
  • ISBN-13: 978-0525951988
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (123 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rainbow Rowell is the author of ATTACHMENTS, ELEANOR & PARK and FANGIRL. When she's not writing, she's obsessing over other people's made-up characters, planning Disney World trips, and arguing about things that don't really matter in the big scheme of things.

Customer Reviews

The characters are well developed and the pacing is perfect. LHHussey  |  31 reviewers made a similar statement
What can I say, I really loved everything about this book. Alexis  |  24 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Airport Moments April 15, 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
When I arrived today at the airport for a flight to Chicago, I was secretly happy that the weather was so awful. I have to admit that I have never in my life ever thought this....and I have flown over 700k miles on United alone. But happy I was. Because it was going to give me more time with Attachments. I started reading. The first delay was announced. I smiled and kept reading. The second delay was announced I was relieved. I needed to know more about Lincoln. I needed to read more of Beth's fabulous one-liners. (How does one know when one's cervix is ripe? Do you thump it?...HA!). They announced boarding....and I thought.... Maybe we will be further delayed....hopefully..... They announced another delay....this time indefinite! I quietly rejoiced. I was the only one of hundreds of Chicago bound passengers smiling as I sank deeper and deeper into Lincoln, Beth and Jennifer....hoping to just continue living in their world.....6 hours of delays later.....it was the best flight experience I have had....ever. Because Attachments is everything I want in a book....wonderful characters who I fall in love with and cheer for and care for. Raibow, Thanks for a wonderful flight. If you couldn't tell - I loved it.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bright, affectionate, gracious and hopeful April 23, 2011
By Whit
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Full disclosure: Rainbow is my friend. But I'll tell you what: If her book was lame, I would just not write a review? Because telling someone to read something that blows is mean to EVERYBODY. You would be all up in her grill. And write mean reviews right here.

But Attachments really IS is gentle, joshing, sweet and hopeful. Rowell puts her funny in the mouths of her well-drawn characters, likable types that you'd be pleased to meet and that you're happy to eavesdrop on. Her late-90s newsroom is familiar to me, because I knew lots of people in the newsroom that inspired her. She captures it delightfully, with attention to workplace detail and local feeling. She cradles her story in the crook of her elbow, and makes it seem easy to craft a narrative that is long on kind insights into good people.

No villain emerges. (Not even some real doofuses whom she pricks but declines to skewer.) Her cast of characters is making the best that they can of all of the day, not just its remains. You'll find yourself happy at their advances and sure their reverses will not last.

If there's a criticism, that's the one. Tension is limited and the sense that truth will out and love will conquer is never far from the surface of the page. It's a bit like Shakespearean comedy, where you know from the first moment that the strapping cast swaggers and sashays on that everything will be OK, at least eventually. There's no moment when we think the root will snap and a hero will plummet to a sad end. The safety harness is visible in every chapter.

I'll not be dissuaded from congratulating our author, all the same. She has found a charming voice with which to enter publishing.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Attachments April 14, 2011
Format:Hardcover
Attachments

Have you ever fallen in love through email? Lincoln did in this light-hearted and funny book, Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, due to be published in April 2011. The story begins with Lincoln feeling like he's somehow trespassing into his co-workers lives as the IT Security Office watchdog. His job requires him to monitor the email going in and out of the newspaper office for red flag warnings issued through the Webfence mail filters. Two non-politically correct co-workers in particular, Jennifer and Beth, catch his attention and he begins to feel as if he knows them. Things heat up when Beth sends an email to Jennifer about 'my cute guy'. It dawns on Lincoln that Beth is talking about him! Then the story becomes even funnier as he wrestles with the dilemma of trying to find out what she looks like, where her desk is and feeling like a peeping tom into Beth and Jennifer's lives. This turn of events makes him feel even more disgusted with the progress of his own life, unable to move on after his girlfriend, Sam, broke his heart. His job is boring, his social life consists of playing Dungeons & Dragons on Saturday nights with old college friends and to make matters worse he begins to wonder about his ethics as a result of the email peeping. Beth is struggling with personal issues of her own and how the two eventually meet and fall in love will leave you sighing, 'how romantic'. This book is such a fun read, interweaving chapters of email exchanges with Lincoln's life. It keeps you interested and laughing throughout. I hope you give it a read. This is a good book I know you will enjoy.

*Thank you to Dutton of Penguin Books for my free Advanced Reading Copy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Chick Lit @ Its Best June 1, 2011
By NYCM
Format:Hardcover
I don't do book reviews but I fell in love with Attachments and didn't want it to end. Chick lit can be a shabby genre, with some slapped together stories and badly written characters. This book is what the genre could be, if publishers looked for authors who wrote from the heart and had an authentic voice. The characters are funny and interesting, but most importantly there's a sweetness in them and in the story itself that I haven't found in a long time. The best thing I can compare it to is Bridget Jones, which is the highest chick lit compliment. Just like Bridget captures a certain Brit tone, Attachments nails a Midwestern attitude that's as familiar as it is surprising. All I can say is read this book.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad
It's a quick read and the premise is a little, well, creepy but probably not far off. Lots of the email discussions remind me of me! Had a hard time envisioning the guy though. Read more
Published 10 hours ago by Joan Favret
5.0 out of 5 stars I didn't want it to end...
So good that I didn't want it to end! I reluctantly finished reading so that I would know if Lincoln and Beth got together. Bittersweet.
Published 22 days ago by Katylin M. Kelly
4.0 out of 5 stars Witty and charming
I loved Eleanor and Park, so I was interested in reading something else by Rainbow Rowell. (Plus, I thought the cover was really cute, so I couldn't resist checking it out. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Taryn B.
5.0 out of 5 stars I Love Rainbow Rowell
This was the first book I read by Rainbow Rowell and I am hooked. She writes such wonderfully developed characters, you feel as if you are in the story with them. Read more
Published 27 days ago by MR
4.0 out of 5 stars Book Harbinger: Sweet and rewarding
It's 1999, and Lincoln O'Neill's job is to read employee emails at The Courier, a newspaper who's had the internet in the office for less than three months. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Hollybally
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
I enjoyed the format of this romantic novel. It kept me interested and was hard to put down. I would recommend to teens and adults. Very up-to-date with the emails! :)
Published 1 month ago by catcity
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
Love her books. Can't put down.She has a very bright future for sure.Can't wait for Fangirl to come out soon!
Published 1 month ago by shirley allgood
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It
A pure romantic comedy in the best sense of the word: poignant, funny, and warm. A joy to read from start to finish!
Published 1 month ago by Daphne Jones
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun and different romantic comedy
Cute and fun. Predictable but not. Did drag on a little but maybe that is why you keep guessing. I will read this author again.
Published 1 month ago by S taylor
4.0 out of 5 stars Feel-Good Summer Reading
Attachments is a fun, easy read with a predictable ending but the characters are reasonably well-developed and the premise is interesting.
Published 1 month ago by K. Evans
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