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“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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I’ve read a lot of YA the last few weeks and constantly found myself comparing them to the YA master, John Green, so the natural next step was to reread some Green’s books. I really enjoyed Turtles All the Way Down when I read it the first go around during CBR9. Back in 2017 John Green hadn’t published anything in over five years so perhaps in my hunger for new J.G. YA I was not as critical as I could have been and posted an effusive five star review that, while I don’t regret it, would probably make some edits to […]

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6/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:58 |

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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Aza Holmes doesn’t have a lot of friends, and her best friend Daisy, a gregarious and outgoing fan fiction writer, sometimes finds her a bit exhausting. This is not surprising, as Aza struggles with anxiety and OCD. When local billionaire Russell Davis Picket goes missing and there is a reward offered for news of his whereabouts, Daisy remembers that Aza knows his son. Daisy orchestrates a scenario so that Aza can reconnect with Davis, who she hasn’t seen for a few years. Aza and Davis met at a camp for children who’d lost parents. Aza’s father died, as did Davis’ […]

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9/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:79 |

Episode 1-31: Just the Beasts Under Your Bed, In Your Closet, In Your Head

The Golem and the Jinni, Serpentine, The Sellout, Turtles All the Way Down, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, Kings of the Wyld, The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Helene Wecker, Laurell K. Hamilton, Paul Beatty, John Green, Lydia Millet, Nicholas Eames, Jason Arnopp

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Episode 1-31: Just The Beasts Under Your Bed, In Your Closet, In Your Head Wherein I review: 119. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker 120. Serpentine (Anita Blake #26) by Laurell K. Hamilton 121. The Sellout by Paul Beatty 122. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green 123. Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet 124. Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 125. The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp Helene Wecker gives us a historical love story between two servant myths. Laurell K. Hamilton comes back and sets Anita Blake against every sh–ty person […]

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8/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:125 |

It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

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CBR10Bingo – So Popular! Here’s my confession: I don’t think I liked this novel very much. For starters, I am not a huge fan of YA books in general. I appreciate them in a lot of ways, and I own plenty and supply them to my teenagers readily. So mostly it’s a matter of me not choosing to read them much. And this book is perfectly good. It’s readable, it’s charming, it’s smart; but I also think it’s ham-fisted at times and manipulative throughout. Given that it leans on the concept of “Cancer Perks” throughout, ie the little extra things […]

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8/8/2018 's CBR10 Review No:297 |

Nothing to do with turtles, really

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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I don’t profess to be the picture of mental health, but overall I’d say I don’t have a lot of experience with depression, anxiety, or any other mental disorders. Maybe it’s my WASPy suppressive tendencies? In our YA book club, the woman who suggested John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down described it as “the best depiction of anxiety” she’d ever seen, so I was intrigued. Turtles tells the story of Aza, a young woman dealing (poorly, but trying) with serious anxiety and OCD. Aza’s best friend Daisy convinces her to help discover the location of a missing local billionaire […]

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6/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

“We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here…”

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely…” It’s hard to believe that The Fault in Our Stars came out five years ago! I didn’t even realize how much I missed John Green until I started Turtles All the Way Down. Maybe I never mentioned this before, but I love John Green. All of his books are fantastic, as you can see from my reviews of: The Fault in Our Stars, An Abundance of Katherines, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Paper Towns (I have also read Looking for […]

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2/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:1 |

8: Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

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It’s well-documented that I am neither a Rainbow Roweller nor a John Greener. I typically don’t find the earnest-hipster-loner-pop culture throwback to be all that appealing of a trope, which explains where some of my dislike originates. I had no intention of checking out Turtles All the Way Down, until I heard a Fresh Air interview that Terry Gross conducted with Green. And it was compelling. I had no idea he had OCD, and hearing him discuss the writing process and applying it to Aza convinced me that I needed to read the book. Aza is our protagonist, and she […]

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2/2/2018 's CBR10 Review No:8 |

A Book about Teenagers (who Happen to Have Cancer)

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

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The Fault in our Stars is not a book I ever expected to read. I knew so much about it peripherally. I knew the author John Green through his Mental Floss videos (not discovering the equally educational and more interesting Crash Course videos until later). I had known Shailene Woodley would play Hazel and was utterly confused as I saw her act next to her film brother and future film lover Ansel Elgort in Divergent. Out of sheer curiosity, I read the Wiki page for the movie never expecting to watch it nor read its source. But here I am, having read […]

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1/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:4 |


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