alindstadtcorbeax
Gah I need to think on this.
I really loved basically all of it. I just don’t do bittersweet all that well, I guess.
Killer “Soundtrack” though. Rainbow Rowell & I really have freakishly similar music tastes.
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'Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love, but what it's like to be young and in love with a book' John Green, author of The Fault in our Stars
Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.
Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and - in Eleanor's eyes - impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by.
Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall in love. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're 16, and you have nothing and everything to lose.
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is funny, sad, shocking and true - an exquisite nostalgia trip for anyone who has never forgotten their first love.
Eleanor
Park was just her height, but he seemed taller.
Park
Eleanor's eyelashes were the same color as her freckles.
Thinking about going out with Park, in public, was kind of like thinking about taking your helmet off in space.
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself.
Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin.
“It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.”