An Abundance Of Katherines by John Green | A Review

An Abundance Of Katherines by John Green | A Review

    An Abundance Of Katherines is much like all of John Green's other books; amazing and real to life. This book touches on breakups and being broken up with and how much it sucks, especially if you're a chronic dumpee. Or so you think. 

    The main character in this book feels the need to matter in life; to amount to something. I'm positive a lot of people feel this way or something similar. And a lot of people think that mattering in life works out to fame or making a difference in the world or some form of success. But that's not the case, and this book shows that by mattering to someone you care about, that it's just as satisfying. 

    One thing that definitely stands out about Abundance is the starred notes at the bottom of pages and the graphs throughout the story. I enjoyed the notes at the bottom of the pages, as those prevent not knowing what's being talked about, and run-on sentences. But I wasn't quite feeling the graphs. Although that could just be me and my poor understanding of math. 

    Best of all, the ending isn't something you'd expect.

"I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none." 

Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad | A Review

Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad (An LA Candy Novel) | A Review

    I'm not sure what to really say about this book. It's a teenybopper novel that doesn't really have an overall moral value to learn. All you really get from it is that one of the main characters, Madison, is basically a she-devil, that lies catch up to you in the end and sometimes you have to let your friends make their mistakes on their own so they learn from them.

    This is the second novel by Lauren Conrad and it's pretty good. It wasn't as good as the first one, LA Candy. As I couldn't put that one down and read it in about a day and a half. But it was still alright, and I will still buy the sequels and read them. Other than that, there's not much I have to say about it. I guess you could say these books are a bit of a guilty pleasure. 

[Side Note: Don't get me wrong, I love LC.]

Paper Towns by John Green | A Review

Paper Towns by John Green | A Review

    This is the second book by John Green that I've read in about a week and a half. I'd never read any of John Green's books previously, but obviously had heard rave reviews. Needless to say, they've been living up to the hype. 

    The thing I loved about Paper Towns is all the adventure, and the dialogue, and the funny banter. It's all very real. It also puts you on a bit of an emotional roller coaster, which just adds to the heaviness of the overall story line. You don't even realize that you're reading something with a heavy kind-of moral value until you're sitting there, having finished the book and think back on it. 

    I absolutely love how a lot of the book is based around Q, the main character, learning that you have to see people for who they are, not who you've made them up to be in your head. You have to accept what's on the inside, right in front of you. I think that's a really important thing to touch on that a lot of people could learn from. 

    John Green's books never seem to end the way you'd want them to. But I guess that makes the story even more real, because life never does really turn out exactly how you had planned. So I guess that makes it okay. 

"What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person."