Looking For Alaska

Here we are with another John Green book, he's not going anywhere, anytime soon though because the book I am going to be starting is also by him. However, this blog is about Looking For Alaska. This book was highly recommended by all my nerdfighter friends. If you don't know what a nerdfighter is, click it!

Looking For Alaska is a nut shell is a story of Miles Halter, Pudge, from Florida who transfers to a Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama to seek his "Great Perhaps". Upon arriving he meet his roommate Chip, otherwise known as the Colonel, who then introduces him to his new found crush Alaska Young. Unfortunately, Alaska has a boyfriend, Jake, who she is deeply in love with, but it doesn't stop her from flirting with Pudge. Pudge also becomes friends with Takumi and Lara through the Colonel and Alaska. His first full semester at Culver Creek is full of fun and pranking with his new found friends. They have brought so many changes to his not so eventful life. However, everything changes one night when Alaska Young crashes into a police cruiser. She dies instantly. This dumbfounds her friends and they spend the rest of the book trying to figure out why this happened and what caused it. To finally unlock the secrets behind the mysterious, Alaska Young.

I really enjoyed this book. I'm sure that if I were more of a cryer this book would've done it for me. However, the story was very enjoyable and heart-wrenching. I did not expect most of what was thrown at me, which was good and bad. I would not recommend it for younger children due to a few as I would put "uncomfortable situations".

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

I heard a lot of hype over The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. So of course, I had to investigate for myself.

The book is a compile of letters written to a girl referred to throughout the book as "friend" from a boy under the pen name of "Charlie". He has been told this girl is someone he can let everything out to, but he changes critical details like names to protect theirs and his identities. During the course of the time he writes to this girl, he basically just lets her know how his daily life is going. Letting her know almost everything in great detail. Sometimes a little too much detail. These going the lines of talking about family, friends, teachers, and anything else he has done with them. In the beginning of the book we are drawn back to an explanation about the loss of his dear friend Michael. This affected Charlie very much. Charlie is definitely a wallflower, and does not seem to really know how to handle situations like you or I would. This effects the way that he deals with people and how he feels towards others. Regardless of the way he acts he is a compassionate person and truly holds others higher than himself. Through out the book he is constantly learning and observing others ways of life with unbiased eyes.

I do not believe the book really deserved such hype. I will admit, however, that the book was very interesting, and the book had a very good plot. But, I did not care for the bits of the book that really went into detail and basically just scanned right through those parts. This is not something I would recommend for younger readers.