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An Abundance of Katherines

I just finished this book by John Green that I got for Christmas. It's about this former child prodigy named Colin. He's dated (and been dumped by) 19 girls, all named Katherine. Just after his high school graduation, he gets dumped by Katherine XIX, who he's convinced was the love of his life. To shake him out of his depression, his (hilarious) best friend Hassan convinces him to go on a road trip, and madness ensues (I kind of just always wanted to use that phrase. There's not that much madness).

If I were to describe my feelings towards the book in terms of math (if you read the book, you'll see why math is appropriate), I would say they were like a segment of a downward facing parabola, where x is how far I am through the book and y is my enjoyment of the book. The graph is entirely in the first quadrant. To say that in non-mathy terms: in the beginning, I wasn't so sold on this book. For starters, I didn't like the cover. By the middle, I loved it. I didn't like the end so much. I think I generally place too much emphasis on endings, but this one felt a little too perfect. The middle, though; the middle was wonderful. It was funny and contained all kinds of true interesting facts, and there were some lines in there that I had to stop and reread a couple times because they were so well-worded. The characters were real and entertaining, and I thought Colin was totally relateable, despite the fact that I am not a former child prodigy who has been dumped by 19 Katherines. I give it 8 pretzel bites.

KAY
Okay so I (TEE) gave this to KAY for an X-mas present and of course i had to read also. I have read all of John Green's books. He as a fact is a really good writer. Also this is my favorite book of his. Mostly because of the premise. 9 pretzel bites. That is my short paragraph.
TEE