What a touching ending. I read the last seven or so pages at work in the break room and I couldn't cry, otherwise I might have. My throat was all tight. I didn't like some of the thoughts and ideas about life and how to live, but I could understand it and I enjoyed the book overall.
Here's a bit of the story: A seventeen-year-old girl named Mia who gets in a car accident with her father driving and her mom in the passenger seat. Mia's brother Teddy is beside her in the car. Mia is seriously injured and in a comma, but she can see and hear everyone and walk around and view her body and all the people trying to save her life. Mia recounts episodes in her life and ends up having to make a decision of if she should die or stay on earth with her body. She gets to see everyone talking about her and hear what they think.
Mia's boyfriend Adam is one of the most important people in her life along with her mother, father, brother and friend Kim. I didn't like some of the language and ideas.
I would give this book an 8 1/2/10.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Paper Towns by John Green
This was a well-written book. I get a little bit irritated when people use classical literature or mythology in their writing and John Green used the former. I just feel like it's cheating. You're not actually using your story-telling skills, your trying to show how well-read you are, or you're using someone else to leverage your writing because you can't do it on your own. I guess society is so pervasive that it may be difficult to avoid doing this, but then I guess it will usually bother me then. I also don't really enjoy Walt Witman.
This boy called Quentin who is around seventeen and in his last year of school before he goes to university has a crush on a girl named Margo who goes missing and throughout the book he tries to find her. I think there's self-actualization going on as well.
What I really enjoy about John Green's writing are the witty little comments and banter between characters. It makes me really enjoy whatever is going on in the story he's writing about. I would give this book a 9/10.
This boy called Quentin who is around seventeen and in his last year of school before he goes to university has a crush on a girl named Margo who goes missing and throughout the book he tries to find her. I think there's self-actualization going on as well.
What I really enjoy about John Green's writing are the witty little comments and banter between characters. It makes me really enjoy whatever is going on in the story he's writing about. I would give this book a 9/10.
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