Kate's review
An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
You've convinced me.
I've heard his first book, "Looking for Alaska," is even better, so that's next on my list...
you should submit some of these reviews for catapult... :)
I really liked Looking for Alaska and will be reading this one very soon! But the reason I'm leaving this comment is that I'd love to know the names of the other authors you've discovered through that website.
Well, blog-wise, my favorite so far is Maureen Johnson (http://maureenjohnson.blogspot..., who wrote 13 Little Blue Envelopes. I can't vouch for her skills as an author, but I think she's a great blogger. She's currently embroiled in a book-banning scandal (her The Bermudez Triangle was removed from a Kansas high school library), and that makes for great content.
She and John Green are also friends with Scott Westerfeld (http://scottwesterfeld.com/blo... and his wife Janine Larbalestier (http://www.justinelarbalestier..., a sci-fi/fantasy writer who just won the Nebula award.
There are a few others (I think E. Lockhart and Celia Castellucci are in the clique?) but those are my favorites so far, and ones whose books I've placed on hold at the library. :)
By the way, as evidenced by my previous comment, I'm having a terrible time figuring out how to make links, well, link-y on this site. Is there any way to make "pretty" (i.e. clickable, embedded) links in the text that anyone knows of?
I found John and Hank's video blog after reading John's books, too, and quickly got sucked in. All of my coworkers (I work in a YA department) make sure to watch it every day. Why are so many YA authors so stinking fun, anyway?
Kate's review
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Kate's review
rating:
bookshelves:
a-little-romance,
award-winners,
epic-odysseys,
funny-ha-ha,
outsiders,
rural-reads,
ya-fic
recommended for: Math geeks and misunderstood nerds of all ages
Damn, what a great book! An Abundance of Katherines represents the best kind of young adult fiction - the kind that even my regular, non-YA-fic-geeky grown-up friends might like to read, because it's just a fantastic, universal, well-crafted story.
The characters in this book are uniformly likeable, but not in a bland way; in particular, the friendship between protagonist Colin, a washed-up child prodigy, and his buddy Hassan, a wise-cracking Muslim, is dead-on about the way guys communicate with and care for each other. Also, about 20 per cent of the novel involves math equations and graphs, and I didn't get bored once. (I actually have no idea if 20% is a good estimate for the amount of math in this book, which is why it's amazing that I didn't fling it across the room in disgust at the first sign of cosines. Little math humor for ya, there.)
One of the best things about Katherines is what happened after I finished it: I found John Green's website. Which led me t...more
The characters in this book are uniformly likeable, but not in a bland way; in particular, the friendship between protagonist Colin, a washed-up child prodigy, and his buddy Hassan, a wise-cracking Muslim, is dead-on about the way guys communicate with and care for each other. Also, about 20 per cent of the novel involves math equations and graphs, and I didn't get bored once. (I actually have no idea if 20% is a good estimate for the amount of math in this book, which is why it's amazing that I didn't fling it across the room in disgust at the first sign of cosines. Little math humor for ya, there.)
One of the best things about Katherines is what happened after I finished it: I found John Green's website. Which led me t...more
You've convinced me.
I've heard his first book, "Looking for Alaska," is even better, so that's next on my list...
you should submit some of these reviews for catapult... :)
I really liked Looking for Alaska and will be reading this one very soon! But the reason I'm leaving this comment is that I'd love to know the names of the other authors you've discovered through that website.
Well, blog-wise, my favorite so far is Maureen Johnson (http://maureenjohnson.blogspot..., who wrote 13 Little Blue Envelopes. I can't vouch for her skills as an author, but I think she's a great blogger. She's currently embroiled in a book-banning scandal (her The Bermudez Triangle was removed from a Kansas high school library), and that makes for great content.She and John Green are also friends with Scott Westerfeld (http://scottwesterfeld.com/blo... and his wife Janine Larbalestier (http://www.justinelarbalestier..., a sci-fi/fantasy writer who just won the Nebula award.
There are a few others (I think E. Lockhart and Celia Castellucci are in the clique?) but those are my favorites so far, and ones whose books I've placed on hold at the library. :)
By the way, as evidenced by my previous comment, I'm having a terrible time figuring out how to make links, well, link-y on this site. Is there any way to make "pretty" (i.e. clickable, embedded) links in the text that anyone knows of?
I found John and Hank's video blog after reading John's books, too, and quickly got sucked in. All of my coworkers (I work in a YA department) make sure to watch it every day. Why are so many YA authors so stinking fun, anyway?