06/07/2017 
 Yesterday I got home really tired around 9pm and went directly for this book. I started it and didn't stop until I'd finished it. Because it was my 3rd re-reading, I skimmed over some of the bits (mostly, Lincoln/Sam, not gonna lie), though the e-mails I read conscientiously because they're magnificent works of art. I love this book. I adore it. It's one of my favourite books of all times. 
 I think it's interesting how much it defines my life, though. First time I read it I was unsure of what to do with my life, over-educated and yet about to start a master's degree, still living at home. I felt like Lincoln. I WAS Lincoln. Second time around, I had the exact same age as the characters, I had a job, lived by myself, and had a crush on a guy at work, and I thought "I must be growing up, because now I'm Beth." I don't know who I was trying to kid. Yesterday I read this, already older than them, after having quit my job (I hated it) and having gone back to live at my parents'. I AM Lincoln. 
 I say this because I think these are all some of the reasons why I love this book so much. And because I think that this is the only romance in which I 100% identify with the guy. I WANT A BETH. 
 11/03/2013 
 Excuse me, but you have to read this book. 
 I already mentioned it in my 30 days challenge, but it has become my favourite chick-lit novel. Well, the same way Eleanor & Park is like a peripheral YA novel (not exactly subversive but not representative of the genre either), this one fits the chick-lit genre but not-quite-so. 
 The story is about Lincoln. Let me tell you about Lincoln: I love him. Ok, now: he is a 28 years old computer tech, that still lives with his mother because he's just finished university and has never had the necessity to move out. He's been accumulating degrees because he doesn't know what to do with his life (did you mean: my life), and he's in a standstill point in his life. So he's starts working in a newspaper as a computer security guy, despite the fact he hates the job. He's in charge of running the software that detects emails that are personal (forbidden at the workplace) or potentially dangerous, and then, reading the ones that don't pass the test. This way he starts reading the correspondence between Beth and Jennifer. At the beginning, he keeps reading their emails because he's marvelled at the dynamics of their friendship, how genuine it is and how smart they both are. But eventually, he starts falling in love with one of them, without having ever seen her face. PERFECTION. 
 The novel is divided in 3rd person narrator chapters, from Lincoln's point of view (so we understand why he keeps reading this emails, and we get to see how he struggles with his life) and the emails in question interchanged by the two girls. It is really unusual to read a "romance" novel from the point of view of the guy, and not only empathize with him a lot (really, a lot) but also love him and adore him. Don't get me wrong, I loved, loved, loved Beth and Jennifer too, and I want to be their friend too, but Lincoln was something else. 
 Like in Eleanor & Park, the characters have a life and issues unrelated to their love life--Especially Lincoln, since we have his POV. The novel is not only about how he falls in love and tries to get the girl, but about how he gets to move on from this particularly difficult period of his life. I liked that, and I liked to see that his friends and his mother were not a device for the romance plot, but real people who had other things to do too.