Title: Eleanor & Park
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Category: A book you own but haven't read yet
Copyright: 2013
Number of Pages: 325
Summary: Park is a half-Korean boy who has felt like an outsider at home and at school his entire life. He doesn't have a lot of friends, he's obsessed with music, and he absolutely loves comic books. When he first sets eyes on Eleanor, he realizes that he is at least not as much of an outsider as she is.
Eleanor has bright red curly hair and is a little overweight. She wears men's clothes that are too big for her and pins ribbons all over to hide the holes.
The two share silent bus rides together, Eleanor reading Park's comic books over his shoulder. When Park realizes she is reading them too, he starts to bring her a stack of comics every day, and Eleanor always returns them the next day. Throughout these exchanges, they still do not speak to each other.
Eventually the silence breaks, mix tapes are exchanged, and romance blossoms. In the midst of falling in love, Eleanor has to deal with being bullied at school and a dangerous home life. She takes refuge at Park's house every evening until one day things escalate at her house, causing her to leave and not be able to return. Park borrows/steals the family truck and spends all night driving Eleanor to her uncle's house. Though the two are separated by several miles and Eleanor doesn't return any of Park's calls or letters, he never loses hope.
Review: Eleanor & Park was so surprisingly good that I finished it in 24 hours. It has been a long time since a book caught my attention well enough to keep me awake until 3AM.
This book was so well written. I feel in love with the characters and felt deeply for them. I laughed out loud, got enraged, and even cried a few times.
I loved the awkwardness of how Park and Eleanor's relationship develops. It was so hard to take at times but I just couldn't but the book down.
The only thing that perplexed me is that this is classified as Young Adult Fiction yet the F word is all over the first page of chapter one. Maybe it's just me but I didn't think you could say that in a book and call it Young Adult.
That being said, if you haven't read this one you really should. Let me know what you think after you do!
Next I am going to read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Amazon's website states! Told in the language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Category: A book you own but haven't read yet
Copyright: 2013
Number of Pages: 325
Summary: Park is a half-Korean boy who has felt like an outsider at home and at school his entire life. He doesn't have a lot of friends, he's obsessed with music, and he absolutely loves comic books. When he first sets eyes on Eleanor, he realizes that he is at least not as much of an outsider as she is.
Eleanor has bright red curly hair and is a little overweight. She wears men's clothes that are too big for her and pins ribbons all over to hide the holes.
The two share silent bus rides together, Eleanor reading Park's comic books over his shoulder. When Park realizes she is reading them too, he starts to bring her a stack of comics every day, and Eleanor always returns them the next day. Throughout these exchanges, they still do not speak to each other.
Eventually the silence breaks, mix tapes are exchanged, and romance blossoms. In the midst of falling in love, Eleanor has to deal with being bullied at school and a dangerous home life. She takes refuge at Park's house every evening until one day things escalate at her house, causing her to leave and not be able to return. Park borrows/steals the family truck and spends all night driving Eleanor to her uncle's house. Though the two are separated by several miles and Eleanor doesn't return any of Park's calls or letters, he never loses hope.
Review: Eleanor & Park was so surprisingly good that I finished it in 24 hours. It has been a long time since a book caught my attention well enough to keep me awake until 3AM.
This book was so well written. I feel in love with the characters and felt deeply for them. I laughed out loud, got enraged, and even cried a few times.
I loved the awkwardness of how Park and Eleanor's relationship develops. It was so hard to take at times but I just couldn't but the book down.
The only thing that perplexed me is that this is classified as Young Adult Fiction yet the F word is all over the first page of chapter one. Maybe it's just me but I didn't think you could say that in a book and call it Young Adult.
That being said, if you haven't read this one you really should. Let me know what you think after you do!
Next I am going to read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Amazon's website states! Told in the language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream
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