Eleanor & Park

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Amazing! This love story is all about reality. Not about rainbows and butterflies, but just two teenagers trying to survive the waves.

Sice jsem od této knížky měla vyšší očekávání, ale i tak jsem si její čtení užila. Líbila se mi komplikovaná rodina Eleanor, líbilo se mi, že je byla jiná, než většina holek, než většina hlavních hrdinek coming-of-age knih. Eleanor a její tvář posetou pihami, její vytahané džíny a pánské košile si budu pamatovat asi ještě hodně dlouho. Park už pro mě nebyl tak zajímavý, ale i přesto mi byl sympatický. Obě postavy jsem měla svým způsobem ráda a fandila jsem jim, ale i přes to všechno mi v srdci nenechali nějakou větší stopu. Jejich příběh ve mně nezpůsobil žádné větší emoce, žádný smutek nebo neskutečnou radost. Kdyby nebylo konce knihy, bohužel musím přiznat, že bych celý příběh hodnotila ještě hůř. Konec knihy to naštěstí zpestřil, ukázal nám, že existují tisíce verzí konce, a že ne vždy musí být jen konec šťastný. A za to jsem ráda, toho si na příběhu cením. ✩ 3,5*/5* Lepší průměr, stojí za přečtení, ale nečekejte nic přelomového.

ugh this book was perfect. but that ending :(

This book was okay but I still felt ish-ish about it. The writing, there are times I felt that it was a bit sloppy. Whenever I read a book, and I hope I'm not the only reader here, where the plot could be good, but the characters are better, from the start of that book till the last page, there's a character development. With this book, I didn't see any of that. There are moments where I did laugh. I absolutely loved Parks' parents, especially his mum. I hated Eleanor's mum and the stepdad so much, honestly. How Eleanor and Park ended, I'm not really sure I liked how it ended.

3.5 stars

This hasn’t aged well and maybe if I read it as a teenager, I would’ve enjoyed it?

The Feels, the feels, the feels!!! I read this, and not only do I understand WHY it got so much hype on booktube, but I think the Hype is well-deserved. Looking to read another book by Rainbow Rowell. (Probably Fangirl, as Attachments doesn't really sound like my kind of book)

reminds me of line from betty by taylor swift, “i’m only seventeen, i don’t know anything but i know i missed you.”

this book is just so off my godddd

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If we ignore the fact Park being Asian is mentioned every 5 seconds for god knows what reason, and the Star Wars dirty talk which had me irking, this was a nice book! I had fun with it, the relationship was very wholesome and well built but I felt like this was very slice of life and very small scale, and when the drama came in the last like 30 pages I felt like the reasoning for said drama wasn’t explored enough throughout the book. It was still sad of course but yeah. All in all I liked it just not a romance that made much impact on me but they’re cute!

** spoiler alert ** This book is one of kind young adult novel about two misfits living in the suburbs of Nebraska ,USA in the 80's. The double narratives from Eleanor and Park as well on how they bond over mixtapes , comics frame a love story. #2021

I don't know about anyone else, but my to-be-read pile is getting a little out of control. REALLY out of control. So I promised myself recently 'no new books!' and then put all my unread books into the order I'd read them. It seemed like a good plan. I'd stay away from book stores and try to get excited about all the amazing books I had left to read. Then this book happened. And let me tell you, this book wasn't on my to-be-read pile. It wasn't anywhere near it. I'd only barely just heard of it. But then, one day a few weeks ago, through a string of (not so) unfortunate events, I ended up stranded at my local Barnes and Noble for two hours, waiting for my brother to get off work. I figured I'd pick up a random book, read a few pages for the time being, and if I liked it enough I could come back and buy it later. I'd already made a promise to not buy books but that didn't mean I couldn't look around, right? I mean, what else is there to do to pass the time in a BOOK STORE? It'd be stupid NOT to read. I looked around for a bit, and lucky me, picked up this lovely novel. I'd read the sample on my kindle a while back and thought I'd see what else it had to offer. Uh oh. As soon as I got about 50 pages in, I was hooked. The two hours flew by and next thing I know, I'm telling my brother to wait 5 minutes so I can finish 'this one chapter' and then buy the book. I broke my promise to myself. But hey, some promises are meant to be broken, right? Or is that about rules? Oh, whatever. My point is, this book is ridiculously amazing. I couldn't get enough of it. Of the characters, of the love story. It just felt so REAL to me. The musical reference were AMAZING. And the timeline of the romance was perfect. Nothing felt rushed or fabricated. Eleanor and Park's relationship was so raw and honest, adorable and intense. All the characters were perfectly constructed, and I felt like I knew all of them even if they only showed up a few times. The story is just incredibly beautiful and I'm so glad I randomly decided to pick it up. On the back of the book there's a review from Publishers Weekly that states: "Rowell keeps things surprising, and the solution maintains the novel's delicate balance of light and dark." That's such a great way to describe this book. It's light and romantic and funny, but it deals with some heavy stuff. And you may think this back-and-forth switching would cause whiplash but it's SO well done. I didn't even notice it. And there are some surprises in this book, especially with the ending. The ending kind of leaves you hanging but personally, I loved it. It leaves the reader up to decide. I also loved the switching POV's. I never once felt like I missed anything, or got bored of one POV. It was natural. Overall, I know this book will be one I always remember. So quit reading this and go buy it. You can thank me later ;D

"you can't go wrong with cliché stories" is definitely not something I'd say for this. The story felt underdeveloped and written for the sake of your typical teenage romance. Whilst I'm not denying my love for your average boy meets girl romances, this felt underwhelming... lackluster I should say. I felt sympathy towards Eleanor as a character, but even so, both Park and her were too unrealistic to make the overall story interesting. I enjoyed Rowell's other novel, Fangirl. But this, unfortunately, was not worth the read.

This book is just heartbreaking.

I heard this book when I was 15 or 16, and the reviews were overwhelmingly good. There is one quotes I remember in the back of my head, which says: "Eleanor was right: She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something." I lived with that quote for, like, a decade. Whenever I see something, when I am strolling around the neighborhood, listening to what we refer to as Tumblr music, this quote just pops out of my head. That's my calling to finally get and read this book. The first time I read the novel, my expectations were high remembering how that one particular quote from the book literally and basically made everyone kicking their feet in the air. The first few chapters were boring. Park was mean as hell, Eleanor was basically, or at least tried to, never cared about anything nor anyone. I get that this story revolved around 16-year-olds with unstable emotions. For me, Eleanor was insecure. Had my 15-year-old self read this, I think my reaction would have been the same as other people's. But today I am 23 and have learned to be gentler to myself. Then, Park changed. He had become less cold interacting with Eleanor, and turned out that Eleanor was more welcoming than myself would have been. "Beautiful. Breathaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god. Until pages 200-something, it felt like they were one against the world, like nothing could stop them. That's where everything fell apart. At first, I thought Eleanor was dead, like they'd have Clay and Hannah Baker's story in 13th Reasons Why. Thank god she didn't. Her life was just miserable, and they were only 16. What do 16 year-olds understand about how this world works fully?

Cute, but hollow. There were scenes and snippets I liked, but the ending seemed rushed and the overall story seemed contrived. More of a brain-candy book, doesn’t leave much to be analyzed.

I hate this book so bad. The author is good at writing, I can tell. She can but why did she have to write like this? This book is frustrating that I want to cry. And the plot does not even make any sense, she wrote this book like an unfinished wattpad story, a draft even. I can't believe I chose this book because of the cute book cover :*(

I loved how real it all felt. It was all well-written and the plot well-formed. One of the best books about puppy-love to ever grace the world of literature, alongside Flipped. Perfection.

★★ // filed under everyone-liked-but-me.

read this one

P E R F E C T! I love this book with my entire life, I can't put in words how make me feel, so many memories of my first love and the end.. OMG THE END I cry like 3 days.