Current song playing: Coldplay- Rainy Day

WARNING: IF YOU INTEND ON READING JOHN GREEN'S BOOKS BE AWARE POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW IN THIS POST, other than that thanks for reading XD

The song in the title is one of the song's from Coldplay's EP titled "Prospekt's March", which gladly has been the soundtrack to my sunny days riding on the bus reading John Green's marvellous books. I enjoyed them so much I now feel compelled to write about them, so here goes:

Looking for Alaska:
Blimey what a book to start seriously reading on, I don't know of any other book which has actually emotionally moved me. It's about a guy called Miles going to a boarding school in Alabama and he ends up meeting rather interesting people, notably a girl called Alaska. Miles I can relate to due to his unpopularity in mainstream educational places and a notable ability to remember lots of things about a certain subject (in his case people's last words, in mine Formula 1). Seeing his raport with Alaska slowly grow as the book goes on filled me with a little glow of happiness as I felt so pleased for him, here's this ordinary guy searching for his "Great Perhaps" and yet he finds what I can only describe as a completely fascinating girl. I felt as if I was standing in Miles' very shoes as he was astounded (not just by her physical appearance) by just how different and mysterious she was, the prankster she was, how literary adept she was. Such a mind she had I couldn't help, like Miles, but be drawn to her and to know more about her. One thing I was surprised about was how much Miles mentioned his observations of how many layers of clothing stood between him and Alaska, but hey I suppose some things can't be helped but think about in the situations he was faced with hehe.
But then I was emotionally stirred once again, to read about Alaska's demise just shocked me completely. To think such a wonderful creature could just disappear like that just made me not want to believe she was gone, that she shouldn't be gone and that things just don't seem right without having the Alaska spin on the world. Perhaps this is a straightforward way of looking at it, but I thought that Alaska could be Miles' "Great Perhaps", but maybe the process of seeing her/having her/losing her as a whole could be classed as his "Great Perhaps". The one life changing event which ensures a person never is the same again.
I would recommend this book to anyone, if they can feel like how this book made me feel then it's a job well done by you Mr Green. I can't wait for the film next year.

An Abundance of Katherines:
This was a fun book to read, this book is about Colin who remarkably has been in a relationship (and dumped by) 19 girls all named Katherine and he sets out to create a formula that can predict the duration of any relationship between two people. Now how I'm studying Maths at college and the whole idea of being able to predict how a relationship will go appeals to me, I was very interested to see how Colin would do. He struggles with how his prominence as a child prodigy is a blessing and a curse, I mean to be a prodigy means you learn things which have already been proven but very fast and very well, but to be a genius requires figuring out new things that no-one else has. This unfortunately is his Achillile's Heel. But this leads him on a journey to find out whether he can matter to the world, and if he will be anything more than just a child prodigy. This spoke to me in a sense as I myself have questioned the matter of...well mattering, whether I can be of use to the world or if I will ever have a unique skill or ability which I can use to make a difference. To be more than just another guy.
This book makes for a great summer read, the formula is very interesting as is Colin's ability to anagram almost anything, and John Green's footnotes provide his mix of intelligence and humour which makes me come back everytime on his vlogbrother's YouTube channel. I mean if there's a reason why you'd watch a video on politics why not because the guy doing it is rubbing Peanut butter all over his face while he explains it to you?

Paper Towns:
If you like mystery, well my friend you've come to the right place. Although personally me being absolutely rubbish at thisisnottom.com I didn't think I stood a good chance of being able to figure out the ending of the book before it told me haha.
This book is about a guy called Quentin, and his neighbour Margo. They've known eachother for as long as they can remember, and have seen some rather interesting things together. Margo to me was one of the most spontaneous people you could ever meet, but yet the irony in that is her spontaneous happenings she plans it through most thoroughly. I liked reading about Margo expressing how her vision of Quentin in her imaginary world slowly proved to actually be the Quentin she knew all this time, but what a journey it could have been eh? To see Margo and Q travelling the width and breadth of the country doing all sorts of wonderful things. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

So anyway that's it, I hope it made for good reading as I wanted to write about this for some time.