Birthday Book Haul

It's that time again... another book haul, however these are gifts I received on my birthday, which was at the end of October.

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Scandal by Sarah Ockler

Saga: Volume One by Brian K. Vaughn

Cress by Marissa Meyer

Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

These books were top priority on my wish list, so I was really excited when I opened them up! I've already read Saga: Volume One which is actually the first graphic novel I have ever read, though I'm really looking forward to read the other volumes because it ended on one helluva cliffhanger! Anyway it looks like I have a lot of reading to do before the end of the year because I can expect I'll be getting some more for Christmas!

DREAMWORKS SECURES THE FILM RIGHTS FOR ELEANOR & PARK

It's a splendid day for Rainbow Rowell fans as Entertainment Weekly exclusively revealed today that DreamWorks have picked up the film rights for Eleanor & Park and that Rainbow Rowell herself will be penning the screenplay.

“Every girl who has read it says, ‘That was me in high school, or that was me in 7th grade,’” Holly Bario, DreamWorks president of production, tells EW. “It reminded all of us of our own sort of awkwardness, or family dysfunction.”

“The book is uniquely structured in that one chapter is told by Eleanor and one chapter is told from Park’s perspective, and they alternate,” Bario points out. “So we’re trying to figure out how to do that in a movie. There are all storts of groovy stylistic things you could do with voice over, or words on the screen, but we want something that’s realRainbow.”

Eleanor & Park is set in 1986, and following one school year in Omaha, the novel follows the tentative romance of two 16-year-olds: Eleanor, a somewhat heavy girl overwhelmed by insecurities and trying to survive an abusive household, and Park, the quiet, half-Korean kid who also doesn’t feel like he fits in, but finds refuge in music and comic books.