… John Green’s Looking for Alaska centers on the experiences of Miles Halter, an ordinary, unadventurous teen who is looking for his “Great Perhaps” at an Alabama boarding school. While there, Miles meets, and immediately becomes enamored of, a girl named Alaska Young, who is as exciting and reckless as he is not. Miles hopes to [...]
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Memorable Quotes: Looking for Alaska
Posted by Kathleen on April 3, 2012
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/memorable-quotes-looking-for-alaska/
Five Offbeat YA Mysteries
Instead of posting individual reviews for these five YA books, I thought I would group them together in one post to highlight the theme that connects them. These are all what I am deeming “offbeat mysteries,” YA books that feature a central mystery, but which are not detective or puzzle stories. In these books, the [...]
Posted by Kathleen on December 30, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/five-offbeat-ya-mysteries/
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
… Will Grayson, Will Grayson is an improbable book. Or, I suppose I should clarify, it is a book based around several bizarre (and often hilarious) improbabilities, which, in turn, cause the book’s very existence to seem strange and unprecedented. In truth, I don’t know if there are other novels out there that are just like—or [...]
Posted by Kathleen on October 7, 2011
http://diaryofafuturegoldengirl.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/will-grayson-will-grayson/
