An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - Restarting June 20th 2018

[Abi]

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Restarting February 9th 2014

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[Christina]

I'm in too :D

[Mira]

Me too :)

[Christina]

@Mira
I notice you've been reading a lot of John Green! :)

[Mira]

@Christina Yeah I'm just starting though. So far I've only read Will Grayson, Will Grayson and I'm gonna read An Abundance of Kathrines with you guys and then I plan to read The Fault in our Stars too :)

[Christina]

10% - The main character sure is one unique dude (view spoiler)[A prodigy not genius (someone who learns not does as John Green explains) It's weird how he's dated 19 Katherines (and it has to be that exact spelling!) Not sure why yet but maybe there's some calculation behind it lol

I didn't have many Katherines at my school. For Colin to find 19 is incredible.
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[Christina]

OMG I laughed at the Venn Diagram of 'Interesting people' and 'Celebrity Living People' absolutely nothing in common!! Bahaha

[Mira]

Hahahaha yeah that was hilarious! x'D

[Christina]

25% - Only John Green would make a 99 word sentence consisting of Pi (where a=1, b =2, etc)...!

[Christina]

40% - Random much? (view spoiler)[Lindsey, Colin and Hassan are interviewing a guy who works at a factory producing two and one eight inches of cotton strings for tampons.

LOL (hide spoiler)]

[Christina]

60% - (view spoiler)[Lindsey seems like a nice girl for Colin. Too bad she's taken by TOC...
I wonder how the Theorem/equation will turn out! (hide spoiler)]

[Christina]

Finished - (view spoiler)[The ending was pretty adorable! I hated reading the story behind the Katherines because the fact of 18/19 Katherines just annoyed me lol (hide spoiler)]

[Mira]

28% This book is very very boring. Colin is incredibly whiny. I don't know how I'm supposed to finish this.

[Christina]

@Mira
Aww, don't force yourself if you're not enjoying it!
I found it alright. I liked Looking for Alaska more!

[Mira]

@Christina Thanks. I'm really sorry I couldn't finish it. I haven't read Looking for Alaska though. I might check it out later when I've forgotten all about the monstrosity that is an Abundance of Kathrines xD

[Christina]

@Mira
No probs, life is too short to read something you don't enjoy hehe

[Mira]

Christina wrote: "@Mira
No probs, life is too short to read something you don't enjoy hehe"

haha yep x)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

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Date changed. Restarting April 7th 2014. Happy Reading ☺

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[Rachael]

Hi Caitlyn, welcome! So basically yes you got it, you read at your own pace and then discuss as you go.. Just use spoiler tags < spoiler > (without the spaces) just in case someone in the thread isn't as far as you are.

So I comment like this,

Finished Chapter 2 (view spoiler)[ yadda yadda yadda (hide spoiler)]

[Rachael]

Or you could do

Page 16 (view spoiler)[ ... (hide spoiler)]

[Rachael]

Ah okay you're making me so excited to read this.. I'm starting now!

[Rachael]

Oh crap my ebook starts with the "epigraph"... Isn't that supposed to be at the end? Hope I didn't ruin anything

[Rachael]

Chapter 1 (view spoiler)[ OMGSH do we have a stress puker in this book too? The MC of which I just read has that same problem! (hide spoiler)]

[Rachael]

So the ebook I was reading didn't have any footnotes and knowing John Green's style of writing I knew I NEEDED to see the footnotes.. So I just got back from the book store with the paperback and I'm so thrilled

[Rachael]

Finished chapter 4 and I can't stop laughing.. They are hilarious, this is great

[Rachael]

Chapter 7 (view spoiler)[ When she tells him they make tampon strings and he doesn't laugh but thinks Tampons have strings? Why? hahaha just so funny (hide spoiler)]

[Rachael]

I'm through chapter 10 today and I'm pretty bored.. I mean it has it's funny moments and I can appreciate the characters but it's not exactly a page turner..

I'm still baffled by the fact that he's actually dated 19 girls named Katherine... I thought there was some catch to that because who even knows that many people with the same name spelt the same way!?! No one!!

[Rachael]

Caitlyn wrote: "@Rachael
I agree with everything you just said. This book is going no where but I am still reading because it is funny and I hate to abandon books. Why does he have to date Katherine's? Why can't h..."

That's what I'm thinking! And then that would start Lindsey on a train and book 2 would be called An Abundance of Collin's haha

[Rachael]

Chapter 14 (view spoiler)[ AHH I like this.. this Lindsey Lee Wells & Colin thing.. And this quote "The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real" (hide spoiler)]

[Rachael]

The fight scene is so funny! I was dying

[Rachael]

Chapter 17 (view spoiler)[ I love Hassan & Colin's friendship.. and I love this quote. Collin: "Who are you looking to date?" Hassan: "Uh-uh dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage." (hide spoiler)]

Oh and also (view spoiler)[ They got the Theorem figured out!! I have this prediction that when they plug Lindsey & Collin into the theorem it's gonna be like... a straight line (hide spoiler)]

[Paulien]

Laura and I will start reading this one on the 12th of June!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

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Date changed. Restarting June 12th 2015 Happy Reading ☺

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[Danielle ♥]

Sign me up!!

[Kate]

Started but might go slowly because of work -_-

End of chapter 3

(view spoiler)[How could someone know a lot of Katherines in his lifetime? Or better yet, be in love with them?

Colin is really no ordinary boy. :D (hide spoiler)]

[Danielle ♥]

Kate wrote: "Started but might go slowly because of work -_-..."

Me too, so no worries! I haven't had a chance to start yet, and honestly might not until later this weekend! :O I'll keep you updated though.

[Zuzia]

I'll join. I have to pick it up from the library first though.

[Laura]

I just started it. I'm at chapter 5 and I like it so far

[Laura]

end chapter 11: Idk I feel like nothing important is happening? it's not very boring but not very interesting as well??

[Zuzia]

I started it on Tuesday and now I'm nearly finished. I agree with you, Laura, it feels like that for most of the book. It gets more exciting towards the end, though.

[Zuzia]

I just finished reading it. I really liked the ending! Although it was predictable, it ended the story really well and Colin's last flashback provided real closure.

[Reading Rediscovered]

Pre-reading (view spoiler)[ I tried to read this a while back & just couldn't get into it. (Read maybe 60% of it) I thought for sure I would like it because I love math & footnotes & reading, and this book had all three....but alas, I was reading it on my phone and the e-book version did a crappy job of footnotes, so it didn't transfer well. (hide spoiler)]
Chapter 4 (view spoiler)[ Well, I'm enjoying this more than I did last time. I feel like it's going back to an old friend because I remember a lot of what happened so far. Hassan is so funny & Colin is hilarious but I don't think he quite knows how funny he is. (hide spoiler)]
General note around the end of Chapter 8 (view spoiler)[ These footnotes are just killing me! This book is hilarious! I don't usually love contemporaries so much but this one is just what I needed! I'm just flying through this time around & Lindsey & Colin's friendship is making so much more sense now! The little nuances of how they play off each other & their little jabs at one another are so perfect! (hide spoiler)]
Chapter 15 (view spoiler)[ If hog hunting is always that eventful, sign me up...no, wait, please don't. Hornets & tobacco & catching people cheating - everything happened so fast, but the pacing was just on point for this section! Colin has now sort of morphed into the boy without a girlfriend & it's a good role for him. But when will he recognize he needs to be with Lindsey?! (hide spoiler)]
End (view spoiler)[ YES! Lindsey & Colin <3 This was a good run. The ending was predictable but I loved it! And I liked that the epilogue was from Lindsey's point of view. Also, the appendix with the math guy made my head sort of spin...and I have a degree in math (ok...so it's an undergrad teachable subject...but still!) (hide spoiler)]

[Danielle ♥]

I just started today! :)

[Danielle ♥]

Finished Chapter 2 (view spoiler)[this dude is TRULY heartbroken ... Hassan seems to be a really great friend, though. (hide spoiler)]

[Danielle ♥]

Chapter 5 (view spoiler)[I know Colin is smart and seems like a nice guy but he seems like a complete pansy. I keep imagining Colin as a type just like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory plus a sex life (er, a possibility of one, since K-19, as he now so affectionately calls her, dumped him). And the way he is acting around Lindsey is ridicous, he met her literally A few minutes ago... Desperate?? AND (one last vent, I promise) forget that all of Colin's girlfriends were named Katherine, who the heck has had 19 girlfriends by senior year of high school!? (hide spoiler)]

[Danielle ♥]

Chapter 11 (view spoiler)[this book is kind of boring :/ (hide spoiler)]

[Danielle ♥]

Just finished and posted my review (view spoiler)[I really enjoyed this book, but only like the last 10 chapters. I thoroughly enjoyed his explanation of the Latherines at the end :) It has a really super marvelous ending that I loved but it wasn't an easy road for me to get there. I enjoyed the math and the trivia a lot, but the middle was really slow.I really appreciate the appendix, but did not thoroughly read it (may not be able to lol). Although the ending was predictable, which is a peeve of mine, it ending in a deeply unique and fulfilling way. I've really no clue how to rate this but since the ending left me very satisfied and I like John Green, I'll go with (hide spoiler)] 4 of 5.

[James]

I started the book today.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

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[Shav]

I think I'll join