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Not a damn turtle in sight

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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CBR12 BINGO: Orange I keep trying to like young adult fiction, to the point where it might be unfair of me to review the genre, since it’s clearly not my thing. There are exceptions, of course (my recent discovery of Eleanor & Park stands out), but generally all I can expect from YA is a solid character to whom teenagers can relate. Turtles All the Way Down scores in its representation of a teenage girl with severe anxiety and OCD, but the rest of it just […]

An Orange Cover by a Green (CBR12Bingo: Orange – Double Bingo)

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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I really liked this book and wasn’t expecting to. It was a dollar and I can’t resist a bargain, but I was pretty underwhelmed by The Fault in Our Stars – didn’t hate it but didn’t understand why it was a blockbuster. It’s kind of a recurring problem with teen romances – teenage romances don’t last (well, typically. I met my husband at 18. We were children. Our being together makes little to no sense) – so you know they’re not gonna live happier ever […]

Shades of Gray

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

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One Will Grayson is a teenage boy trapped under his self-imposed ‘rules’ of aloofness and the considerable shadow of his flamboyant and outspoken best friend. The other Will Grayson is a teenage boy trapped under the suffocating shadow of his clinical depression and closeted sexual orientation. Both are surviving but neither are thriving. Neither are fully engaging with life, love, and all the complexities that come with trusting people, showing vulnerability, or being authentic. Through a series of unfortunate and unlikely events, these two Will […]

I was somebody’s something.

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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So John Green does this thing that feels a little weird, and I think it happens in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and other YA books — oh,  Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and it’s a thing I feel like a lot of parents of my age do as well, and I know that at times I am guilty of this as a teacher too. And that’s to try to be the voice in an adolescent’s life to offer up this moment of […]

Famous Last Words

Looking for Alaska by John Green

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Bingo Square: Banned Books There are a few categories on the Bingo board that have looked slightly more homework like to me than others, and I had the feeling Banned Books was going to be one of them.  Fortunately for me, the Top Ten Most Challenged lists of books contain quite a few modern YA novels because of course teachers would want to include current novels to appeal to their students. I had already read a few of them, and some of the choices were […]



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