Book #13

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Book #13: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Finished: April 2, 2011

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! I was just on vacation over my spring break (which ends tomorrow D: ) and didn't have a lot of free time, or access to a computer. But don't worry, I have still been reading a ton and have many books to tell you about! One of the books I recently finished is Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson Summary: This book is about two boys, both named Will Grayson, who live completely different lives but fate finds themselves crossing each others path. This chance meeting extremity changes both of their lives.

My favorite things about the book: I'm a nerdfighter. I love John Green. He's amazing. So I really liked this book. John also wrote book #6: Looking for Alaska, which I thought was great. I really liked Will Grayson too but not as much. If you have read any of John's novels before than you know that he has this style he writes in. It's a witty, sarcastic, humorous but smart kind of style and I really like it. But John didn't write this book alone. You can really tell what parts John must have come up with and what parts David came up with. So I thought that was kinda cool.
I liked how when they switched between Will Graysons from chapter to chapter they changed the format of the writing so you could tell them apart. That was really helpful. And I love how fate brings these to people together and they end up helping each other. Both of the Will's are closed in people who separate them selves from the world. One who believes silence and not caring is golden and the other who the only person he has ever let in was someone who turned out to be fake. But by the end of the novel, because they meet, they end up changing their ways of going about life. I think that's just a great story.

Some things I didn't like about the book: The only thing I don't love about John's writing is that he does us swear words and borderline sexual content that I dint love. I'm basically saying his books are PG-13 if that makes any sence. I don't really mind this stuff but I don't really love it. I still think he's an amazing author. The only other thing I didn't love about this book was one part at the beginning that cut me close to the bone. That's all in going to say about that. My wounds haven't fully held yet. But that doesn't matter. It was still a great book.

Rating: I would give Will Grayson, Will Grayson a 4.0 out of 5 stars

Recommend it?: Yes, I thought it was very smart. Do read!

Disagree or agree with anything I just wrote? Let me know in the comments :). Thanks for reading! Another blog very soon! 

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That's all for now 
Adieu~ Caroline




  

Book #6

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Book #6: Looking for Alaska
Finished: February 2, 2011

Good morning John it's Thursday. 

If you're a fan of the vlogbrothers (Hank Green and John Green) on YouTube than you will know why I started my blog like that. Anyway I've been a fan, and a nerdfighter, for about a year now. This whole time I've been watching the vlogbrothers videos I've heard John talk about his book Looking for Alaska. I didn't read it right away because my school's librarian, who has read everything, told me she didn't like it- at all. And she knows books, and she knows when they're good and when they're bad. So I put off reading it for a little while, but final curiosity got the best of me and I read it. And let me say, its nothing like I thought it would be...

Looking for Alaska Summary: So this book is about a boy named Miles, later known as Pudge, who leaves Florida to go to a boarding school in alabama for his junior year of high school. At this new school he meets Alaska Young, and she changes his life forever...

My favorite thing about the book: There were a lot of things I like about this book. 1. I like thinking "haha that's such a John Green thing to say". 2. I loved Alaska's love for books, and the book and poetry references they used. 3. For the first half of the book they are counting down to something. And I being curious and having no self control looked ahead to see what they were counting down to. I couldn't figure it out. I skimmed and skimmed and skimmed, until I finally gave up and just read. Wow I didn't see this coming. I thought they were counting down to Alaska leaving, and then having Pudge go "looking for her". But no. They were counting down to Alaska's death. Did not see that coming. Congrats John, it takes a lot to pull something over my head like that. 4. I loved Alaska complicated, secret filled life. 5. I loved Pudge's essay at the end and how he figured the way out of the labyrinth.

Some things I didn't like about the book: I didn't like the huge drug, sex, and alcohol uses in the book. The one thing I didn't like about Alaska was her obsession with sex. And there was this one part in the book with Pudge and a girl named Lara that was very discussion and not needed. I mean really John? Why write that into your book, all it did was turn it from a PG-13 book to an R rated book. I can't even write about it here, i feel so dirty. But oh well, what can I do?

Rating: I would give Looking for Alaska 3 out of 5 stars

Recommend it?: Yes I would, to some.. Mature readers.. It really is a good story.

Disagree or agree with anything I just wrote? Let me know in the comments :). Thanks for reading! Another blog in about two days.

6 down, 94 to go
That's all for now 
Adieu~ Caroline