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Maggie May
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
Finished this book while on vacation in Florida with my three best friends. I must say I didn’t expect it to be as an easy read as it was until I went to Barnes and Noble to purchase it. I asked the woman where Looking for Alaska was because I couldn’t find it in the fiction section under the last name Green. She checked her computer and said, “It’s in teen fiction.” Then as I started reading the book I fount it to be really easy. The writing however, did remind me of Holden Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye. I definitely recommend it for the teen, and honestly anyone will enjoy the easy read. At first I was wondering where it was going because it was set up as “before” and “after.” And let me just say I didn’t expect the actual event that the ‘before’ and ‘after’ was based on. I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback from people about this book, but I felt it would’ve been more suited for a 13-16 year old. I did enjoy a light read on the beach though and I stayed hooked for the entire reading :)
Probably the most well known quote from the book.
Actually, I hadn’t drunk since that night, and didn’t feel particularly inclined to ever take it up ever again.
It was that quick. I laughed, looked nervous and she leaned in and tilted her head to the side, and we were kissing. Zero layers between us. Our tongues dancing back and forth in each other’s mouth until there was no her mouth and my mouth but only our mouths intertwined. She tasted like cigarettes and Mountain Dew and wine and Chap Stick. Her hand came to my face and I felt her soft fingers tracing the line of my jaw. We lay down as we kissed, she on top of me, and I began to move beneath her.
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in afterlife becaue they couldn’t bear not to.
I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and I doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out.
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness.
Looking For Alaska, by John Green
“And now is as good a time as any to say that she was beautiful. In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, when teh burning cherry of the cigarette washed her face in pale red light. But even in the dark, I could see her eyes — fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endevaor. And not just beautiful, but hot, too, with her breasts straining against her tight tank top, her curved legs swinging back and forth beneath the the swing, flip-flops dangling from her electric-blue-painted toes. It was right then, between when I asked about the labyrinth and when she answered me, that I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls’ bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I’d noticed curves before, of course, but I had never quite apprehended their significance. “
House Rules by Jodi Picoult. While I can agree with the common opinion people may have that all of her books are the same — there’s a sybling with a problem, a normal sybling who has problems from that, and somehow through it all a court case arises, and possibly someone dies sometime throughout the book — I think that each of the different stories, with different illness, are fantastically written. I truly LOVE how each chapter is written in the perspective of a different character. Usually in books you get one tone the entire time. But in Jodi Picoult books you get different attitudes, points of view and personalities. It’s never boring. I also like her books because you learn about a certain condition. This one in particular was Aspergers. Very interesting to say the least; and I thought the ending was absolutely adorable. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a murder myster, with a court case, and lots of emotion. VERY good in my eyes. Jodi Picoult is definetly an author I wish I was friends with, and could just call up to talk about the book after I finish it.
Next up: Looking for Alaska by John Green
I reaaaallly need to read this book already!
This is now on my reading to-do list :)
