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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Dey Street Books (April 7, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062262130
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062262134
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
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3.0 out of 5 starsAn Interesting Take on Dating in the Modern World
By Darlene @ Peeking Between the Pages on April 23, 2015
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Read Bottom Up by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham is a short novel (can be read in a few hours) about dating in the modern world of today. It’s told exclusively through emails and text messages and it really does scream of the world we live in now. Back in my days of dating we didn’t have social media. It was the phone or nothing. Yet still the same emotions and insecurities exist today – they are just communicated in a different way.

Madeline and Elliot meet at a restaurant opening and begin dating. Of course in today’s world it’s all about emailing and text messaging and we see the relationship between these two unfold in just that way. In addition to the messages between Madeline and Elliot we also have the messages between Madeline and Emily (her best friend) and Elliot and David (his best friend). You really can see from the beginning that this relationship may be doomed because these two want very different things from life. Madeline is looking for a really serious relationship while Elliot is still looking to just have fun and doesn’t really see the big deal if he doesn’t answer a text message for days.

As the relationship progresses we see the insecurities and over analyzing of the relationship. Both Madeline and Elliot are constantly copying and pasting messages and sending them to their best friends for their opinions. There is anger and a million questions but neither makes a move to just confront the situation. It’s a normal dating scenario – just taking place in today’s world where everything seems to revolve around social media. I don’t want to give away the eventual outcome of the book but I will say I was pleasantly surprised by the ending.

I enjoyed this book primarily because of the format.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsShort. Simplistic. Yet witty.
By Celine Derudder on July 3, 2015
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1.I was disappointed by how short the novel was, almost an e-book! (and gasp, for that price too!)
Okay, so I should have checked the number of pages beforehand. All right. Still, it's short-lived. How much character development can you expect to see a) through the lens of emails only, b) with only 2 other characters than the main ones, c) in such a short span?
2. Simplistic : if you can play along with the whole only-best-friend-concept. It's like the 2 main characters don't know anybody else, don't have any other friends. It just came across as a bit forced and unnatural in my opinion.
3.It's not earth-shattering but definitely funny. Okay, people in real life are not as full of witty remarks, but neither are they in movies. It's light, it's relatable, it's not cliché.
I guess I expected just a little bit more. More content. More characters (siblings, parents, colleagues, exes...) More PAGES!
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5.0 out of 5 starsTimes do changes the rules do no
By Mary Gramlich VINE VOICE on January 26, 2016
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Relationship maneuvering is one of the most difficult interactions you will ever have, whether it is one or multiple people you become involved with. There is posturing for attention, positioning for control, and best of all trying to read the other person’s thoughts at all times. The one consistent through time is the communication between the two people in the relationship and the closest of friend you share your perceptions with at length. Prior to the electronic revolution we picked up the phone and dissected every single piece of the pie, now via email and social media we do basically the same exact action with still that closest of friend and the same exacting amount of thinking every single word to death.

When Madeline and Elliot begin the relationship it is literally via email and a few texts which get ramped up to personal quick dates and interaction for a lunch or dinner. They begin to build from the bottom a relationship based on honesty and little prior baggage but we all know how that pans out. They send a text here, email there, visit around, and line by line try to analyze actions both verbal and electronic with their friends and each other. As the relationship ramps up or down there is still the discussion that must be had to make sure what is going is understood or implied; correct or wrong; or is this even going to work out.

One can never step back to the way things were done and truly you do not want to the past is not that glorious. But is the irony that we over communicate and get at times cross the line into stalking? Everyone thinks they invented the wheel but let’s face facts before we could deep dive on Facebook we drove around and followed the person we wanted to check out. Which was is creepier, you tell me
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4.0 out of 5 starsSummer Read
By margieebee on May 29, 2015
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This is a fun, easy summer read. I don't think anyone should/could go in to this believing it to be anything more- and that's OK! I had just finished the biography of Alan Turing, so my brain needed a break! I believe I read Read Bottom Up in one or two sittings. I am in my late 20's which is more or less the same age as the characters in the book, so I could relate to the type and course of the relationship of the featured couple. This is probably the single biggest factor that led to my enjoyment of this book.
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4.0 out of 5 starsWe see the two main characters' (a young man and a young woman) communications as well as their communications with the respecti
By Chris on June 10, 2015
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This novel is delivered entirely through text messages and emails (pretty on par with the way most new relationships develop these days). We see the two main characters' (a young man and a young woman) communications as well as their communications with the respective best friends. Madeline and Elliott seem ill matched from the get-go and their friends are aware of this but respectful. There is a lot of confusion and word play and you see how two perspectives of the same date can be oh so different. I won't give away the ending but I will say that the foreshadowing was pretty evident. I read the whole book in a few hours' time and thus would recommend it to anyone wanting a quick read that is pretty indicative of where the dating world stands today.
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