Summer Book Two: Final Post

Later I met back up with Walker to discuss the book we both have now read. We both got very similar feelings and ideas out of this book, very different from my previous book I read. To Walker what still stands out to him is that he doesn't know how his life will end, and he is not trying to figure it out, he is just endlessly walking into the great perhaps until he reaches something he is very happy with and wants to keep.

I love that, that is exactly how I want to live my life and how I hope to live my life soon. I would say what stands out most to me is the whole "no loose ends" deal. I think that in life you need to make all of your relationships with people okay so that if anything bad were to happen you wouldn't leave on a bad note. With these two things I think this book actually will transform the way I look at life, and more than one that was actually supposed to. I would recommend this book to everybody, even if you don't get anything good out of it, it is still a good read. And while the surface is a piece of cake, there are many layers underneath that experienced readers can try to dig up.

Summer Book Two: Active Blog Two

Let me start this blog off by apologizing for only doing two of these active blogs, but I kind of already finished the book. The "after" section of this book, and the ending of this book, is insane. It goes so fast, it is so good, so filled with action, and honestly life changing. Essentially, the "After" section of this book is when Alaska dies. Yes, she dies. You get to know her so well, you want her and Pudge to be together so well, and then she gets drunk and drives and crashes and dies. Yes, she dies. She crashed her car straight into the back of a police car. Pudge tries to figure out if it was suicide, or an accident, but never actually finds out.

Later on Pudge turns in an essay in which he was answering a question that Alaska had asked. "How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?" He answers by saying that the only way out of this labyrinth is through forgiveness. When you forgive, you can make it out of anything because you can stay sane. This book really made me think about life, and the fact that it can end so quickly and you can leave so many strings untied without even realizing it. It is important to forgive and stay on good pages with people, so neither you or them leaves this world without one another.

Summer Book Two: Active Blog One

This book is incredible. I've been reading it so quickly because I actually want to keep reading. It is very rare I find a book like this, but this is one of them. I think part of it is because on the folio of where I am reading it says "before", and later on in the book(I may have peaked a little bit) it says after. So I am very excited to get to the "after" section of the book. So far the book is a story about a boy named miles who gets transfered to a private preparatory school in Alabama. I love a quote he says before he goes, which is "I go to seek a Great Perhaps". This actually touched me in a way because when I leave for college, and leave my nest in general, I really am searching for a "Great Perhaps". I don't know what Im going for, and I don't know where I will find it or what it will be, but I hope it will be something great, perhaps. (Tried to be funny again, it never works)

At this new school he was made new friends, the Colonel, Alaska, Lara, and Takumi. They are all quite a bit more exciting that Miles(Pudge), smoking cigarettes and drinking on campus. They are giving him the greater perhaps that he always wanted—friends and excitement. However Pudge is in love with Alaska, but she has a boyfriend and therefore can't do anything about, but I can tell she loves him as well. Oh well, we will see with the next blog!

Summer Book Two: Looking For Alaska

The second adult that I really do admire and interviewed is my best friends older brother, Walker. We talked for a while and he is a guy who absolutely loves reading, and said a lot of books have really changed the way he thought about things. However one that he read recently and stuck out more than the others was called Looking For Alaska. It mattered a lot to him because it helped him realize a lot about his life and what he needs to do with it(he said he didn't want to get too in depth because it could give away). However it opened his mind up and showed him what he needed to do, whatever that means Im sure I will find out during the wrap up talk.

Walker said that at the time he read this book he wasn't necessarily going through hard times(that tends to be when people enjoy books the most I have noticed), however he wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his life. He was going into his 3rd year in college when he read it and still didn't know what he wanted to do or where he wanted to be, and this book helped him clear his mind and figure it out.