Book # 23

For the last week, I have been reading another John Green book, Paper Towns. He is again, the author of the amazing book, Looking for Alaska. Therefore, while I was at the warehouse book sale, I figured I would pick up a few more of his books to read.

Another book for 1$ at the sale.

This book is about a guy and a girl, who have known each other almost their whole lives, and yet really don't know each other at all. This guy is in love with this girl, who decides to leave their town. He decides to search for her using her clues as a way to find her. This book is more about self discovery, and about how a person is usually only how you see them. It is hard for us to see people as themselves, we usually see people as how we want to see them. This was such an interesting part of this book, and I really loved how that was the center of the book, rather than the boy character's love for the girl character. We have all had that moment, where we finally meet someone and they're not who we thought they were. That is usually because we project our ideas of them onto them, and then when they don't stand up to those ideas we are disappointed and hurt. My questions is, "How long can you live as someone else's idea of yourself?" That is what Margo, the girl character in this book is trying to escape. She can no longer live as her friends' idea of Margo, her parents' idea of Margo, or even Quentin's (the main character) idea of Margo. She finally has to leave in order for her to become herself, her own idea of herself. Quentin also has some life changing revelations during the book, and he finally realizes the real person he is, and the real people his friends are without projecting a perfect image upon them. It's a great book for teens, and I really loved it as an adult as well. It illustrates how difficult it can be to transition from a high school student to an adult at graduation.

Rating: (out of 7 stars)