Looking for Alaska

This blog cycle, I read a book called Looking for Alaska by John Green. I ended up really liking it, so I decided to write my blog post about it (also I didn't really read much else). It is a realistic fiction book about a boy named Miles (nicknamed Pudge) who decides to go to the Culver Creek boarding school, inspired by the last words (he is interested in people's last words) of François Rabelais about "a great perhaps". At the boarding school, he befriends his roommate, Chip (nicknamed "The Colonel"), who introduces him to a girl named Alaska. Miles and Alaska become friends and have multiple conversations about "the labyrinth of suffering" (mentioned in Simón Bolívar's last words). 

Even though this book has been banned and challenged many times (there is some sexual content, also drug use and suicide although that is kind of not specified it is hard to explain without spoiling part of the book), I would recommend this book. One of the things that I like about it is the character development, we can definitely see how much Miles has changed from the start to the end of this book, and there aren’t really one-dimensional characters (if there are then I forgot about them because they're not at all relevant 💀).

Thank you for reading my blog!

Juni