{"id":27548,"date":"2016-03-22T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=27548"},"modified":"2016-03-04T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T22:11:50","slug":"eleanor-and-park-by-rainbow-rowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/eleanor-and-park-by-rainbow-rowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor and Park<\/I> by Rainbow Rowell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"eleanor<\/a>Have you ever read a book that immediately piqued your interest? One that you just couldn’t put down? My latest\u00a0“must finish quickly” book was\u00a0Eleanor & Park<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,<\/a> and what\u00a0hooked me, besides the\u00a0immediately engaging\u00a0story line, was that I listened to it\u00a0as an\u00a0audiobook and was therefore able to listen to it while I was doing other things.\u00a0(The version I listened to was through OverDrive<\/a>, but this title\u00a0is also available as a print book<\/a> and a book on cd<\/a> – same narrators too!)<\/p>\n

Eleanor & Park<\/a> <\/em>tells the story\u00a0of the two title characters: Eleanor, a red-haired chubby high school student starting at a new school, who runs into Park, a kid right on the cusp of the cool crowd, but not firmly implanted there. Eleanor feels like she doesn’t belong anywhere, especially at\u00a0her\u00a0new school\u00a0or at home.\u00a0and Park feels like she doesn’t belong at their school either. Despite himself, Park finds himself falling for Eleanor, a situation that she has trouble with since she can’t possibly believe or see why this perfect Asian boy with the perfect family would ever fall for a mess like her, living with her mother, abusive step-father, and four siblings in a tiny house. This book is set over the course of one school year in 1986 with readers\u00a0getting an intense look into\u00a0Eleanor and Park’s budding relationship and daily lives\u00a0as they struggle with trying to fit in and\u00a0the strange sweetness and intense hold\u00a0that first love\u00a0has on them.\u00a0This book pulled at my heart strings, making me pull for Eleanor and Park to beat the odds.<\/p>\n

What really hooked me about this book was the narrators. Their voices perfectly matched the characters that I envisioned in my head with earnest emotion shining through both voices. Their inflections as\u00a0both narrators\u00a0mimicked the different people in both Eleanor and Park’s lives had me present, immediately in the story with them: sitting on the top bunk in Eleanor’s room while she read the comic books and listened to the tapes that Park gave her, and watching Park as he only asked for batteries for Christmas, so he could continue to give Eleanor music to listen to. I couldn’t get enough and finished this audiobook in two days. Check this book out, either in print or audio, and let me know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever read a book that immediately piqued your interest? One that you just couldn’t put down? My latest\u00a0“must finish quickly” book was\u00a0Eleanor & Park, and what\u00a0hooked me, besides the\u00a0immediately engaging\u00a0story line, was that I listened to it\u00a0as an\u00a0audiobook and was therefore able to listen to it while I[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,5,1,8],"tags":[3446,360,3447,155,1872,248,3445,552,3444,847],"class_list":["post-27548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-abuse","tag-audiobook","tag-different-races","tag-family","tag-first-love","tag-love","tag-overdrive","tag-poverty","tag-print-book","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7ak","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27548"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27548\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}