I’m just going to talk about these all at once (Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Paper Towns. The Fault in Our Stars. An Abundance of Katherines.), since I read them all in the span of about a week….Let me set the scene. I read “Looking for Alaska” a while ago, and after I read and dug it, I bought the rest of his books for my kindle almost immediately. Of these four, I started with TFiOS. I thought to myself, “It’s about 8pm on a Saturday night, Hubby is hunkered down playing videogames, I might as well start a new book.” This was either the best thing or the worst thing I have ever done. I read TFiOS in one sitting, from 8pm to after 4am. Hubby kept looking over at me when I had a steady stream of tears and snot coming down my face, sniffling loudly (it sounded like this: *snooooorrrrrkkkkkkkkkk*) and blowing my nose with the Chipotle napkins left from dinner since I didn’t want to step out of the story to go get actual tissues. I was a hot mess. A. Hot. Mess. Getting out of bed for Sunday lunch with my parents was not fun for either of us.I haven’t cried like that in a long, long time… since March 15, 2009, actually. It was a real catharsis, one that I didn’t know I needed.I powered through the other three very quickly, and I enjoyed them a lot. I didn’t have as visceral of a reaction to them as I did to TFiOS, but I dug them. All four are highly recommended, but TFiOS most of all… though not on a work or school night… :) Finished "Paper Towns" on two long wintery night reads. Given the genre, 4 stars is the appropriate rating. Enjoyed the levels of interpretation that the title could be taken to. Never really liked Walt Whitman but did gain another understanding of him and the perpetual journey. Clever fooling around with capital letters as a symbol for the many sides of Margo. Liked the mirror-window imagery. Have decided to try another by this author. Onward!
Do You like book The John Green Collection (2013)?
Read the Fault in Our Stars. Great discussion at our book club meeting.
—azzoutapassouta
All of these are absolutely amazing books. God bless John Green
—Hawksflight
The Fault of Our Stars was Amazing!!!!
—monicadahe
