Book Review #2

                                                   Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
                                                      
       Deep breath in... now let it out slowly. One more time. Okay, just once more. Alright, I'm okay. No, no, not okay. Back to deep breaths.

                                That was my reaction to the end of the book.

            Now, this is a spoiler free zone, so your only hint is: *sniff sniff* It's over?
       Eleanor and Park was a YA realistic fiction love story based in 1986. It's the story that's been told a thousand times. The caption is literally "Two misfits. One extraordinary love." But I can promise you that the word cliché will be miles away from your brain.
  
        The novel is dual POV between Park and Eleanor, focusing on their home lives and then their each-other lives. Eleanor has a 'unique' style and a really bad home life, she just moved into her mom's house and started a new school. Guess who she ends up sitting with on the bus? Park is a very normal guy. He's half-Asian and has friends and normal home problems. They basically fall in love by sharing comic books, then words, and eventually, through music.
       
       The book is written fairly well and very artistically. There are parts in the book written beautifully where the characters describe each other and their surroundings. The POV switch does not happen by chapters, they happen whenever the writer found it necessary. Sometimes there were up to four point of view switches on one page. But it was really well done.
      
         The love story was believable and had depth, which is not always the case in YA fiction. When you're reading it you fall in love with the characters and with their stories. I binge read this one. Stayed up until one in the morning to finish it and then couldn't believe it was over when it ended. It wasn't that it was a bad ending, or ended abruptly, or even that I didn't enjoy the ending. I simply just didn't want the story to be over. It's another one of those sticky stories. And its totally on my must read list for everyone. If you like YA novels I can almost guarantee you will love it.

 My Rating: 4 1/2 /5

(four and a half out of five)

-Sarah Elisabeth          

                       Henway hetay orldway tpssay pinningsay... E'erway tillsay eadingray.
                            (English Translation:When the world stops spinning... We're still reading.)                                            



          



Book Review #1

                                                   
                                                 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

       This is one of my favorite books and is my absolute favorite classic. Ever. Period. Best one. Based in a small southern town in Alabama during 1935, this book covers courage, equality, and just doing the right thing in 324 pages of complete genius. Now, I am not really a classics kind of person. I tend to stick with the YA genres and generally find classics--I'm just going to say it--boring. So it's pretty big for me to completely love this book as much as I do. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who is not usually a classic-reader. 
     
      The biggest thing about the book is that it pretty much leaves me speechless. I don't have any complaints about the book. I mean, even when it was slow, it was written so well it didn't matter. My absolute favorite thing about the book was its unique point of view. The narrator is a 9 year old girl. So think: if your dad was a lawyer and you were a little girl who only understood a little over half of what was going on and no one was treating each other nicely, what would you be thinking about? That was this whole book. Questioning things, coming to wrong conclusions, coming to conclusions no adult would thing of, and just wanting to do what you wanted to do right then.

      It's not one of those books you can't put down; it's one of those books you have to put down just to absorb. Then you finish it and you have to take a deep breath and let it out really slowly. The next day you'll be thinking about it. And the next day. And the one after that. And the year after that. It's the kind of book that just clings to your brain.

                                                                My Rating: 5/5
                                 (Keep in mind that I almost never rate books that highly!)

                            -Sarah Elisabeth          

 

                      

                        Enwhay ethay orldway opsstay inningspay... E'reway illstay eadingray. 

                               (English: When the world stops spinning... We're still reading.)



                             

             

                                                              This is a book blog.

        A blog about books that I have loved, books that I have hated, books you have to read, books I hope you never have to suffer through; it is simply a blog about books.
                                                               I am a bookworm,

                                                                    bookaholic,

                                                                    bibliophile,

                                                                 lover-of-books,

                whatever you would like to call me that has to do with reading a lot, that's me.

                                          I eat and I sleep and I breathe and I read.

And I have opinions. This fancy-shmancy little blog is all about my opinions on the books I read.

And I also write. Poems and stories, books and letters, so be prepared to see a writer point of view as well as a reader point of view. I may even post a few things.

                                                                        So again,

     prepare yourself for the onslaught of the utmost awesomeness of a wordy-person.

 

 

-Sarah Elisabeth              

 

                         Enwhay ethay orldway opsstay inningspay... E'reway illstay eadingray.  

                      (English Translation: When the world stops spinning... We're still reading.)