Adamas Lacrimae

two misfits, one extraordinary love eleanor ...Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough....Eleanor park ...He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park  Those are the sentences on the back of this novel. This novel is written by Rainbow Rowell, by the way. You can visit her website here .  This is a story about a girl named Eleanor Douglas and a boy named Park Sheridan, obviously. Eleanor is a fat American girl, though I don't know how fat. I imagined her just like a fatter version  of Merida from the movie Brave, because, well, she (Eleanor, not Merida) described as "Betty Boop drawn with a heavy hand" and she also had "bright red, on top of ...

Waktu SMA aku sekelas sama seorang cewek bernama Riel. Dia ini jago bahasa inggris dan mencintai bahasa inggris, seperti aku. Maka ketika ada ulangan bahasa inggris, kami pun bertaruh. Siapa yang mendapatkan nilai yang lebih tinggi harus memberikan hadiah kepada yang lain. Well, aku menang. Riel anak yang baik dan menyenangkan, dia memenuhi janjinya tanpa merasa terbeban. Katanya, sekalian kenang-kenangan sebelum Aii pindah. Dia tau aku suka sekali membaca. Dan dia pun tau aku suka sekali cover buku Refrain. Tak lama, aku memiliki buku Refrain...dari Riel. Di cover depan buku itu tertempel sebuah amplop biru, amplop sungguhan yang bertuliskan judul buku "Refrain, Saat Cinta Selalu Pulang" dan berisikan sebuah surat pendek : "It's always been you...". Sebuah cover yang menyenangkan untuk orang yang menyukai detil remeh sepertiku. Di cover belakang buku itu tertulis dalam tinta biru : "Tidak ada persahabatan yang sempurna di dunia ini, yang ada hanya orang...