I have now started reading the book Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. So far it's pretty good! It's so much better than my previous book and so far it's doing a good job of keeping me engaged! What I know about Park is a bit fuzzy right now. But what I do know is that he is very smart, in all honors classes and is also very paranoid and overthinks a lot of things. He seems to be stressed quite often and I hope Eleanor helps change that. What I know about Eleanor is also a bit fuzzy. She just moved to this new school and is in all honor classes, but she's failed at them at her old school, even though her mother persists. She seems to be hopeless, but free spirited. She moved to this place because of a reason that I don't know of. In the book it states that Eleanor's stepfather had kicked her out of the house. I don't know why and I don't know where she had been living before that, but I know that he is a bad man and I think he abuses all of his family members in one way or another. She only had a cardboard box full of things her mother had brought from the old house.
I think that what the future holds for this book is not good. Though the mood of this book right now is kind of laid back, I have a feeling it will become tense and things will start to take a downward plunge and something tells me it will have to do with Eleanor's step father. But that will not be for a while, so for now I am enjoying the book. So far what has happened is that Eleanor and Park ride the same bus and Eleanor has to sit with him because there are no open seats. he is incredibly embarrassed because she wears horrendous outfits and new people are always the laughing stock of the school. I think Park is starting to become fascinated with her, but doesn't want to see it for himself and is kind of in denial. His thoughts about her keep coming into the book. He will say something nice about her and then make it negative because he doesn't want to like her.
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