Imperfect Perfictionist

Author - John Green Genre - Young-Adult No. of Pages - 304 Year of Publication - 2017 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ Finally, that I have got my reading appetite back, how could I not read the latest John Green novel? I certainly had to. To be very honest, this book confused me a bit. If I look into the detailed and rather heart-felt description of the thoughts of an anxiety patient, Aza Holmes (the protagonist), I feel Green has given his best to it. No doubt, I could very well relate at some points because I also suffer from mild OCD symptoms. To a normal person, Aza might seem to be very crazy, but I could understand her thoughts and they didn't seem unnatural at all (even though bizarre). That is where Green never fails, the charactersq he creates are very relatable and mostly adorable, even though flawed in numerous ways. Aza's illness keeps on worsening throughout the book. At one point I felt like she would commit suicide and I so not wanted this to happen. For once, ...

Author - Gayle Forman Genre - Young Adult No. of Pages  - 210 Year of Publication - 2009 Rating - ❤️❤️ ❤️ I expected this book to be quite moving and emotional, a book that would make me cry and laugh at the same time and the words of which would seep into my mind. I am not cold-blooded, but this book couldn't make me cry.  You have to believe that I cry a lot over fictional characters. I did cry while reading The Notebook and Me Before You and The Fault In Our Stars and several other books. And I expected the same to happen while reading this book because it has this death thing hanging all over it.  Mia is just the girl next door with an intense love for classical music and cello. She is 17, has loving parents and grandparents and a cute little brother, Teddy. Everything is just about normal till one morning. The morning when her family decides to go on a drive and an unfortunate accident plunges Mia through an impossible and exhausting turn of events. M...

Author - Ann Brashares Genre - Young-Adult/Fantasy/Romance No. of Pages - 324 Year of Publication - 2010 Rating - ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Oh my goodness, this book is pure magic. I had been longing to read this book for a really long time and finally I read it. And the wait was totally worth it. If you have even a speck of interest (if not belief) in the concept of reincarnation, please read this book. I can guarantee, you won't be disappointed. I don't remember how I came across this book, maybe through Pinterest. But when I read the plot summary, I knew I have to read this book for sure.  Somehow, I also knew that this book won't disappoint me. The starting of this book is somewhat slow, for a few pages you might not be persuaded to read further but once you get to the core, there's no coming back. I found myself fervently turning the pages always thinking 'then what happened?' I was so lost in this book, I just couldn't put it down. The protagonist of...

Authors - Maureen Johnson, John Green, Lauren Myracle Genre - Young-Adult No. of Pages - 354  Year of Publication - 2008 Rating - ❤️❤️ This book is a triple-trouble. It is divided into three parts, actually three stories. The first part is written by Maureen Johnson, second part by John Green and third by Lauren Myracle. Picking up this book was a consequence of being a John Green fan, and the sad part is, I least liked his part (the second part of the book). Here is the short review: First Part - OK Second part - Kind of OK Third Part - OK The first story is about a girl named Jubilee, yes that's right. And I couldn't understand why was there so much of fuss about her name throughout the book.  Jubilee has to embark an unplanned journey to Florida when her parents are jailed for some riot at some stupid Flobie showroom, and she is bound to go because she has no other option. The train she boards stops at Gracetown and she can't go any forward because...

Author - John Green Genre - Young-Adult No. of Pages - 305 Year of Publication - 2008 Rating - ❤️❤️ Paper Towns are basically, copyright traps which are shown on maps but don't exist actually. I really wanted to like this book after reading The Fault In Our Star s but I couldn't. I kept on reading it till the end with a flickering hope that I would find some twist or just something interesting, which I couldn't figure out. No twists, no turns. Just a straight story. In his pre-adolescence years, the protagonist Quentin "Q" Jacobsen with his friend and neighbor Margo Roth Speigelman, discovers a corpse of some local man who had committed suicide. Fast forward nine years, both of them are nearing their high school graduation but have lost all contacts and then suddenly, one night Margo appears at Quentin's window. Margo has a plan. She wants to take revenge from the people who have used her or been untruthful or bitchy about her. She has the whole pl...

Author - John Green Genre - Young-Adult/Romance No. of Pages - 313 Year of Publication - 2012 Rating -❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ So, this book is one of those heartbreaking novels which will keep on breaking your heart every few pages and you still keep reading it collecting the pieces of your broken heart time and time again. I actually started my 'full-fledged' reading marathon from this book. It was the first novel that I read properly without giving up in the middle of it.  I just couldn't.  The characters that John Green has created are so so adorable, you can't not fall in love with them. As most people know this book revolves around two cancer patients who fall in love and the way they make life beautiful, something to be cherished, for each other. But the most important fact is that it's not just about cancer, it's much more. It includes travelling, laughing, crying, loving others and also yourself, and above all embracing life as it happens to be served on y...

Author - Jay Asher Genre - Young-Adult No. of Pages - 288 Year of Publication - 2007 Rating - ❤️❤️❤️❤️ "Everything affects everything." This one is my favorite quote from this book. Despite being simple it conveys a deep meaning, the agonizing truth of life. This book brings into light the darker side of high school which includes bullying, comparisons, breaking of trust and friendships. I had read somewhere that the high school students these days suffer from the same amount of anxiety as the patients in mental asylums did in the 1950s, I always wondered if it's actually true and after reading this book I am sure it is. Clay finds a strange package on his doorstep with his name written on it. What he finds on opening the package are several cassettes recorded by Hannah Baker, one of his schoolmates and his first love. Hannah had committed suicide two weeks before Clay finds the package and it is rather strange. The cassettes describe thirteen reasons because ...

Author - Jennifer Niven Genre - Young Adult/Romance No. of Pages - 400 Year of Publication - 2015 Rating - ❤️❤️❤️ Recently, I read this YA novel and it was a good read. Instead of being just a young-adult novel, it gives you a sneak peek into the depth and seriousness of the mental illness the protagonist, Theodore Finch faces. He is portrayed as a complete 'freak' as called by his schoolmates. But no one knows about the damage that has occurred inside his brain, his body, and above all inside his soul. Violet Markey is an outgoing, carefree, ambitious and adventurous person until one evening. The evening when she loses her sister in a car accident, and nothing is same for her again. She blames herself for the accident and every small thing like someone's laugh or someone's eyes remind her of her sister Eleanor.  They meet at the top of school bell tower and their lives are no more the same. Violet learns how important it is to live life at the moment r...