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I actually read a YA romance! I didn't think I would read the whole thing, but Eleanor & Park surprised me. The romance feels real and not girly--I could see a boy reading this book, too. It helped that there was a good amount of mystery surrounding Eleanor's lousy home life. It made me hurt for her. The story did run a bit long for my taste toward the middle, making me skim to get to the meat of the story.
What teens might find a bit tough is that the book is set in the 1980s but not advertised ...more
What teens might find a bit tough is that the book is set in the 1980s but not advertised ...more
I really, really wanted to like this book. I guess I'm just not as much of a romantic hipster as I thought. That's not to say that it wasn't well-written, poetic, and accurate depiction of teen romance -- I was certainly getting flashbacks to all of those angsty, goopy feelings of my teen years -- but maybe I'm just a pruned up old lady now.
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May 26, 2015
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The story suffers from the audiobook format. Still great though.
Soo cute.
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