I read Will Grayson, Will Grayson on a road trip with my husband, who asked what the book I was reading was about. I told him, and he responded with “Are you bullsh!tting me? Cause I’m not able to tell…” Honestly, saying the plot of Will Grayson, Will Grayson out loud really does ridiculous. Will Grayson #1 is your average high school student who alienates his group of friends when he publicly supports his gay friend, Tiny’s, right to play on the football team. Tiny […]
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
This probably the best John Green book I’ve read that didn’t feature a delightful young man named Augustus. Will Grayson, Will Grayson stars, you guessed it, two kids named Will Grayson. WG #1 has a best friend named Tiny (who’s an enormous, black and gay, because it’s a John Green book and he really does like to mix things up) who constantly overshadows him. Will’s theory in life is to stay un-involved from things that might hurt him, so he avoids girls and conflict and all […]
This Star Won’t Go Out
It’s difficult to think critically about a book like This Star Won’t Go Out, because it was clearly put together with lots of love by the grieving friends and family of a charming, precocious, and kind sixteen-year-old girl who died from complications with thyroid cancer. So instead I’ll try to give you an idea what it’s like. The book revolves around Ester Earl, who was about as lovely as any fictional book heroine you could imagine. She was funny, thoughtful, self-depricating, creative, kind, friendly, uncomplaining, […]
pAper TownS
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman discovered a dead body when they were nine, after that last adventure their friendship fizzled and Q was reduced to worshiping Margo from afar. A month before high school graduation Margo cracks open a window and (literally) climbs back into his life for a night of revenge. The next day Margo isn’t at school, she has run away before and always left clues- this time […]
looking for alaska
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” I have a John Green problem. Actually, badkittyuno and I have a John Green problem. Green is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors considering I hadn’t heard of him prior to this year. I think I liked Alaska as much as I did because I read it after the distinctly disappointing An Abundance of Katherine’s. Miles is leaving home for boarding school to escape the bullies and his lack of friends. At Culver […]
Paper Towns by John Green
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” Second best John Green book so far, and one of the best books I’ve read this year. Considering that it’s only April, John Green has forced me to set my standards high. That rocks. Like in many of his other novels, Paper Towns is about a boy (Quentin Jacobsen) who loves a girl (Margo Roth Spiegelman–what a name). What I LOVED about this one, is that as the book goes on, Quentin realizes […]
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