Romance for the young and young at heart

Have your read any Rainbow Rowell? She writes romance stories for young adults, but she leaves out the messy stuff, just sweet love, memories and very readable introspection.

In Eleanor and Park, Rowell explores first love, school outcasts, bullying and family violence. She tells her story in two voices with both Eleanor and Park describing the thrill of their first love, and she protects Eleanor from her abusive step-father, providing a way for her to run away. It would be hard not to love this charming story.

 

In Attachments, the characters are a little older, late 20s, and they have typical 20 something issues: finding a job that is inspiring, working on a marriage, first baby, realizing that the love of your life is not the love of your life. Lincoln has a job reading filtered emails at a newspaper office. He has to lay down the law when people use sexual or otherwise inappropriate language. But, he can't bring himself to censer Beth and Jennifer who write pithy emails to each other frequently. As Lincoln comes to know more about their lives, he falls in love with Beth, having never laid eyes on her. 

Keep going Rainbow, I love your work!