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Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide attempt
I don’t know how it took me so long to read this as a life long John Green fan but I deeply regret that I had not read this particular collection of words sooner. John did what he has always done well - balanced impeccable descriptions of teenage awkwardness with soul destroying grief. Perfection.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Sexual content, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Classism
Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Bullying, Vomit
Minor: Fatphobia, Misogyny
The theme of the book. The question that hung over the whole 221-page novel about the main character, Miles Halter, trying to find just that.
I won’t sugarcoat it. My journey in reading this book is very mixed. The first half of the novel was hard for me to get through at times. I took some days of not reading it and was considering I might drop it, but there was a point where something about it just hooked me. Was it the mystery of Alaska? Was it me finding myself frustrated with the characters and just wanting to finish it because I had made it so far into it as it was?
Not sure, but there was something about this story that just grabbed me, also. I liked the character of Alaska Young. I liked the main group and the side characters. It was very John Green in the sense of these characters being witty, insightful, simultaneously enlightened and ignorant, and just this overall message of hope.
This book came out when I was in high school, but I didn’t read it until now. I wished I had read it when I was in high school, but with the perspective of both a teenager and an adult who has made his own mistakes, I appreciate the themes of hope. Because we all seek that great perhaps of life. The Great Perhaps that gives us purpose. Some of us don’t find it and some of us find then lose it.
I’ve had my issues with John Green in a number of his books, but I thoroughly enjoyed this and it should be read by everyone at least once. It should be experienced by everyone at least once. It’s thought-provoking and insightful and heartwarming, despite the themes of grief.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol
Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic friendship
Minor: Toxic relationship, Medical content, Classism
Graphic: Death, Suicide
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny