wordsofclover's Reviews (2.16k)

Adrian Mole is one of those books that you read when you were younger, probably when you were just entering the teenage years and similarly going through all that teenage angst written about by Mr.Mole in his diary but it is a novel that at any age will have you creased up with laughter. I will always give this 5/5 stars no matter how many times I read it. Thank you for all the good times Adrian Mole, and I will re-visit your diary very soon!

I completely and utterly fell in love with this book!
So we have Lincoln, adorable, geeky Lincoln who takes a job reading people's emails. And then we meet Beth and Jennifer, gal pals who talk about periods, pregnancy, stalking and all sorts of other random, embarrassing and hilarious things only a pair of close women would talk about. At the same time that Lincoln starts to fall for Beth, by just reading her words, so does the reader. She's sympathetic to Jennifer's baby woes, funny, smart, savvy...you can't really blame Lincoln!

One of my favourite things about this book is due to Lincoln's generally unconfident attitude about himself and other geeky things he likes to do (dungeons and dragons?), I couldn't help but imagine him as a lanky, skinnny weed of a guy who might be a bit cute in a certain setting but then he becomes Beth's Cute Guy and her description instantly made him Henry Cavill in my mind. Tall, Hulk Muscular, Quiet, shares his dinners with old ladies(could you get any cuter!!!!)

The ending of this book had my heart explode all over the pages. I wanted to simultaneously throw the book across the room and scream how unfair it was that I didn't get anyone falling in love with me over reading email but also hug the book to my chest and absorb the utterly romantic, pefect relationship that was unfolding.

I just can't handle it. It't too romantic. I also think it should be made into a movie....with Henry Cavill......

1.5 stars
This book is extremely bland and I will admit that it disappointed me. I was expecting a much better and even well told story than what I read.

I feel like all the characters fell short and most were not extremely realistic. The aunt was too cruel to have been getting away with it under the father's nose and Jeanette was too...Mary Sue like I suppose. Everything was too blunt, there didn't seem to be any good description which would have been easy to do seeing as the tale is set in Liverpool. I'm sure there is lots of hustle and bustle to describe to brighten up a story but it was lacking and you definitely miss it.

I really enjoyed this book though I do really enjoy Santa's novels. I have only read two other books of hers but I will be aiming to read them all eventually.

For someone who didn't grow up or as far as I know, spend a lot of time in Ireland, Santa really nailed the atmosphere that can be seen and felt in any small Irish town. The friendliness of locals, the big families, people who know everyone, the judgement, the curiosity, the gossip but all in all, a place full of big hearts and loud laughter.

Ellen comes to Connemara running away from situations at home in London she no longer wants to deal with. She begins to connect with a family she never knew she had in Ireland and finds an even spicer connection with mysterious widower Connor whose wife Caitlin died in a tragic and suspicious lighthouse accident. As Ellen and Connor fall in love, they are unaware that Caitlin's spirit is beginning to grow darker with envy and she will stop at nothing to tear them apart.

This is a good tale, full of love, laughter, irish spirit and even a little bit of fae magic. I would recommend it!!

When Quentin describes personal miracles, he concludes his own as being lucky enough to be Margo Roth Spiegelman's next door neighbour. As long as he can remember knowing her, Q has been in love with Margo. Wild, uncontrollable and flighty, nothing that makes up Margo would fit into Quentin's planned life of stability - graduation, college, marriage, kids...peaceful death at old age.

One night, Q is invited by Margo to take part in one wild night of adventures and then the next day she disappears leaving a paper trail of clues. Q believes Margo left the clues for him and he is determined to find her.

No matter what anyone says, I love all of the character created by John Green, the steady, capable Q, cool and clever Radar, embarrassingly awkward yet lovable Ben, Queen Bee Margo and Lacey, the popular girl with a secret heart of gold.

The plot of this book involving the hidden words underneath the poems of Walt Whitman, the paper stuffed in a door-frame, the comment that was never meant to be discovered about a certain Paper Town, it was all so incredibly laid-out, intense and clever.

What i love about this book is Q's realisation that sometimes unrequited love is a little bit different up close. While he always knew he loved Margo, he does come to realise he only ever really loved the idea of her. He never really knew her. The Margo in his head was very different to the Margo in her own. She needed something bigger than Q, something away from the 'paper town' that had captured her for most of her life. She's definitely someone who would find her own in New York. Anything she had with Q would definitely end up suffocating her....he's just far too normal and safe.

I did feel like there was a major component of Margo that was selfish and mean. She didn't really seem to care about the people she left behind and what they might have thought she was doing to herself. Lacey really did care about Margo, and I loved that she redeemed herself with her relationship with Ben, and proved she wasn't a shallow popular girl like the reader originally thought.

Underneath it all, Paper Towns is far from paper. It's a solid block of teenage angst, discovery and adventure.