Feature Follow Friday: Author We've Met

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Alison Can Read Feature & Follow
Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! This is a blog hop that allows bloggers to gain new followers and find some awesome new blogs to follow themselves!

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host has a blog that they feature each week!

So, if you're a blogger, come join in on the fun!

Here's today's question -

who are the authors you've met?

Kimi

I've only met one author in my whole life (I know I'm that lame). But the author I did meet was Gayle Forman, one of my favorite authors in the world! I met her from a book signing event last February, and it was honestly one of the best experiences I've ever had. It was my first time to go to a signing and my first time to meet an author as well. She was awesome and fun and so hyper the whole time and I was so giddy when I finally met her!
Read about my Gayle a Forman adventure here: http://geekychiquitas.blogspot.com/2014/01/bookscapades-gayle-forman-book-signing.html
 

 
Audrey

I have never met an author before. I feel deprived. There are, like, a million authors that I want to meet and take pictures with but not a single one of them have graced me with their presence. Anyway, for this post, I will be telling you about one author that I wan to meet. I want to meet Rainbow Rowell. I think that she would be a great author to meet. I also love all her books. She's a great writer. I really hope I do meet her one day, though that probably won't happen.

  



 


BOOK IN REVIEW: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

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Title: Attachments
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Publication Date: April 14, 2011
Hardcover: 336 pages
Rating: 4/5 stars

Upon reading the plot synopsis of this book, I didn't expect myself to actually like it, in the same way that I did not expect myself to like the main character, Lincoln, but I read it anyway because Eleanor & Park and Fangirl were both sooooo good. And there are obviously no regrets. 

Attachments is about Lincoln, your typical 28-year old no-life loser, who's still living with his mother, stuck in a job he doesn't even like, has zero social life unless you consider spending Saturday nights playing D&D with old friends, and who hasn't been with a girl since he broke up with his highschool girlfriend 8 years ago. I'm not a big fan of characters with the nice guy loser syndrome, but Lincoln sure is likable. 

The novel introduces us to Lincoln's new job: being the IT person in charge of monitoring the employee's email accounts for any inappropriate usage. It's his job to read the people's emails and sending them warnings if they say anything profane or inappropriate. It's creepy, but it has good pay, and for Lincoln, at least it's a job. The novel's narrative goes back and forth from Lincoln's 3rd person POV and Jennifer and Beth's email exchanges, a writing style which I really liked, as it kept my interest throughout the book. Reading it was simply a breeze - light, easy and enjoyable. 

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Rainbow Rowell books

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Have you ever just  inhaled a book as if your life depended on it? And I'm not talking about how people love inhaling the fresh, crisp smell of books (I'm not the only one who does that, right?). I'm talking about how a book could just literally take control over you, the way there's nothing else you can do until you just finish that book. You can't put it down, even to pee or eat or sleep, because it's just too fucking good. And once you've finished it, it feels like just a split second has passed, because it was such a great experience that reading it felt like inhaling the book in one single breath.

And then suddenly it's all you can think about. You go to school and see your crush, and that reminds you of that book. You see something as pathetic as a rock, and still it somehow relates back to that book.

I have no idea if I'm even making the slightest bit of sense here, but this is what I've experienced in the past 2 days because of the wonderful works of the gem that is RAINBOW ROWELL.

Not only does this lady have the coolest name ever, she has incredible writing talent. I literally finished all 3 of her novels in just 2 days (I know, I know, I have no life, but whatever) . I've been twitter-stalking her and flooding her with my tweets, which she has replied to (to the sheer joy and happiness of my fangirl heart)


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