Am I becoming an adult?! YA I’ll never leave you!!!) about a guy falling in love with his coworker over reading her email. It’s her least-well-known book, but the one she has a special attachment to (har dee har) because it was her debut, an adult novel (I’ve now reviewed 2 adult books in a row. It was on sale, and I bought it because I saw Rainbow – that’s right, I’m on first name terms with her in my head – had written it and I love her books for their concepts, cute jokes, laid-back style and woodsy men. It was an exciting event that my friend and I nerded out over and I wrote it to sound pretentious.) But I say it because maybe their amazing-author vibes are what led me to find this holy grail of a book. That’s right everyone, jealous? I do that all the time! (I am sadly lying. I happened to pick up Attachments at the Housing Works bookstore in NYC one day when waiting for an author event with Gayle Forman, Libba Bray, and E. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.” This book about love and emails (possibly my two favorite things) is so good and beloved to me that the only words I can find to describe the experience of reading it are from the book itself: “There are moments when you can’t believe something wonderful is happening. “I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”
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