#BookTalk- Paper Towns by John Green

 Paper Towns by John Green

The time has finally come to #BookTalk about Paper Towns. I choose to read the book on a Playaway, because A) I thought it would be faster B) I am doing this walk/run every morning and I thought I would listen to it while I workout. I was wrong on both accounts A) it took me forever, it seems, to finish B) I didn't even listen to it when I workout! The problem with it is that you need headphones, or like that kind of hook up, so I listen to it in a car and during my "workout" times. I don't drive very far, and workouts don't really last that long. Well all in all I finally finished the book picking my brother up from school. When that music came on at the end, I was like finally! So now I am able to finally #BookTalk about this book!

Paper Towns is a book about a senior boy, Quentin, a senior in high school, trying to understand a girl, Margo, he always idolized since he was little. One day she disappears and he uses the clues she left behind to find her. As he tried to piece the clues together he realizes that he truly never knew her at all. This book has such great quotable moments and just so hilarious dialogue! Really brings you back to senior year of high school when you were young, free and infinite.

Plot

I don't know if it was because I was reading this book in parts but the section when
Quentin is trying to find clues to find out where Margo was. AHH Forever and a century long. But I did love it. It was very interesting everything seemed to point to Margo's death but it was the opposite. It really was pointing to Margo's life. It was surprising just like Margo herself. The plot of discovering Margo, really allowed for Quentin to discover what he wanted from life, and from the people around him. It was a truly captivating novel.

Characters

Fanart of Margo

Margo. Oh Margo how you are so difficult to understand. Margo is like many of us lost in a sea of synthetic-ness. As we try to discover ourselves, and how people see us and what that means for our lives. Do we become just like the people we hate or are we someone else? Are we all truly paper people? Well Margo you are still a mystery to me even after I finished the novel. You are so daring and brave but also very confused. Margo seems like she has the world wrapped around her finger, as if she is in control but she could not be anymore trapped, suffocated by paper towns. Margo allows us to realize that we truly never actually know people. We can go a whole lifetime without knowing anyone at all. Margo is not a balloon. She is not paper. She is a person.

Fanart

I should talk about Quentin, since he is the narrator after all. But through him we learn about Margo, and Margo allows Q to experience different things, to better understand himself and the girl he adores. Q allows Margo to believe in something different even if just for a moment. Q you aren't half bad.




All in All

John Green always adds quotable works to literature! You got to love it! Even though realistic fiction is my least favorite genre, John Green does a great job at telling his story of mundane lives that could pretty much be our own. Even though long, it was worth reading in the end! I understand why people love this book. After reading one of his books, I feel like I learn something new about the world and the people who live in it. Now I can finally say yes,"I have read Paper Towns"