While I cannot imagine him giving money to anyone, I did think you otherwise captured the feel of going to his house. If I told you his dads name, you would likely know it. I grew up as lower-middle class, and I had that one super rich friend. but again seemed to lend to the feel of authenticity to my old mind. intimate parts of the book did create an awkward bit in the car. I think that those lend the feel of authenticity that other more plastic characters of other books do not have. The 18 yo likes it but thought some of the characters were annoying. I listened to this on a cross country trip with my kids, 16 and 18. In retrospect, it is amazing that this project did not take 5 volumes.
I can see some of my reactions to the book in the characters reaction in the book. It also explores other people's reactions to anxiety, from the trivial to the deep. But it makes me a better person to see the struggles of others. My brain naturally squirms away from this pain. It is hard to get through some of the sections. This is a tall order, but I think he might have been successful. It is like John Green attempted to boil down a young life time's worth of 'most poignant explanations' of anxiety, and mashed them into one book. The story line is a fine foil to tell the real message: It sucks to have an anxiety distorter. It sounds choppy and halting, as if the text is being read by a first grader picking her way through a sentence, and it consistently threw me out of the story. Though she's clearly capable of reading with feeling, she has an annoying verbal tic of over-pronouncing words, particularly 'to' (whether used with infinitive verbs-to go, to think, to eat, etc.-or as a preposition). Unfortunately, Kate Rudd's narration robbed this book of being a four or five star read for me. I admire his deft hand in creating adolescent characters: they're silly and insecure one moment, dramatic and self-importantly profound the next. As usual, Green has the YA mindset down pat. For too many OCD sufferers, particularly young ones, diagnosis and medication remain months or years away. I wish Green hadn't written Aza Holmes as already seeing a therapist and in possession of prescribed medication, because Aza's resistance to taking her meds makes her anxieties not just a curse, but also a choice. Narrator's delivery distracted throughoutĪs someone with both first-hand and family experience of OCD, I found John Green's depiction of his main character's mental struggles disturbingly familiar. Or listen - because the narrator is wonderful. Anyhow, the bottom line is: read this book. But the parents aren't really the focus of the story (which I also love because it means I get to "be" a teenager again). As always, in John Green books, the adolescent/parent relationships are healthy and "normal". And so is the recognition that there is reason to hope. The shrink scenes were funny but also realistic. I know how both enlightening and healing the written word can be. Thank you, John, for the vulnerability required to put these thoughts to paper. I know, from reading the "glowing book reviews" than John Green knows of what he writes. Being inside the head of a young woman with an anxiety disorder was both enlightening and anxiety producing. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.Īs a psychologist for teens, as a mom, and as a person, I loved this book.
So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis.Īza is trying. John Green, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.Īza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. Club, Bustle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more! Named a best book of the year by: The New York Times, NPR, TIME, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, A.V. “So surprising and moving and true that I became completely unstrung.” ( The New York Times )
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