Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Ok but in all seriousness. I have lots of feelings about this book and I already love it. I love Davis.
Mustard. Yup. Mustard. Just Aza's thoughts on her own mental illness and herself...accurate. The self hatred and identity crisis.
Ok so open-ended ending that technically isn't open-ended...
320 Pages

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

#BecRereads2018

I both love and hate that I reread this gorgeous, funny story that fist punches people right in the soft places. The previous review still stands.

Book 5 read in 2018

Pages: 313


PREVIOUS REVIEW:

Eff.

This novel destroyed me from the inside out. I avoided it, because I thought it was going to be another Cancer Kid book that makes me cry. It is (a Cancer Kid book) and it did (make me cry), but it went way beyond that. I think it set a new standard that other authors in this genre will struggle to live up to.

I let this story into my life, all the gorgeous notions and metaphors and ideas and words. I almost wanted to be the characters, full of wit, humor, life, and individuality, despite how difficult, messy, and painful their lives actually were.

And then the grenade exploded. The shrapnel pierced me, and I stood by and let it happen. Because some stories are worth bleeding over, worth crying for, and worth screaming at the universe for.

The ache it leaves is a tragic side effect...of Epic Stories, not Dying. Well, both actually.

Read with caution: I think it left a new scar on my well-traveled reader's heart.

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was so honest in a beautiful and yet also painful sort of way. It’s one of the best YA depictions of severe anxiety that I have read, and you can trust me when I say I have read a lot of contemporary YA novels about characters with mental illness and/or anxiety.

This story does a good job of showing not only the impacts that anxiety has on the main character but also the impacts and challenges for family members and friends.

It does not preach, and it does not make false promises.

It does ache.

Some part of me suspected that I would like but not love this story, because I expected it to be like so many others. But it just wasn’t. There’s something so raw and honest about this that it’s impossible to turn away. I was compelled to read onward, and the reward was the kind of truth that haunts me.

I’m happy this book exists.

Pages: 304

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I like this. I don't totally love it, but John Green writes great characters. I liked the characters far better than the actual story, which didn't really hold my interest. But the characters were fantastic and well worth my time.

Pages: 229