Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
So John Green does this thing that feels a little weird, and I think it happens in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and other YA books — oh, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and it’s a thing I feel like a lot of parents of my age do as well, and I know that at times I am guilty of this as a teacher too. And that’s to try to be the voice in an adolescent’s life to offer up this moment of […]
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Bingo Square: Banned Books There are a few categories on the Bingo board that have looked slightly more homework like to me than others, and I had the feeling Banned Books was going to be one of them. Fortunately for me, the Top Ten Most Challenged lists of books contain quite a few modern YA novels because of course teachers would want to include current novels to appeal to their students. I had already read a few of them, and some of the choices were […]
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
How is it that a middle-aged man is able to express the inner workings of an anxious teenage girl so well? The only writing I know is to “write what you know”, so it always blows me away when authors are able to so skilfully step into the shoes of the unfamiliar. In “Turtles All The Way Down”, John Green has captured my heart again. Reading this novel is like stepping into a time machine: when your Mom is like a loving but frustrating alien, […]
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
I’ve read a lot of YA the last few weeks and constantly found myself comparing them to the YA master, John Green, so the natural next step was to reread some Green’s books. I really enjoyed Turtles All the Way Down when I read it the first go around during CBR9. Back in 2017 John Green hadn’t published anything in over five years so perhaps in my hunger for new J.G. YA I was not as critical as I could have been and posted an effusive […]
Aza Holmes doesn’t have a lot of friends, and her best friend Daisy, a gregarious and outgoing fan fiction writer, sometimes finds her a bit exhausting. This is not surprising, as Aza struggles with anxiety and OCD. When local billionaire Russell Davis Picket goes missing and there is a reward offered for news of his whereabouts, Daisy remembers that Aza knows his son. Daisy orchestrates a scenario so that Aza can reconnect with Davis, who she hasn’t seen for a few years. Aza and Davis […]
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/08/27/episode-1-31-just-the-beasts-under-your-bed-in-your-closet-in-your-head/ Wherein I review: 119. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker 120. Serpentine (Anita Blake #26) by Laurell K. Hamilton 121. The Sellout by Paul Beatty 122. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green 123. Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet 124. Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 125. The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp Helene Wecker gives us a historical love story between two servant myths. Laurell K. Hamilton comes back and sets Anita Blake against […]
