First, this review is sort of temporary so I can get my thoughts out before they fade away. I’ll probably be re-reading soon. I want to have a better chance to digest it, since the first time I read it over Thanksgiving weekend, I had my mom and sister and their HGTV/Hallmark Christmas movie obsession as a constant in the background and it was very distracting. I always have these grand plans of reading and writing over Thanksgiving weekend, and it NEVER happens because my […]
English puts us beneath the stars
“My whole life I thought I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along” Aza is dealing with anxiety. Her thoughts spiral out of control, invade her mind, and make life hard. Still, she goes to school, she keeps up with her friends and tries her best to do what her therapist tells her. Her friend Daisy convinces her to take a trip down the river when an old childhood’s billionaire […]
To this the little old lady crowed triumphantly. “It’s no use, Mr. James – it’s turtles all the way down.”
Well, who doesn’t love John Green. The man has some special ability to tap into other peoples’ minds, and it’s hard not to find yourself in at least some small way in each of his novels. As a person who suffers from anxiety and OCD, I found myself in a big way in Turtles All the Way Down. “We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn’t matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even […]
“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
This is my second time reviewing The Fault in Our Stars and it’s been reviewed countless times on Cannonball so I’m not going to do a whole plot summary. What I need is for more of you to read Turtles All The Way Down so I can argue the following (potentially controversial) point: Turtles All The Way Down is better than The Fault in Our Stars. This isn’t to say TFIOS is a bad book or even undeserving of the 5 Star rating I gave it 4 years ago and again today. It is simply […]