John Green

     Since you've spent long enough on the internet to find this blog I presume you've heard of my topic, John Green, or his brother Hank, before, then again you could be someone I know or you might have just managed to get on this blog by accident. John Green is an author, he does other stuff too I just don't know about all that much of it. So I'm going to focus on his books, more specifically his books which I have already read. So my friend, Alex, I'm sure she's been mentioned before, read his books and was going on about them for quite some time. I'd decided that I would read them when I got around to it but I wasn't too rushed, knowing they'd be good but not expecting anything amazing. So when I saw his book 'The Fault in our Stars' on my uncle's bookshelf while babysitting my 18 month-old cousin I began to read it. Once I started I couldn't stop, I couldn't put it down (with the exception of shutting up a crying baby). By the time my uncle got home I had finished it and was shocked, I had never read anything that good before. The book is about a 16 year-old cancer patient and was so realistic and amazingly written. I cried for this book, I haven't read a book that made me cry for at least two years now, if not longer. The book was incredibly good, I don't even know how to describe it. So anyway, I finished the book and texted Alex telling her how much I liked it and she told me he had a book even better than that, 'Looking for Alaska' it was called. That was it I needed it, I vowed to buy it at the airport before my flight to Finland the next day. I went into two Easons in the airport but neither of them had it, one of them though did have another book by him, 'An Abundance of Katherines', I bought it as I was in need of a book for the flight. This one required more concentration than the last because it was about a child-prodigy who had just graduated school and was a little lost in the world, so there was a fair bit of smart talk in it. I really enjoyed it, while it didn't effect me quite as much as 'The Fault in our Stars' it was still a great read and this time I did read it in one sitting, I finished it before I got off the plane. It was really sweet and made me quite happy. So yeah, I'm going to see if any bookshops here sell books in English and happen to have 'Looking for Alaska' in stock and I suggest you find yourself a copy of a John Green book pronto, I think you'll like it.
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