Paper Towns: cover to cover

Regardless of lack of feedback (you're all just super shy right? totally) I will continue my efforts to Book Club (v.) this thing! Only a few things to discuss for final post on Paper Towns, and hopefully a decision thereafter on our September Fall read.

1. What main ideas—themes—does the author explore? (Consider the title, often a clue to a theme.) Does the author use symbols to reinforce the main ideas? 
(Has anyone Google searched the dog's surname? *hint hint*)

2. I know there will be different opinions on this one - Is the ending satisfying? If so, why? 
If not, why not...and how would you change it?

3. If you could ask the author a question, what would you ask?  
There's copious interview material that I can scan through to find any answers too!

4. Rate the book! 1-5 with 1 being hated it and 5 being loved it.

I love this read like crazy, with all it's ups and downs and copious amounts of "tip your hat" type of references. I look forward to hearing any input or feedback, especially as we come to a close on our first novel together. Thank you all so much for reading with me. 

On to the next! 

august: Paper Towns by John Green

"Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life–dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge–he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues–and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew."

We have done it! The choice for the August read has been made, and it's a beauty! For the skeptics, try not to let the character names deter you (there is much to be discussed here as we read) as I know Margo Roth Spiegelman was a mouthful for me to start. 

Plan of action: pick up your copy and get reading! 

Then come back and check our page for discussion and questions. I will update weekly and every Sunday can be our online "meet and chat". If this day doesn't work out for some, we will take advantage of the glorious internet and chat at any time in a comment section. A slow and easy start for all of us; no time limits on chapters or any of that, just read what you can, enjoy the novel, and meet with the book club once a week!

Happy Reading! 

first: Welcome

Look at you.

You have stumbled across this little book club blog and made my day. Hi.

I’m not entirely sure how, when or what this little personal corner of my internet will grow up to be, but I believe in it and will feed it and cuddle it and be proud to watch it grow.

My goal is to start a little following or community, if you will, of readers that follow along with my journey through the world of books. This will, more often than not, be on the Young Adult Fiction path with the occasional stray into another genre if there is a novel elsewhere just demanding to be read. I plan to hit the classics, all ends of the young adult fiction spectrum, and I'd like to poll my followers’ opinions on reads we can venture through together.

(Full disclosure: I am an absolute Fitzgerald junkie and I'm sure it will present itself sooner or later) 

I am hoping to encourage the start of a snug community, so any and all feedback is encouraged. I would love to eventually be reading along the same timeline as my followers, something we have chosen together.

We can have lively discussions with cups of tea and cozy blankets.
All the things a book club does, right?
How would I know?


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