My July reads

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Rainbow Rowell - Landline 3/5
Georgie McCool is a succesfull tv writer. Two weeks before Christmas, just as the is about to leave for Omaha with her much neglected husband and two young daughters, Georgie gets the breakthrough of a lifetime. She lets her family go away without her, but falls apart herself. Especially when an old phone at her mother's house seems to connect her to the past.

A great idea for a story, still, this was the least favourite of the Rowell books I've read so far. The story seemed to drag a bit, maybe because too large a part was spend just describing the long phone conversations of Georgie and her husband Neill. For me that was just a bit too boring.

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