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On my wish list, Paper Towns of my acceptable Favorite Author, John Green. I downloaded an eBook version, but of course, I’m not really contented with that. I need a tangible one. This spoiler turned me on: Quentin Jacobsen, 17, has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, for his entire life. A leader at their Central Florida high school, she has carefully cultivated her badass image. Quentin is one of the smart kids. His parents are therapists and he is, above all things, “goddamned well adjusted.” Enough, enough. I’m sad, cause I can’t find any John Green books in the local NBS. Maybe my foreign followers can buy me one or sheismargo can lend her copy. :) Jk.

On my wish list, Paper Towns of my acceptable Favorite Author, John Green. I downloaded an eBook version, but of course, I’m not really contented with that. I need a tangible one.

This spoiler turned me on: Quentin Jacobsen, 17, has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, for his entire life. A leader at their Central Florida high school, she has carefully cultivated her badass image. Quentin is one of the smart kids. His parents are therapists and he is, above all things, “goddamned well adjusted.”

Enough, enough. I’m sad, cause I can’t find any John Green books in the local NBS. Maybe my foreign followers can buy me one or sheismargo can lend her copy. :) Jk.

Because I’m a bookworm.

I finally have my own copy of Paper Towns by my favorite novelist, John Green. It has been on the reserved section of National Bookstore for two weeks now, I checked for it again this afternoon and asked the branch manager if I could buy the coveted copy (Because I was on the verge of buying either American Gods or I Am Number Four), luckily, the manager said yes. I gave her my number two weeks prior, turned out she forgot to text me that she couldn’t contact the original buyer of the said book.

Then poof, the book’s mine, a full fledged hard back, it’s worth the first dose of our required MMR vaccine and a Hepa B Titer. My allowance for next week scratched half of itself. This is terrible, being a bookworm really. The book you love, one time, big time opportunities, we never let them pass.

I can’t wait to finish Mockingjay.

I’m actually done with Paper Towns, too tired to make a review though.

I’m actually done with Paper Towns, too tired to make a review though.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Q Jacobsen (Paper Towns, John Green)
“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” The third young adult novel of the celebrated novelist, John Green, entitled Paper Towns featured a reincarnation of Alaska, only her name’s now Margo. On this book, John Green gave us the privilege to finally find Alaska. Alaska.. as the adventurous Margo. A couple of weeks prior to their high school graduation, Quentin Jacobsen’s life spun in the weirdest way, his childhood best friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman, resurfaces in his life and invited him on one of her “once-in-a-lifetime” journeys to wreak havoc to the people she has been hurt by. Quentin loved Margo from the very start, so there, he didn’t have a choice, he picked the key, and went out with Margo. As they’re going on their journey, Margo says that she’s tired of being in Orlando, also what she calls a Paper Town. After the epic journey, Quentin slept for barely an hour and went to school confused and hung over. Margo, now a full-blown puzzle. In a nutshell, the book’s title should be Looking For Margo. The book embraced the theme of it’s predecessor, Looking For Alaska, it, too gave emphasis in the cracking up of the mystery called: The Human Person. Once again, Green took us on a journey of discovery and reflection. He expound on the famous cliche of the generation, that no matter how cheerful and content a person is on the outside, we can never be sure that her inner ambiance shouts the same way too. I guess, Mr. Green addressed one of the very common issue of the teenage population: the problem on self expression, teenagers nowadays spend majority of their time trying to fit in, hanging out with the cool and in crowd, in the same manner, putting aside their personality and self preference for the sake of pleasing the parents, the current friends and merely measuring up on other people’s standards. Mr. Green allowed us to use the all seeing eye and see the effect of wrapping yourself up into a goody two-shoed pawn. I loved the book. When I saw it on the reserved section, I purchased it first thing. Yes, it’s true that Paper Towns has an obvious congruence with Looking For Alaska and Mr. Green’s other books, but at the end of the day, we really don’t have to care, cause, once again, Mr. Green gave us a compelling account of our teen age lives, a life changing journey towards self development and the never ending appreciation that every person is born different, a circle, but as we grow up, we change in form, maybe because of peer pressure and the like. From a circle to a million-sided persona that needs to be cracked and be fully appreciated. P.S. I enjoyed The Vessel part, was tachycardic till the very last page.

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

The third young adult novel of the celebrated novelist, John Green, entitled Paper Towns featured a reincarnation of Alaska, only her name’s now Margo. On this book, John Green gave us the privilege to finally find Alaska. Alaska.. as the adventurous Margo.

A couple of weeks prior to their high school graduation, Quentin Jacobsen’s life spun in the weirdest way, his childhood best friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman, resurfaces in his life and invited him on one of her “once-in-a-lifetime” journeys to wreak havoc to the people she has been hurt by. Quentin loved Margo from the very start, so there, he didn’t have a choice, he picked the key, and went out with Margo. As they’re going on their journey, Margo says that she’s tired of being in Orlando, also what she calls a Paper Town. After the epic journey, Quentin slept for barely an hour and went to school confused and hung over. Margo, now a full-blown puzzle.

In a nutshell, the book’s title should be Looking For Margo. The book embraced the theme of it’s predecessor, Looking For Alaska, it, too gave emphasis in the cracking up of the mystery called: The Human Person. Once again, Green took us on a journey of discovery and reflection. He expound on the famous cliche of the generation, that no matter how cheerful and content a person is on the outside, we can never be sure that her inner ambiance shouts the same way too.

I guess, Mr. Green addressed one of the very common issue of the teenage population: the problem on self expression, teenagers nowadays spend majority of their time trying to fit in, hanging out with the cool and in crowd, in the same manner, putting aside their personality and self preference for the sake of pleasing the parents, the current friends and merely measuring up on other people’s standards. Mr. Green allowed us to use the all seeing eye and see the effect of wrapping yourself up into a goody two-shoed pawn.

I loved the book. When I saw it on the reserved section, I purchased it first thing. Yes, it’s true that Paper Towns has an obvious congruence with Looking For Alaska and Mr. Green’s other books, but at the end of the day, we really don’t have to care, cause, once again, Mr. Green gave us a compelling account of our teen age lives, a life changing journey towards self development and the never ending appreciation that every person is born different, a circle, but as we grow up, we change in form, maybe because of peer pressure and the like. From a circle to a million-sided persona that needs to be cracked and be fully appreciated.

P.S.

I enjoyed The Vessel part, was tachycardic till the very last page.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
Paper Towns (John Green)
Last Monday, while finishing Paper Towns. It’s a pleasure: reading inside a crowded mall, zoning out without them noticing.

Last Monday, while finishing Paper Towns. It’s a pleasure: reading inside a crowded mall, zoning out without them noticing.

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I really love hearing John Green read the first chapter of Paper Towns. The Ringolator!

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