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Eleanor & Park

Rainbow Rowell

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 3, 2015

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Jul 18, 2014 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya

GUYS. You didn't warn me about the feels. I WAS NOT PREPARED.

What I absolutely loved about this book (apart from it being completely adorable in every way) was how perfectly Rowell gets the teenager thing. Nobody will understand me. I'm too weird. I'm too skinny. I'm not skinny enough. I'm too clever. And so on, endlessly worrying about not being the right thing, or being the wrong thing.

And that teenager attitude which J.K. Rowling also gets so right: Never ever turning to adults for help becau ...more

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Sep 05, 2014 Celeste rated it liked it · review of another edition

I really like Rainbow Rowell's stories-this is the second I have read. I love the way she describes things and the dialogue between the characters makes me laugh and makes me think "aw, how sweet". Based on that part of the book I would give it 5 stars. That said, I almost didn't finish this book-the "F" word was over the top and almost completely ruined the book. I was listening to it on audio book (which the readers are fantastic) and sometimes the "F" word is easier to read than to listen to, ...more

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Apr 19, 2014 Debbie rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, realistic-fiction

Eleanor and Park both feel like they don't fit in, but as they gradually discover each other, they find that they fit together.

Eleanor is all wrong. Her red hair is too much, she's overweight, and her oversized, mismatched clothes don't do anything for her appearance. She's also the new girl at school and a target for bullies from her first day.

Park is part Korean and worries that his white dad thinks he's too Asian and too effeminate (unlike his brother, who looks more like their dad).

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Jan 13, 2014 Judy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: bookgroup, youngadult, fiction, good-for-book-group

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Jan 25, 2014 Debbie rated it really liked it

I read the first few chapters and then took a break for a week, and then I couldn't remember what was going on, so I had to go back and reread those chapters again.

That being said, I'm glad I got into this book. So many of my students and former students loved it, and I see why now. Eleanor is such a force to be reckoned with - confident and unsure of herself, beautiful with hidden bits of ugly, smart and hard-working while being naive and distrusting of the world. And Park is the kind of guy th ...more

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Jul 29, 2014 Heather rated it liked it

I'm sort of hoping this intentionally left room for a sequel. I really liked the writing and the characters, and their interactions.i was into the story. But the ending felt abrupt and unfinished. ...more

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Sep 23, 2014 Sam rated it it was amazing

SO engaging and sweet. I lapped it up and was very tense near end. The ending however is pitch perfect. If only all relationships could end and begin in such a manner.

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