Summer Reading Project: Entry 4

Looking for Alaska

I chose this book because I recognized the author, John Green. I have read The Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska by him now and I have heard many, many great things about other novels of his like, The Abundance of Katherine's. I figured if he had more than just one spectacular novel then this book must be pretty good as well, so I gave it a shot. I'm very glad I decided to read it, reading his books are actually kind of life changing because there happens to be a life lesson involved. For instance, the life lesson from, both really, The Fault in our Stars and Looking for Alaska was don't take life for granted with the little time you have because anything can change in a blink of an eye. To me that is something anyone would gladly appreciate to hear because it really is true. That is why I personally love reading his books, I'm also not a big fan of reading but his I am willing to read because there just so interesting. I would recommend this book for those who are either having troubles in their lives and need a little bit of reassurance and those who are into romance and suspense actually, because all his books lead you to thinking what could possibly happen. Looking for Alaska is more on the suspenseful side because the romance doesn't really get impacted as much in this novel as it does with just the friendships.

Summer Reading Project: Entry 3

Looking for Alaska

In the book the first paragraph give a good hook to the novel, "The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically. Although I was more or less forced to invite all my "school friends, " i. e. , the ragtag bunch of drama people and English geeks I sat with by social necessity in the cavernous cafeteria of my public school, I knew they wouldn't come. Still, my mother persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years. She cooked a small mountain of artichoke dip. She festooned our living room in green and yellow streamers, the colors of my new school. She bought two dozen champagne poppers and placed them around the edge of our coffee table." I think it really describes how the characters personality is; very unsocial. As you go on to read the book you get to see how he changes and grows relationships with people that he becomes close with. This also shows how he isn't that close to his parents because they didn't know his social life very well. It's cool reading how things change with his life and how stuff happens to affect his new life. Therefore I believe this is a good book to read.