I want everyone to read you, Eleanor & Park! I have so spoiled myself over the past few weeks, reading brilliant wordsmiths like Rainbow Rowell and Laini Taylor whose emotive descriptions are devastatingly apt. This book is ADORABLE. It seems like almost everyone I knew in high school fell in love exactly like this; teenagers have a way of each feeling uniquely disenfranchised, and meeting someone else who complements your weird and loneliness feels like finally the universe has done you a solid. Eleanor and […]
“To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
To me, this book was perfect. Between Rowell’s flawless turns of phrase, her on-point descriptions of adapting to college, and her loving nods to fandom, I tore through this novel and loved every moment. The premise is this: Cath and her identical twin sister Wren had been, for most of their lives, mega-fans of the Simon Snow series (a Harry Potter analog.) Both were avid fanfiction writers and consumers, and they were also involved with cosplay, creating and sharing fanart, the works. Upon entering college, […]
“‘I just want to break that song into pieces,’ she said, ‘and love them all to death.'”
Eleanor & Park is a book that’s been rightfully reviewed on this site before. It’s a book about first love, first heartbreak, family, and the people that you find that make everything better. I’ve actually read this book before, when it first came out, but last week a friend of mine read it for the first time and I was inspired to read through it again. Fair warning, if you haven’t yet read it (and you should!), there will be spoilers about the ending ahead. […]
You’ve Got (A Cute Guy Reading Your) Mail
Lincoln O’Neill is stuck, in more ways than one. He’s living at home with his mother, having recently finished another of his many degrees and not quite ready to strike out on his own. He’s haunted by memories of his one true love, Sam, the girl who broke his heart in college. He’s also feeling bound by his job. It was supposed to be “internet security” for the local newspaper – protecting the company’s computers from hackers, for example – but instead, he sits all […]