Book Review: Looking For Alaska by John Green

Looking For Alaska by John Green (2005)

Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

Looking for Alaska is a YA novel written by John Green and was first published in January 2005. This is the first published book by John Green, followed by An Abundance of Katherines and his other works.

I read this book last year, and recently re-read it, because, by this far, you may know that i love his work.

Mr. Green hit me again, in my heart, and a little bit in my pancreas with an explosive plot twist.

I really enjoyed this book, because I think it's a great plot, it's a great reading and a great writing. When I started this book I couldn't put it down, that leading me to finish it by 3 A.M.

By the time I get to the After part, I was so excited to know what was going to happen, until it hit me.

I started panicking, got into 3 minutes of pure shock, then a minute of acceptance and then keep reading it again. Because that's my reaction over a shocking moment.

Even though this book is a pretty good one, I have some mixed feelings about it.

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Book Review: James & The Dragon by Theresa Snyder

James & the Dragon by Theresa Snyder (2013)

What would you do if you were adopted by a dragon? When ten-year-old orphan James nearly drowns in a bog, he finds himself rescued by Farloft, a centuries old dragon with a glittering collection of treasures and an even richer collection of stories. But, dragons and boys are not meant to live together – or are they? When Laval – a wizard harboring a secret hatred for Farloft finds out about James, he sees his chance for revenge.

James & the Dragon is the first book in The Farloft Chronicles and was published in June 2013. This book has an awesome audio-book version that you can listen everywhere.

I started listening the audiobook version of this book, and it keep me hanged on it since the begining. {The audio-book version is FREE to download -which is awesome- and you can get it here} seriously, I've listened at least 3 times.

This book has an amazing story, with amazingly created characters; even as a children's book, adults will discover its wonderful fantasy and charm. Theresa Snyder paint a lot of amazing and really vivid images in my mind along my reading -listening-.

This short story -61 pages- tells awesome adventures and you will really want to read all 5 books of The Farloft Chronicles {#1 James & the Dragon; #2 Kingdom of the Last Dragons; #3 Dragon Deception; #4 Too Many Dragons; #5 Three & a Half Dragons} and I'm excited to get into them.

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Book Review: Blindness by José Saramago

Blindness - Essay on Blindness by Jose Saramago (1997)

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.

Blindness or Essay on Blindness is a book written by Jose Saramago and was published in English in October 1997. This book gives you a metaphor on the twentieth century problems in a "white blindness" form.

I'm not going to lie; I read this book for school and I think it was so good that I had to review it. Also, because I had so much work to do for my classes that I couldn't read a new book. 

This book made me just speechless. I really love the concept of it and how Saramago represents the problems that our society lives with this disease that affect some people. We can see how this plague destroys society. This book has some beautiful yet breathtaking quotes, like:

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”

“The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.”

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”

“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”

This book was also made into a movie released in 2008 starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, which I haven't watch yet but I'm totally hoping to watch.

To me this book is totally amazing and I 100% recommend it.

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Book Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2007)

After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.

The Graveyard Book is a book written by Neil Gaiman and was published in September 2007.

What I love about this book is that Gaiman doesn't waste time on this story, everything is there, at the time that you want it. I first read this book when I was like 12, and I absolutely loved it since then, and I've read it like a million times and I keep loving it every single time.

This book is beautifully written, it really keeps you hanging, the characters are super interesting, it has fascinating adventures, the theme of being raised in a graveyard and being able to see things that we don't get to, it's just so fantastic.

Rate: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Book Review: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (2011)

"I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened."

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship. Item after item is illustrated and accounted for, and then the box, like a girlfriend, will be dumped.

Why We Broke Up is a book written by Daniel Handler and was published in December 2011. This book is beautifully illustrated by Maira Kalman with drawings of all the things that Min gave to Ed when they broke up.

This book brings you the typical couple of a smart girl and a sporty-douchebag guy, that she knows he is a womanizer and is recognized in all the school, and he doesn't even know her name; but, with another whole side of the story, we don't get to see how he probably cheated on her and she takes revenge and all that typical situation that most stories have.

I have to say that some of the characters are not my favorite. I started hating Ed since not even the middle of the book, for some reason that I don't know, oh wait, because he is an idiot. I think that he is like those very closed mind guys, so much that he thinks that drinking coffee with milk and sugar is for "girls and faggots", and treats Min very bad, like, are you kidding me? Why are you with him?. Thank God she dumped him.

Overall, this book has a pretty good story and it's something that I have never seen before, but the characters are very important -for me- on how the story gets me. 

Rate: ★ ★ ★

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Book Review: Paper Towns by John Green

Paper Towns by John Green (2009)

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...

Paper Towns is a book written by John Green and was published in September, 2009. This book is going to be released as a movie very soon, with Cara Delevigne as Margo Roth Spiegelman and Nat Wolff as Quentin Jacobsen.

I just got a few words to describe my experience with this book: WHAT THE...; OMG; MARGO WHERE ARE YOU?!, and a few others that describe various emotions.
This book was A-MA-ZING. I just love the plot of it and all the beautifully written quotes that Green put in this book, like:

"What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."

"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

"Maybe all the strings inside him broke."

This book tells a beautiful story, of how the love from Quentin to Margo made him look for her around the country. To me this book is perfect the way it is, it has some funny moments, some deep moments, some love moments, some suspense moments, all of that make the perfect story -just like all of the John Green books, which I absolutely love-

The cover of the book totally relate with this story, because -once I read it- it reminded me of the part when Q took the map and mark every place that Margo could have been.

That being said, i completely love this book and I highly recommend it, so if you haven't read it yet, totally go and read it, because it's super super good.

Rate: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I want to apologize if this review was too short, but if you have been following my Twitter, -if you haven't all of my social media is in the side- you'd probably knew that my laptop died and I had to finish this review from my phone and I'm still getting used to write long posts from it. Thank you for understand. Have an awesome week!

First Review! Ripper by Isabel Allende

Ripper by Isabel Allende (2014)

While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature, like her father, the SFPD's Deputy Chief of Homicide. Brilliant and introverted, the MIT-bound high school senior is a natural-born sleuth addicted to crime novels and Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.

When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation, discovering, before the police do, that the deaths may be connected. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Could her mother's disappearance be linked to the serial killer? Now, with her mother's life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she's ever faced before it's too late.

Ripper is the first mystery-police book written by Isabel Allende, in a try to write something more than her awesome love and romantic stories.

I'm not a 100% sure how i feel about this book. First things first, I really like the plot of this book, because is something new of all that I have seen of Allende. The mystery of this book really keeps you hanging on the story, and makes you want to not stop reading; but, the plot twist at the end, made me want to shoot myself in the head. 

I'm not saying that the book is bad, at all -because I really enjoyed reading it- but the plot twist that Allende put in this book, just made me mad. Trying not to spoil anyone who hasn't read the book, just go and read it yourself to see what I'm talking about.

It felt 10 time worse than when you see the waiter in a restaurant bringing food that you think it's yours, but he just walks far away with that food that you are excited to eat.

I have nothing to say about the cover of the book, because it's really simple and sometimes that simplicity is good.

That being said, I really liked this book and I would totally read it again, and I'm excited to see if Isabel Allende -who is also chilean and I love that- write more books in this genre.

Rate: ★ ★ ★ ★