eleanor & park

Author Rainbow Rowell is masterful in her portrayal of young love.  She has a way of making it so immediate to my 50-plus ears.  Especially because a lot of the story happens on a school bus.  Those of us who rode on one can relate.  The clique-i-ness of the back of the bus kids.  The unspoken assigned seats....

Two unlikely young people capable of living outside their odd home lives and forging a relationship....very cool

Blue Moon Promise by Colleen Coble

I just looked back to the last one I read by Colleen and realized that this one has the same problem.  I think it is the covers -- I love them.  They are somehow sooo attractive to me I scoop them up.  She starts strong but kind of fizzles but I did manage to read the whole thing this time.

Fresh Air by Sinclair Lewis

Fresh Air is a travel book written in the 20's in the common vernacular.  It is really cute and a bit of a love story I guess.

T and I were watching Boardwalk Empire on HBO and he noticed Jimmy reading this book while travelling by train to Chicago... of course I had to look for it at the library. They didn't have it but it was a free download for my kindle.  Sweet.

Follow the adventures of Claire driving her father and herself in an imported Gomez-Deperdussin with an American made body.  Yeah almost another language. 

When I mentioned it to my Mom she recognized the author. 

A Cup of Friendship by Deborah Rodriquez

I am just getting into this.  I can barely put it down to write this.  Deborah does an amazing job of setting the scene of a part of the world I have never been to.  But I have been to Turkey, I wonder if her cafe is on a street like this...

Wow, now I have read the whole thing.  It was just too good to put down.  I suspect that it is a pretty good insight into life in Afghanistan.  It fit with my current idea that sometimes people need to figure things out for themselves.  

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt has written this book (in 1996) about his early life as a desperately poor existence in Ireland.  He treats the topic with accuracy and detail.  And a certain acceptance of the way it was.  No whining.  I found it a bit depressing but in the end  I admired his ability to portray a segment of his personal life in a fairly objective way.