My Life in…

I liked this book a lot.  I think writing wise John Green has improved with this book.  I don’t know that it deserves the effusive praise it has gotten on many of my listservs or the reactionary slams it has also received (I think this is largely due to the sheer number of people who’ve read it though).  I think John Green creates extremely realistic, memorable teen boys.  I’m not sure he has been successful yet at creating a well-rounded, realistic girl character, although in this book that is clearly not the point.  The girls are meant to be portrayed as ideals and then clearly these images are slowly chipped away.

Grade: A
Book #89 of 2008