Quentin “Q” Jacobsen is a fairly average, if overly anxious teenager. He has lived next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman for most of his life, and been in love with her for as long as he can remember. Margo is one of the most popular girls in school, has a nearly legendary reputation. Of course, she also barely seems to know that Quentin or his friends Ben and Radar exist, but that doesn’t stop Quentin from dreaming of her from afar. So when Margo climbs […]
Big Changes Make for Good Reading
The longer I sit with my reactions to Paper Towns by John Green the more and more it grows on me. Normally I would have finished this book and had the review up within 24 hours, but life was not cooperating this weekend so instead its been nearly three days since I finished the book before I’ve sat down to examine my thoughts. They are many, and they are varied, which is why I think I’m sticking with a 3.5 rating rounded down to 3. […]
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.” I’ve been sitting on this one for about a month and a half now, maybe longer, and I think I’m ready to admit something. I rated The Fault in Our Stars five stars immediately after finishing it, and I only rated Paper Towns four and a half stars . . . and yet, I’m fairly certain I actually like Paper Towns […]
pAper TownS
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman discovered a dead body when they were nine, after that last adventure their friendship fizzled and Q was reduced to worshiping Margo from afar. A month before high school graduation Margo cracks open a window and (literally) climbs back into his life for a night of revenge. The next day Margo isn’t at school, she has run away before and always left clues- this time […]