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#ItTakesAllKinds Day1 Road Trip
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don‘t imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#ItTakesAllKinds Day1 Road Trip
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don‘t imagine, nothing ever happens at all."
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
so-soBook #27 of the year: “Paper Towns” by John Green
Very similar to “Looking for Alaska” with the mysterious, curvy dream girl who loves pranks and disappears, leaving a lovestruck boy to unravel the strings. Green did a better job of humanizing her and challenging the “manic pixie dream girl” stereotype.
pickSo, this isn‘t the typical book I normally read, but I‘m glad I did! I don‘t know if it‘s because I finally experienced the freedom the book talks about, but I definitely related to both Quinton and Margo. I‘m glad I finally gave this book a chance because i enjoyed it more then I thought I would.
pickSomehow this was the first book I've read by John Green, but it certainly won't be the last. I really enjoyed this! It's a contemporary young adult novel with elements of mystery. I look forward to recommending it to my nieces :)
I plucked PAPER TOWNS off La TBR this morning because I needed something short after my last long-ass read. At first I thought it might be too American High School for me, but I‘m 75 pages in now and I think we‘ll probably get along.
EXCEPT, I thought this was about childhood friends on a road trip to identify paper towns (fake places mapmakers add as a sort of a signature), and it doesn‘t seem to be that at all? Huh.
Getting ready to start this one. I loved The Fault in our Stars so I have high hopes for this one. Pay no attention to the weeds that I need to pull lol. I‘ve been reading a lot and I‘m not quite ready for the gardening to begin 🤣
so-so4 stars.. I don't remember loving this?! Maybe i remember the movie suckeeed
bailedI dont blame the book. I literally just cannot read YA anymore. Ill just have to be happy remembering how cute the movie was.
Book 45
I‘m gonna post a book (or series) from my TBR every day until I‘ve shared the lot. No descriptions. No explanations. Just a whole bunch of books I haven‘t read yet.
This is Day 24.
#LaTBRrevealed
so-soI love John green but this is not one of my favorites. To me the character kind of fell flat. The story was alright.
panThe MC is obsessed with this girl and literally ignores his own life to find this girl who has a history of running away.
Not a fan at all, but it was on my shelf and now it has been read (listened to).
“Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thing and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I‘ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
//-John Green, Paper Towns
#Johngreen #Papertowns
“Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be the last; the last shall be the first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to stop.”
pick175 pages. A bit of John Green strike. I read those either early in the morning, or after hard day at work, so eventually they started to blend. Problematic is similar everywhere but in the end it is a YA literature. Would recommend either for light read or for a teenager.
#papertowns #agloe #johngreen
1. There was a time when everyone was swooning over John Green. I read two of his books & found him to be just amazingly pretentious. He was also one of those authors who was always giving life advice to fangirls on tumblr & just... ugh. Still not over the “sex is like Cheerios“ analogy & it's been years. 😂
2. I can't think of a specific match - I just love reading in cozy places!!
3. Chocolate!!!
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
pickThis was my #bookspin for September. I'll get there eventually. At first I thought: great, another boy with his mysterious unfathomable girl. But I started to enjoy it halfway during the search for Margo, although it was all a bit unrealistic. It is a bit formulaic. I'm going to give it three out of five stars. @TheAromaofBooks
TBR since July 7th. 2019, 305 pages
pickI read Looking for Alaska earlier this year and I felt this book was quite similar.
If I was a teenager or maybe in my early 20's I might have enjoyed these coming of age stories a bit more, but I would recommend them to my girls when they become teens.
I might also suggest Green's work to my 18yr old son as they both have male protagonists.
I have The Fault in our Stars on my shelf, I think that might be the last of Green's I'll read.
pickAlthough I read this before, I still really enjoyed it the second time round. I kind of read it in a different way though, and had a very different opinion on the characters, which surprised me, as this never happened to me before. Over all, I really enjoyed reading it, and it has a lot of good laughs and likeable characters.
Read from 11/08/2020 - 19/08/2020
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panThis was a re-read for me. I‘ve read it once before in high school for a group project and disliked it very much then. When I re-read it a few days ago, I still disliked it but not as much. Paper Towns is my least favorite of the John Green books I‘ve read so far. Rating: 2 ⭐️
The journey of Quentin after his young love- Margo Roth Spiegelman and her mysterious adventures makes an incredible storyline written by the bestselling author John Green- highly recommended! The writing, the characters, everything makes the reader fall for the deep secrets of Paper Towns.
“in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you‘re trying to listen to.”
Maybe this is why listening to others is so hard for us.
Edit: Add me to the “I don‘t like Margo” list. And the ending? Meh.
I had to steal my daughter‘s book, couldn‘t think of any book pertaining to #rain !!
“Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
#BloomingBibliophiles
pickI really enjoyed it and I felt interested in the story. The ending was a little disappointing but still good.
pickSummary : Quentin Jacobsen has loved Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar all his life . One night , she invites him on a spontaneous journey to get revenge on the people that have hurt her . The next day , she disappears and Quentin finds clues that she left for him , or so he thought . He embarks on a journey with his friends to find her and gain her love .
Up next for my book club with my students!!! Looking forward to this one Just finished and....I wasn‘t a fan. Margo was selfish. Q was unrealistic. The teacher in me was so mad at the whole gang. I did laugh at some parts, mainly when it had to do with Ben and Radar. Still, a flop. My students loved it, though.
Genre : YA Fiction , Mystery
Date Started : 01/22/20
Date Completed : 03/01/20
How did you choose this book : It was gifted to me.
Who was the protagonist; what was his/her problem and how was the problem resolved ?
pickTe Araroa kilometers tramped: 1354.8 of 3005.3
Books completed on trail: 22
The book wasn‘t so captivating but I finished it in front of a campfire with a cup of hot chocolate.
From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it.
John Green, Paper Towns.
“it is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.“
pickRead my first John green in one day while feeling ill on my day off (which isn‘t fair). It‘s odd finally reading a book that‘s such a big part of pop culture - I feel like I already knew so much of it and almost didn‘t have to read it. But if I think about what it would have been like to read before it was such a big deal and if I‘d been younger I‘d have adored it so it‘s a pick.
*Sorry I am just posting this now... I really did wanna post it yesterday! This sickness needs to leave our house!*
Hey there my #NWC family!! Here is week 2 of the November Book Challenge. Have fun with your answers!!
panI really didn‘t like Margo. I didn‘t enjoy the “ride” enough to say I enjoyed the book. I‘ve read others by John Green and enjoyed it... but this one I couldn‘t get into or really enjoy. Hmm now considering if it‘s worth watching the movie...
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So maybe it‘s the psychiatric nurse in me and has me enjoying this page :)
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It‘s still a struggle to read this one... but sometimes there are some cute little snippets.
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