English Books (6): Superficialidades

¡Hola, luner@s!

(Otra vez siento haber desaparecido unos días, intentaré que no vuelva a pasar, sorry >.<).

Hoy os traigo dos libros que llamaron la atención de mi yo más superficial.

El primero se hizo con mi corazoncito por su portada. Sí, lo sé, es lo más sencillo del mundo, pero tiene ese no sé qué que te dice que tienes que leerlo. Después de ver esa portada tan adorable leí la sinopsis y quedó claro que ese libro debe estar en mi estantería (lo que no sé es cuándo...).

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"Bono met his wife in high school," Park says.

"So did Jerry Lee Lewis," Eleanor answers.

"I’m not kidding," he says.

"You should be," she says, "we’re sixteen."

"What about Romeo and Juliet?"

"Shallow, confused, then dead."

''I love you," Park says.

"Wherefore art thou," Eleanor answers.

"I’m not kidding," he says.

"You should be."

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under.

Este segundo libro me llamaba a voces por su título. La portada no me convence nada, y lo más seguro es que ni lo hubiera mirado dos veces si la palabra "Geek" no se hubiera cruzado en el camino de mis ojos. Así que leí la sinopsis y, como en el anterior, llegué a la conclusión de que tenía que tener este libro.

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"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek." Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn't know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her best friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of impossibly handsome model Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves. Veering from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, Harriet begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did. As her old life starts to fall apart, will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything?

¿Los conocíais? ¿Los habéis leído? ¿Queréis leerlos?