Paper Towns

The Bookworm Says....YES!! Paper Towns by John Green was an amazing book! John Green is amazing. I have read four books by him and all four were amazing. He is a spectacular author. Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen find a man dead and bleeding in a park. They run home to their parents and are terrified. Later, seniors in high school, they don't talk much, but neither forgets. Margo knocks on Q's window in the middle of the night and demand he take her on a crazy trip of revenge. Margo is quite outgoing, the opposite of Q. Margo has run away many times and is known to leave mysterious clues. She runs away again, and it is her longest time ever. These clues are much more vague, including some things about paper people and paper cildren. "All those paper people, living in their paper houses, burning the future to keep warm... I've been living here for 18 years and not once have I come across someone who cares about something that actually matters." Does she want to be found? Is she alive? And will Q find her in time? (Ill stop there as to not give away the ending) Another truly spectacular book. Well done John Green, well done. You will love this book if you are the kind of person that likes metaphors. You will also like most John Green books if you are a fan of Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher or Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Thirteen Reasons Why

The Bookworm Says...YES! Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher was a wonderful book. Hannah Baker is dead. She committed suicide a month ago. She is dead. Gone. There is no turning back. No one will hear her voice again.
Or will they?
A select 13 people will.
Hannah recorded thirteen suicide tapes on a cassette recorder and mailed them to the person that Cassette 1: Side A was about and then swallowed the pills. Each person that listens to the tapes will view life differently, and have to live with the fact that in some way- whether by being rude to her or worse- they are part of the reason she committed suicide. Clay Jensen's point of view on the tapes and the part he played in Hannah's suicide are very interesting. Who could have stopped Hannah? Who knew? Who could have stopped her? Why didn't they?
This is brief because I don't want to give away any surprises. If you want to listen to Hannah's tapes yourself go to youtube on the channel Hannahsfriend13.
Enjoy!