Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Perhaps you can say that I am ATTACHED to this book,

Truly, one of a kind, Attachments is luminous in its beauty;

Lincoln O’Neill, your cliche Jason Bateman lookalike, is an internet security officer. Emails from two work-best friends start appearing in his red-flagged mail folder, as they speak of their personal lives in all aspects and continue to cross out from the list of red-flagged words, one by one. Lincoln is bound by the niceness of both girls and is unwilling to send them a warning. Email by email, story by story, Lincoln slowly discovers his feelings towards one of the girls, but when he musters up the sense to speak to her, it is already too late..

With Rainbow Rowell’s style of writing, a book is never less than amazing, to be able to convey a situation of taming an emotion to a person unmet, just through words and private letters—that weren’t even directed to him—like a reader falling in love with a book’s characters, except they weren’t fictional to him; they were real. They felt real.

It is quite fascinating of course, how Rowell can paint an image of a person, how she can so deliberately paint whole scenes with only words as colors, and letters as paintbrushes, she truly stands out with her writings, and I am so overly in love with how the story resembles our digital era and age. The characters are not those who lead a perfect life with perfect bodies and perfect families. Rowell shows us that perhaps beauty is not simply facial features and hair, it is however a matter of heartfelt words and inner souls.

A soul, a spirit, is what plants beauty in a person, when a person is beautiful, you cannot simply see it in the facial features and the hair, you need to look behind the scenes, behind the windows that blink every few seconds and with every blink they shed secrets, hidden stories.

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell.

Nostalgic. Euphoric. Attaching.

-HK