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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 3, 2015

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Feb 28, 2012 Melissa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2014, ya

This book DESTROYED me. I felt like I was 16 again.

Then I was DESTROYED again when I read that the evil, Minneapolis-based Parents Action League called this beautiful book "dangerously obscene" and refused to let the author come to a school there to speak to the kids. As a librarian - and a person - this seriously pisses me off.

Then I was DESTROYED yet again reading some of the negative reviews here on Goodreads. I was tempted to write nasty messages to all the people who claimed the romance b ...more

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Oct 07, 2013 martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, year-2013

Does RR seed the pages of her books with crack or what? Like Fangirl, this completely enveloped me. It was bleak and intense and just like for the main characters the highs felt so high and the lows felt so low.

Without giving too much away, (view spoiler) ...more

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Aug 28, 2012 Louise rated it it was amazing

Shelves: book-club

I find it really hard to describe just how amazing this story is. It brings back so many memories of first loves and meeting people when you are younger that just blow your mind. It's such a sweet and truthful story of a high school romance, of two people that meet at just the right time and of the complicated nature of teenage life and love. I really just can't describe how much I loved this story and how I couldn't put it down. ...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Hannah added it

Shelves: historical-fiction, ya

GAWD, I finally read this. Such the feels.

I needed this book in middle school, so that I would have had a worn, well read copy by high school, when I was no longer bullied but just depressed in a different sort of way.

Nothing about the buzz over this book led to it being overrated. It was everything everyone said.

More thoughts here: http://mclicious.org/2014/01/29/in-wh... ...more

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Oct 30, 2013 stephanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: sac-pub-library, would-rec, absolutely-must-read, young-adult, laughed, realistic-fiction-ya, 2013, stand-alone, 50-states-of-ya-2013

oh. this was thoughtful and touching and awkward and. mix tapes! and comics!

broke my heart. and i loved it.

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Dec 12, 2013 Danielle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: bookshelf, favorites, 2014

Every once in awhile there comes a book which takes your breath away, a book that you basically read in one sitting. This was Eleanor & Park.

I downloaded a sample chapter and went to buy the book the next day, and over the course of 6-8 hours, I immersed myself in the painful, yet familiar world that teen protagonists Eleanor and Park resided in.

Eleanor and Park are essentially outsiders who rely on attitude and exterior indicators to try to 'pass' as normal amongst their peers, but who come t ...more

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Sep 19, 2014 misha rated it liked it

Shelves: fastreads, fiction, kids-stuff, 2014

I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. YA isn't my favorite genre, but I love it sometimes (Fault in our Stars, Sorta like a rockstar recently were both YA books that I loved). I suspect that if I read this as a teen, I would have swooned over it. As an adult reading it, it just missed on a variety of levels. ...more

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Aug 05, 2013 Christina, Join Me on Storygraph! rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-recommend, 2013

I loved this one bunches. I loved Eleanor and Park and Park's whole family. I loved that the end was different from what I feared would happen. I loved the 80s nods. I loved the hopeless romanticism of it, the allusions to Romeo and juliet... ...more

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Jan 09, 2014 Heather Wescott rated it really liked it

This is the second book Rainbow Rowell book I've read, and it won't be the last. Her writing really resonates with me, and I can't wait to read more. ...more

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