#rainbow powell

[crystalline-cosmos]

I've long thought of myself as a gay gnc boy-witch with a classic vampire aesthetic. It has recently come to my attention that I am apparently Tyrannus Basilton Grimm-Pitch as a real person.

Now what does it mean if I'm also wildly attracted to him lmao ....

[gregtorpeda]

Shannon Purser would be the perfect actress to play Eleanor from Eleanor and Park

Just a thought 😊

[jenni41]

I am reading Fangirl and I want to shake the main character.

I am so glad I never became a popular fan fiction writer.

[alimikiniki]

kind of hate this but ehhhhhhh

guess what book i finished (hint: it was Carry On by Rainbow Rowell) (very good, nice gay, would recommend)

[a-tardis-mouse-blog]

I’m only about 40 pages in, and I am already loving it! I’ve been meaning to pick this up for ages, and I am so glad that I finally did. So far it feels VERY similar to Harry Potter, but that is not bothering me so far. 

[emmaway97-blog]

“If Eleanor were the hero of some book, like THE BOXCAR CHILDREN or something, she’d try. If she were Dicey Tillerman, she’d find a way.

She’d be brave and noble, and she’d find a way.

But she wasn’t. Eleanor wasn’t any of those things. She was just trying to get through the night.”

GOOOSH why am i such a huge crier? And NO u can’t fucking blame hormones for that too.

The reason I’m crying is that, this book was different, the romance was different, that cool kinda romance, mashy sam7ini’s romance…. me who thought that I was immune to these YA romance novels, I didn’t even think I’d be caught up this much with the story,  I never thought I’d end up crying after reading a contemporary YA romance.

And gosh should we discuss that ending? Rainbow did u have to make me cry AGAIN?!!!!

This was by the way the second book I read by Rainbow, and I was obsessed with this one too, as mush I was with the first one “Fangirl”, I think I liked this one better, it was more dramatic, pointing and catchy. It had all the ingredients: Innocent relationship, established on good music, comics, great movies, trust… it was not dirty, or manipulative, not even sickening or immoral.

And with every single word, every single event I thought my heart would burst in flames. I was actually staling so I wouldn’t  finish it in no time like I usually do with good books.

Just go read it, I can’t think of a proper review. I’ll just put on The Smiths and  cry here in the corner.

[rossareads]

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (SPOILERFREE)

I've just finished reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Kindle had it on a special discount at about 2€. Yeah, I know. I am, like, arriving two years later with a starbucks. At least now I've finally understood why it resonated so much on the web, why tumblr obsessed over it for months.

It isn't because the plot is awe-inducing or full of innovating plot-twist. Hell, there's even a love triangle - albeit a well done one. Tho that was so well handled that you can't even begin to phantom my utter relief. Even though it could be argued it was a bit "ahahah no see she isn't a bad person, I swear! Why? Oh,uhm, see, BECAUSE THIS WHAT HAPPENED!", but there was a bit of foreshadowing for it so it's not something to be upset by.

It isn't because the characters are oh-so-fresh and never seen before. Let's be onest: the whole of it is full of trite topoi of a coming of age story set in an American collage with a romance story slappes in it for our heroine who isn't your regular collagegirlTM, because she is Different. We know them all, hate to love 'em, etc etc.

BUT the book in its whole feels fresh. You can still see some plot-twists coming a mile away, but that didn't stop me from bingereading it -usually a good sign I am loving the book.So that left me wondering a bit as of why I liked it even if it has tons of stuff I usually don't like in a book. Then it hit me.

Sometime ago here on tumblr I read a post - I hope I can find it again to link it here - about how fanfiction has a language of its own when it comes to express feelings and emotions. It basically advocated how fanfiction uses a more vibrant palette to describe romance and why it isn't what you're used to see in your avarage book.

That's why it felt so fresh and why tumblr flipped shit, in a good way, over it. We know that palette, we love and yearn for romantic and interpersonal relationships described that way. It wasn't perfect and when neatpicking at it there are flaws to be found, but it doesn't deterred the impact it had (has?) on the younger side of the reading community. And on myself, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Even more than that: this is a YA book written by an adult woman and it doesn't feel stiff. Often, when adult women and -don't let me get started on the- men write for a younger public, the wording of the phrases, the slang, it feels stiff. Mostly because they do not know it.

Powell knows the jargon, she knows the context it's used in, she knows the quirks and turn of phrases because she is one of us. I swear the only thing that made me look up the age of the author was the use of the word "squick", which I know is old fandomspeak for "something that makes me personally cringe". And it's a word we should revive because the word has magnificent potential in usage, because it hasn't an inherent bad meaning like "trigger warning".

Since it's a spoilerfree post I won't talk in detail about the way characters interact with each other if not to say I loved it. Their interactions are coherent with each character's personality and the clashes they experience aren't only for the sole purpose of making something happen in a character driven plot.

Ps: I am not from USA nor English is my native tongue. Therefore, maybe there are some aspect about the collageexperienceTM I didn't get. Or the whole thing about the jargon being current, maybe I got that wrong too, but I consider myself fluent enough to be almost 100% certain about it.

[deeksha512]

"Eleanor and Park" a cheesy novel I really loved

Okay, normally I don’t like young adult novels or the ‘lovey’ love stories per se, but Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Powell was really a great piece to read. I completed the entire novel in a single train journey of 23 hrs+ I started another novel too in the same journey. What I am trying to say it the novel was a great page turner romance. Also, there was a great part of the novel in which the characters are actually connected due to their mutual love for music and comics, so why not!? So here are some lines I adored from the novel: ~He was still holding the end of her scarf, rubbing the silk idly between his thumb and fingers. She watched his hand. He didn’t look up. He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated~ ~Park made drum noises with his mouth: “Ch-ch-ch, ch-ch-ch.” “I just want to break that song into pieces,” she said, “and love them all to death~ ~Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn’t recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn’t recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor’s hand, he recognized her. He knew.~ ~He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.~ ~“I don’t like you, Park,” she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. “I…”—her voice nearly disappeared—“think I live for you.~ ~“Yes,” he said. “I want everyone to meet you. You’re my favorite person of all time.” He kept making her feel like it was safe~ ~Don’t bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It’s disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses ’m sorry about yesterday,” she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. “Yesterday happens.” God, it was like he wanted her to eat his face clean off.~ ~Eleanor was right: She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something~ ~He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different—because she wasn’t afraid to be. (Or maybe she was just more afraid of being like everyone else.) There was something really exciting about that. He liked being near that, that kind of brave and crazy~