An Abundance of Katherines

An Abundance of Katherines

John Green

228 Pages

"You can't live with the idea that someone might leave... You're not being a good friend or a good boyfriend or whatever, because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you."

Colin is a child-prodigy turning teenage-nothing, and that thought scares him. He has just been broken up with by the nineteenth Katherine he's dated, and that, combined with his nothing-ness, is too much for him to handle, so he and his best friend Hassan head out on a road trip, trying to figure out... Life. They end up stopping in a dead town, where Colin works to become more than a prodigy, works to find out there are more than Katherines.

This wasn't my favorite John Green novel, but I did still like it a lot. I like the confusion that Colin has about growing up, about being extremely intelligent as a child, but not knowing where that will take him in the future, if anywhere, because sometimes I feel a lot like that. (I'm not saying I'm a child prodigy or anything, because I'm definitely not) Just, the uncertainty of the future, and the need to be something really spectacular is so relateable. And I just think of the very last line, because it's how I want to feel too...

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"Authors never include the whole story; they just get to the point. Colin thought the truth should matter as much as the point, and he figured that was why he couldn't tell good stories."
-John Green