Eleanor and Park -- Thanks, Jenn.

[vnfan]

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You know how sometimes you run across an author and a book that just captures exactly how you would have always described something if only you'd been able to gather your thoughts into words? Here is Rainbow Rowell's description of how you feel like after holding hands for the first time, and with Exactly The Right Boy:

All through first and

Comments

[willow_wand]

I thought of you immediately when I read Eleanor and Park. Like if your soulmate could be a book, it would be this one. Mostly it was the music. I think of you when I hear those songs.

I also really liked Rainbow's book Attachments, which is not YA, but also not horribly bleak and depressing like some books for grown ups. (She's also a super cool person. I have to try really hard not to come off as a scary creeper of a fangirl on Twitter, but I just adore her so much. She's so freaking nice.)

Justina Chen's books are great. I read Return to Me a few months ago for Teen Lit Rocks, and I really enjoyed it. :)

[vnfan]

I'm following her Tumblr now.

I was really sucked in to the part where Eleanor is trying to get Park to see the sexism in the comics. The passive powers, the outfits, etc. I had an almost identical convo with my ex. I was trying to get him to see the sexism in the whole "boob window" of the costumes, the always flowing hair, that almost all of their powers were self-defensive rather than attack oriented. It was like I was trying to destroy his youth!!