Introduction

        For my blog reading groups I am reading Looking For Alaska by John Green. 

        
       John Green instantly became my favorite writer with The Fault in Our Stars. That statement remains true. Looking for Alaska is an AMAZING book.The following comes straight from the back of the book: “before. Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps”(Francois Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. after. Nothing is ever the same.”

      Looking for Alaska is about a group of teenagers who quickly become friends and try to find themselves through sometimes unethical conventions such as drugs and experimentation. This book is brilliantly written. If you’re looking for a boy meets girl and falls in love and lives happily ever after….this is NOT the book for you. It has been very easy for me to put a face to both Pudge and Alaska while I'm reading. John Green does a great job at descriptive details and pulling you in. I definitely recommend reading books by John Green. I believe that this was his first book and I look forward to buying all of the books that he’s written after reading this one. Looking for Alaska is so far inspiring, smart, sad, funny, and thought provoking. Please give this one a try.