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Kate & Eleanor & Park & Bruce
Jun. 30th, 2013 02:09 pmRecently in a YA lit group swap on swap-bot I received a copy of Eleanor & Park. It's a fantastic book (book review to follow soon; I finished it two days ago and ALL THE FEELS. I kind of keep walking over to it and hugging it and not wanting to let go). I recently posted about My Reading Habits and the places I read. I have since made a new entry to this list. Because my cat's health is so instantly changing, I drive home from work at lunchtime every day to entice him to eat more food and I eat as well. I sit on the floor of my living room, leaning back against the couch, with his food on my right, my food on my lap, and a book on my left. I get a few pages read during lunchtime each day and the book I first read this way is Eleanor & Park; its short segments switching between the two main characters and its fast-paced story made this the perfect book to do this with. In fact, I looked forward each day to diving back into their world during lunchtime--a quick, mid-day escape from the hectic pace that is present most days.
On one day, I read the following passage at the end of a chapter:
But the point is that I read this at the end of Chapter 13 and then headed back to work. A few hours later, I went down to update the Career Services' and Registration Manager's computer and right there on the desk, immediately in front of the door when I opened it, was a copy of The Dark Knight Returns. That was kind of amazing. The characters talk about it in my book and then it appears in front of me a few hours later?
Our Director of Accounting came into the room about fifteen minutes later and I told him the story. He said it was strange because he watched a movie just last night with his wife and the trailer before the movie was for The Dark Knight Returns. Whoa.
I went upstairs to tell the person whose desk that belonged to and she actually shares Eleanor's opinion of Batman. Once I pulled the arrow out of my chest, she said I could have the book! Which is fantastic, as that's one of the many Batman stories I haven't read yet. I debated putting Eleanor & Park on hold at that point and reading The Dark Knight Returns as if I were in the story, reading along with the characters. But I ended up just making that my bedtime reading (sorry library book; you're going to have to get renewed again) and continuing to read E&P during lunch.
Funny how the world works, sometimes, isn't it? :-)
On one day, I read the following passage at the end of a chapter:
"And..." she said quickly, "I love the X-Men. But I hate Cyclops."Let me just say first that I side 100% with Park in this discussion (I love Cyclops; one swapper in one of my swaps called him a "one-eyed angst cushion" which is my favorite description of him ever now. And Batman is my favorite superhero because he's a regular human guy who takes it upon himself to make the world better and succeeds... though faces a lot of problems because of it).
He whipped his head back. "You can't hate Cyclops. he's team captain."
"He's boring. he's worse than Batman."
"What? You hate Batman?"
"God. So boring. I can't even make myself read it. Whenever you bring Batman, I catch myself listening to Steve, or staring out the window, wishing I was in hypersleep."
--snip--
"I'm bringing you The Dark Knight Returns," he said.
"What's that?"
"Only the least boring Batman story ever."
"The least boring Batman story ever, huh? Does Batman raise both eyebrows?"
But the point is that I read this at the end of Chapter 13 and then headed back to work. A few hours later, I went down to update the Career Services' and Registration Manager's computer and right there on the desk, immediately in front of the door when I opened it, was a copy of The Dark Knight Returns. That was kind of amazing. The characters talk about it in my book and then it appears in front of me a few hours later?
Our Director of Accounting came into the room about fifteen minutes later and I told him the story. He said it was strange because he watched a movie just last night with his wife and the trailer before the movie was for The Dark Knight Returns. Whoa.
I went upstairs to tell the person whose desk that belonged to and she actually shares Eleanor's opinion of Batman. Once I pulled the arrow out of my chest, she said I could have the book! Which is fantastic, as that's one of the many Batman stories I haven't read yet. I debated putting Eleanor & Park on hold at that point and reading The Dark Knight Returns as if I were in the story, reading along with the characters. But I ended up just making that my bedtime reading (sorry library book; you're going to have to get renewed again) and continuing to read E&P during lunch.
Funny how the world works, sometimes, isn't it? :-)
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