UPDATE: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

So back in January we first got wind of Eleanor & Park via NPR and became excited....it was a WOW.

NOW, this weekend, I was browsing John Green's blog, and saw this post:

"I reviewed the extraordinary new novel ELEANOR AND PARK in the New York Times Book Review

If you read a lot, you can get jaded. You can forget how a reader has to be generous to a book as much as a book has to be generous to its reader. You feel like maybe everything worth doing has been done, and nothing will ever blow you away ever again.

And then you read a book like Eleanor and Park, and you are shocked out of your complacency and grateful to be alive. As you can tell from my review in the New York Times Book Review, I really love this book. Months later, I’m still thinking about it.

You’re gonna love it, too. Read it. "

John Green loved it.  Remember when recommended the Book Thief and we all laughed, cried and wanted to hug it ( the book, we wanted to hug an inanimate object).  But what really sealed the deal for me? This quote from John's Review.

On the importance of Hand Holding:

"The hand-holding, by the way, is intense. “Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat.” Evocative sensual descriptions are everywhere in this novel, but they always feel true to the characters."