Papertowns Review

Okay, so here's another one by Green, John Green. (Just sidetracking, but I've learnt that in the world there are two kinds of people: Greenies or Levithans/ Tolkiens or Rowlings/ Lewis or Carolls. Ha, the last one's quite funny.) Anyways, yeah, I just finished Paper towns.

It's basically another typical Green story of surrounding an isolated boy and a strange strange girl, with the boy's best buds and some heck of a problem.

This time, the weird-ass boy is typical Q, or Quentin Jacobsen in full: A goody-two-shoes with psychiatric parents. The crazy girl is Margo Roth Spiegelman (however you even pronounce her last name). A popular girl in school who's quite an enigma and quite a bother especially when she's running away from home.

After an all-night run around trip with Q, the smart-ass abandoned builder locater Margo disappears, leaving clues for Q to follow because she only realises that night that she likes Q. And so comes this big adventure across the freaking state of America, including missing their graduation night because of the woman.

And the ending was more or less shitty, but not in the "WHAT IT JUST ENDED LIKE THAT? I NEED MORE!" kind of way but really just the "Man. That was a... FUDGING WASTE OF TIME!" kind of way.

I ran away from home yesterday. Ha, yeah. Though not under the influence of the book (which my mom believes it to be). Well, last Friday, my mom finally met the counsellor and she was supposed to come home and have some talk with me. Of which, seemed more like an interrogation.

I really felt... traumatised after that interrogation and so I felt I needed space. A lot of space. I felt judged. (Haha, insert Silver Lining's Playbook quote: "I opened up to you and you judged me!") But seriously, she was focusing much more on WHY I'm crazy and not "how can I help you?" or "what is this thing she told me bout?". It was just creepy.

And so, I ran on Monday. Mom almost called the police. She called the school, the school called me, I called the counsellor, the counsellor called my mom. One big round anyway. I'm going back on Thursday.

Hope shit is fine by then.

Looking for Alaska

It's 54 days till I die. And I know I've finished Looking for Alaska at least thrice now. It really is extremely depressing. Mainly, the book is told from Miles' point of view, or Pudge, as the Colonel calls him. The Colonel is his roommate in college. And on the first day of college, Pudge is introduced to Alaska.

And bam, it's love at first sight!

Pudge really gets along with Alaska, and he really likes her, both as a friend and as a girl. He never had any real friends before college. But unfortunately, Pudge finds out she has a boyfriend, of which she really really loves.

On one lonely night, Alaska introduces last-words-obssessed Pudge to Simon Bolivar's biography. His last words were: How will I ever get out of this labyrinth? And I really loved how the book played with the idea on whether the labyrinth was of death or life? The world or the end of it?

Finally, one day, after many adventures with the Colonel and Alaska, Pudge gets lucky. On that night, he finally got Alaska to bang him. But that's when it happens. She suddenly rushes off soon after that.

What happens after that, I really don't want to spoil it for you. It's a really beautiful book, much better than "The Fault in Our Stars" of which I personally hated by the way. I really loved the quotes in this one and all the secrets buried within.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

A Nice Surprise: Mini Thoughts

So happy my mother gave me a surprise by getting me The Good Luck of Right Now. Matthew Quick, awesome author!

Every Day Review (Exclusive)

Believe it or not, just 2 days after I posted the last post, I finished the book and MAN WAS THE ENDING HOR-RI-GI-BLE.

But anyways, I think it's my new favorite book for now. Basically, the whole story is written in somewhat of a diary format, yet without all the formalities. It's told from the view of A, this sort of shape shifting man who really questions identity. One day, he takes on the body of Justin and meets this angel called Rhiannon. First time he sees her, WHAM, love at first sight.

Soon, he gets addicted to seeing her. In the form of all these people he takes over, he searches for her and actually even manages to date her! But one unfortunate accident left one of the "victims" aware of his presence. And ever since, A is also being hunted down.

It's a really intriguing idea really. I love how Mr David nicely phrases all his words. Like you can really feel how lonely and desperate A really is. How tough his life has been. How tough it's about to be. How tough it is to be dating a girl and expecting her to just "get used to it".

I can't really say anymore other than the fact that it is truly an amazing book. It's made it's way to my favorites book shelf now. Well, hope you enjoy the book as much as I do. And tell me your reaction to the shitty ending!

P.S. I must get my hands on Will Grayson. It's this collab between David Levithan and John Green. Oh, and I'll probably post a review or just thoughts on Looking for Alaska. Because that was the only book by John Green that I truly truly loved.

Death: Mini thoughts

My grandmother's dying.
And I can't breathe.
Hyperventilating.
As always.
Breathing faster and faster.
As if every breath I take is hers,
Hoping with all my heart
It wouldn't be her last.
Hoping she breaths many many more breaths
In the years to come.
Hoping she isn't that lady before me
Skin getting paler
And breath
Getting lighter.
But you see
The thing about hope
Is that it's a mirage for disappointment.