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I finished Landline! I haven't been able to read much because 8 hours of work and now it's apparently Family Movie Night, but I am staying up as late as I can reading tonight and hope to finish at least one more book. I don't think I've ever finished 2 books in one day before, so I'm super excited. Anyway, I wanted to review Landline because I loved it. Here is my summary and review! (Spoiler alert included) Landline is a novel that definitely deserves all the recognition it has gotten so far. With a moral that transcends time and relationships and absolutely beautiful writing, it was a delightful read. Meet Georgie McCool. With a name that precedes her, she is an aspiring television comedy writer that is about to get her big break. Of course, this comes in the midst of a planned family vacation- one that may be one of her last chances at saving her slowly failing marriage. As her husband Neal and 2 daughters leave for Omaha, Georgie stays behind to work. As the book goes on, you learn this isn't an uncommon thing. Work always comes first, and Neal is there when she decides she needs him. After a long day of work, her mother insists that she come over and stay at her house that night due to her husband leaving her. Georgie agrees, although with confusion as to why her mother thinks Neal left her even though he only left for the week. She repeatedly tries calling Neal, only to reach his voicemail. Eventually she tries to call him from the old landline in her room. This time the call goes through, and they are left talking about how they're both sorry for the fight. She finds herself a little confused with his responses, but they talk and talk. The next day, while she is contemplating the call, she realizes he said some things very familiar to a fight they had while in college. She also notes that Neal's father talked to her even though he had died years ago. The more they talk and she contemplates how crazy this whole thing is, she realized the phone is connecting her to Neal from college, Neal before they were engaged. The story revolves around her conflict of whether or not she should try to change their life by making him leave her, or staying together and improving their relationship. I cannot emphasize how unique and wonderful this book is. The lessons hit home with me and are important for anyone in a serious relationship to read. Beautiful writing, great morals, and easily relatable characters.

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Classic Words of Wisdom. For me, it's "so it goes." This was the first thing I tattooed on my body and it is very special to me. It comes from one of the greatest authors of all time, Kurt Vonnegut. The premise is simple. Humans are the only species who believe that we control our destiny, that time is linear, that tragedies are preventable. Whenever someone passes away, it is because they were meant to die in that way at that time from the moment they were born. It was not preventable, and they had a great amount of time in their life. When someone passes, you just say "so it goes" and move on, because that is just how life is.

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Elgin, IL  2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Landline! It's really popular and I love Rainbow Rowell.  3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Chocolateeee!  4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I like books, puppies, holistics, beauty products, and I'm crazy. Idk my life is weird.  5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? I'm looking forward to a day filled with books of course!

Hi I'm Christina and I like books. So I'm participating in the Dewey 24 hour readathon! That's why this blog was made, but I'll probably use it for other stuff afterwards because why not?