Hey. So it’s nearly 7AM and I haven’t slept because I decided at 3AM to glance at the first page of Eleanor and Park and now my heart is breaking and I blame you. (And John Green and Rainbow Rowell.) It was beautiful and awful and I need to cry but I can’t because my mind gets weird once it realizes I’m pulling an all nighter. So, thanks for that. Jerk. Your tumble name is a lie, you weren’t lying at all about how wonderful Eleanor and Park is.
Getting sucked in and staying up too late to read more of E&P apparently is a thing. It happened to me (I didn’t have your zeal, and ended up spreading it out over two nights, but putting it down and going to sleep that first night was really hard). I’ve seen at least two other fans of the book talk about doing the same thing you did.
I was up kind of late last night finishing my latest re-reading. I think I’ve actually been a little sleep-deprived lately from all the late-night reading and re-reading of the book I’ve been doing. I think it’s cool that there’s a passage in the book that deals with the same thing, when Eleanor is really tired because she’s been staying up late reading Park’s comics.
Anyway, my apologies for contributing to your own lack of sleep. But yeah, John Green and (especially) Rainbow Rowell are the ones who really deserve the blame. I’m happy people are reading the book. It’s so good! Maybe if YA isn’t your thing it won’t come off like great literature; it’s gritty and real, not always soaring and beautiful, prose-wise. But it’s SO real, and the beautiful character moments are so powerful, that I think even someone inclined to dismiss it as “oh, another book about teenagers” could fall in love if they’d only give it a chance.
I’m glad you did. Now get some rest, so you can read it again! :-)
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/46165425286.
