3.5 stars Miles Halter doesn’t really have any friends in his Florida high school and persuades his parents to send him to the same boarding school in Alabama that his father once attended. When he gets there, he is quickly included in the already established circle of friends including his roommate Chip, usually referred to as the Colonel; the intense and unpredictable Alaska, whom Miles falls in love with pretty much at first sight; and Takumi, who seems like the most sane of the group. […]
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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” I have a John Green problem. Actually, badkittyuno and I have a John Green problem. Green is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors considering I hadn’t heard of him prior to this year. I think I liked Alaska as much as I did because I read it after the distinctly disappointing An Abundance of Katherine’s. Miles is leaving home for boarding school to escape the bullies and his lack of friends. At Culver […]