Wednesday 27 July 2011

My Book Boyfriend: Cross Sugarman


It's My Book Boyfriend time! This is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely Missie at The Unread Reader, focusing on fictional boys that we wish were not so fictional. This week I've chosen Cross Sugarman from Prep by Curtis Sittenfield. OK, so he's a D-grade douche, but hey, he's freaking hot.* He's the star basketballer you crush on in high school but never get (except Lee does kinda get him, but they both do stupid things and it all gets kinda awkward). So he's not so much My Book Boyfriend as My Book Boy-I'd-Totally-Bang.

*There's a 90 per cent chance I chose him because to me he looks like Zac Efron, and I wanted to post shirtless pics.

Swoon-worthy Quotes

"The reality of Cross before me was jarring: his tallness, his pale skin and cropped brown hair, his blue eyes, which seemed to contain both intelligence and boredom... Cross Sugarman was the best-looking boy I had ever sat so close to. And this fact was both thrilling and mortifying."

"His hand cupped my shoulder, and there was the slightest pull, a pull toward him. I gave into it. My body fell against his: my leg pressed to his leg, my arm filling the hollow between us, the top of my head just below his collarbone... He touched my hair, first so briefly that it felt accidental; then his fingers raked through and started over again, and every so often, he rubbed the back of my neck with his thumb. My whole body was hot liquid; I felt beholden to him, and painfully happy."

"'I like your bed,' he said. How had this happened? Why was he here? And what if I did something wrong and he left? 'Except,' he added, 'it’s kind of hot. Hang on.' He pushed back the covers, raised his torso as if doing a sit-up, crossed his arms, lifted his sweater and T-shirt over his head, and tossed them away. 'There. Much better.' When he lay back down and pulled up the covers again, relief washed over me - I’d been afraid he was leaving altogether, but now (his shirt was off!) it seemed he was settling in."

"That was when, not unlike the way he had that rainy evening in the taxi three years before, he began to stroke my hair. He set his fingers against the top of my forehead and ran them back, smoothing out my hair against the pillow, then set his fingers against my forehead again. Over and over, back through my hair, the glide of his fingertips - I think that maybe nothing else in my life ever felt that purely, uncomplicatedly good. I couldn’t speak because I was afraid if I did, I might start crying, or he might stop doing it. I shut my eyes. After a long time, he said, 'You have nice hair. It’s really soft.' He ran his knuckles along the line of my jaw, over my lips. 'Are you awake?' 'Sort of,' I murmured. It was an effort to speak. 'Can I kiss you?'"

16 comments:

  1. Okay i have to read this book!
    Those quotes have won me over, even if he seems like a douchbag to start with, i can put up with that in books.
    great post!

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  2. LOL Belle!! haha Book-Boy-I'd-Totally-Bang???Sounds interesting...like an after-hours book boyfriend...of course almost all my book boyfriends I'd want to bang...ahah I'll have to check out Prep to check out Cross in all his douche-baggery

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  3. LMAO! I can see why he is a book boy you would like to bang. And I swear Zac Efron just keeps getting hotter and hotter :)

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  4. Ok I feel like an old creeper thinking Zac is hotalicious..LOL....

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  5. OMGGGGG Zac... OMMGGGG LOL! ::clears throat:: :::sigh::: must. read. now

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  6. Cross Sugarman? Is that his real name? Kind of funny.

    Bangible, hook up, book boys are totally acceptable, especially if they look like Zefron. Yummy! That boy should be banned from wearing shirts. LOL

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  7. Ok. If Cross Sugarman looks like Zac Efron, then I'm seriously going to pick this book up. Nuff said. Great pick!
    -Jess

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  8. I think I just tried to make out with myself after reading that... ;)

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  9. I read this book a while ago and I remember crushing on Cross but thinking he was a jerk at the same time. I guess it's that bad boy thing.

    I agree with Missie that Zac should never wear a shirt!

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  10. Steamy!!! And nice pics of Efron! Whooo!

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  11. OMG! Look at all those shirtless pics!!!!

    What? Were you saying something?

    *stares at pics more*

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  12. Umm...YES YOU CAN FREAKING KISS ME!! Oh, wait, wasn't talking to me *pouts*. I am in love with Zac Efron. Seriously, that smile like melts me into putty. And just for the record I'd totally be into a bangin' that...Cross Sugarman...*prrr*

    Okay, so Zac may be 2 years younger than me, but who cares?! Definitely NOT me! :D Such an amazing post. I keep scrolling back up to check him out, again!

    Jen
    In the Closet With a Bibliophile

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  13. Wow! I'm not a big Efron fan, but damn that boy is hott! Especially when he is shirtless!! I have got to meet Cross.... Those quotes are magical, *sigh*! Kiss me now!

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  14. eeewwww Cross Sugarman WAS a D-grade douche! I can't think of him and not think of that mortifying fish/cheese list.

    But those Zac Efron pictures are helping. :)

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  15. I don't know what's this book about, but if there are hot boys in it, I have to check it out :)
    Also I'm not a fan of Zac Efron, but damn, he looks good :))

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  16. I never thought he looks like Zac...Cross is way taller, pale skinned (really white) and has shorter hair...Saying that he looks like Zac it's kinda underrating to me. Cross is...specific and beautifully hot, no so mainstream like Zac, some kido who got muscles and looks like 15 year-old boy bend member. Cross is...deeper.

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