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A review by eemilycolleen
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
5.0
whew i cried a lot. reading this as a full-fledged adult i’m really thinking — is this the best john green????? it might be! it’s so generous and open-hearted and loving even through its despair and pain and mind-eating anxiety.
sometimes it can be clunky or slick or overly sentimental when books’ endings catapult themselves into the future, yknow, especially the whole “write this down” shtick; but it’s perfect here, i can’t imagine it any other way, and in fact it makes me weep with gratitude to imagine that future for aza, and, of course, for me. i feel very lucky. i feel very grateful. it is a miracle to be here.
“But that's not the point of the story, Holmesy. The point of the story is they built the city anyway, you know? You work with what you have. They had this shit river, and they managed to build an okay city around it. Not a great city, maybe. But not bad. You're not the river. You're the city."
😭
sometimes it can be clunky or slick or overly sentimental when books’ endings catapult themselves into the future, yknow, especially the whole “write this down” shtick; but it’s perfect here, i can’t imagine it any other way, and in fact it makes me weep with gratitude to imagine that future for aza, and, of course, for me. i feel very lucky. i feel very grateful. it is a miracle to be here.
“But that's not the point of the story, Holmesy. The point of the story is they built the city anyway, you know? You work with what you have. They had this shit river, and they managed to build an okay city around it. Not a great city, maybe. But not bad. You're not the river. You're the city."
😭