Fifth Post

I've been reading a book called Looking for Alaska by John Green. I've been wanting to read one of his books for a while because I've heard so much about him and he's the most hilarious person in interviews and youtube videos. Looking for Alaska is about a teenage boy named Miles "Pudge" Halter who goes to a boarding school and meets a girl named Alaska. I'm about halfway in and I love it. The characters are hilarious and relatable and clever and interesting. Pudge is awkward, self-conscious, embarrassed about his body, and he memorizes famous people's last words. He has a crush on Alaska, an outspoken, unpredictable feminist prankster who smokes to much and is one mistake away from expulsion. My favorite thing about the book isn't the characters, though. It's the writing. "So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane." Seriously though. I am in awe of John Green. I think at least one of John Green's books should be in the curriculum for English class. I probably could spend hours discussing the themes in this book instead of some of the other books we are forced to read in English class and then sit in silence because none of us have anything more to say about it.