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Wired Love (Annotated): A Romance of Dots and Dashes
177 pages, Paperback
Published October 9, 2025
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February 25, 2026
I'd heard from friends that this was a good story and I received this copy as a gift... otherwise I would have DNF'd early on. I'd have missed a good story though... it just took awhile to grow on me. I really started to enjoy this at the dinner scene and then it was a pretty great story from then on. I found it interesting the different outcomes of the relationships the author "starts". It was neat to see the women having the agency to go the directions they chose to go, as well as seeing the folly in their one friend who was letting his life be dictated for him. This is what I call the "healthy" Feminist literature of the time. Pro-woman without being militant in a certain direction.
I had two big beefs with this book. One is the author's issue and one is the annotator/editor's. I found some parts of the story to be pretty shallow, especially how the author has her characters constantly criticizing people’s appearances. One woman is only described by her (seemingly shocking) weight of 175 pounds. The biggest problem with another character is his red hair and what he chooses to style it with. Over and over again, the characters are making judgements about, and even being disgusted by, the appearance of others. This tells me everything I need to know about this author as most of her main characters said things like this, it wasn't just the character of one particular person.
The second issue is that this book is just badly edited. There are so many instances of words without spaces between and lots of spelling mistakes. It's unfortunate for the woman who is putting out these series as annotating and republishing lesser known works is a fantastic idea but sacrificing the step of editing can kill the best of stories. This is the second time I've come across a badly edited book this month and both were independently published. It's probably not that big a deal to some, but it makes me immediately disrespect the work.
Overall, though, it was a cute story and I'm glad I read it! It reminded me of the very early days of the internet when I was a freshman in college exploring chat rooms. We couldn't (or didn't know how to) send pictures then, either, so one could be whomever they had the imagination to be! Fun and mysterious then... terrifying now!
Signed, Petty and Pretentious in Arkansas
I had two big beefs with this book. One is the author's issue and one is the annotator/editor's. I found some parts of the story to be pretty shallow, especially how the author has her characters constantly criticizing people’s appearances. One woman is only described by her (seemingly shocking) weight of 175 pounds. The biggest problem with another character is his red hair and what he chooses to style it with. Over and over again, the characters are making judgements about, and even being disgusted by, the appearance of others. This tells me everything I need to know about this author as most of her main characters said things like this, it wasn't just the character of one particular person.
The second issue is that this book is just badly edited. There are so many instances of words without spaces between and lots of spelling mistakes. It's unfortunate for the woman who is putting out these series as annotating and republishing lesser known works is a fantastic idea but sacrificing the step of editing can kill the best of stories. This is the second time I've come across a badly edited book this month and both were independently published. It's probably not that big a deal to some, but it makes me immediately disrespect the work.
Overall, though, it was a cute story and I'm glad I read it! It reminded me of the very early days of the internet when I was a freshman in college exploring chat rooms. We couldn't (or didn't know how to) send pictures then, either, so one could be whomever they had the imagination to be! Fun and mysterious then... terrifying now!
Signed, Petty and Pretentious in Arkansas
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