Book #63: Looking for Alaska by John Green

I loved John Green's other book, The Fault in Our Stars, so much that I decided to look up his other books and read some of them. Looking for Alaska was also highly rated online, so I picked it up at the library and plowed through it during a few feeding sessions. It's another young adult novel, and like The Fault in Our Stars, it deals with some pretty heavy philosophical and life issues in a really normal, real-life way. Miles, aka Pudge, is a sixteen-year-old kid who heads off in search of "The Great Perhaps" at a totally new (boarding) school in Alabama. He gets introduced to a lot of new experiences and meets some new friends, including Alaska Young, an extremely intense and intriguing (and hot) girl who makes everything more exciting, in good and bad ways. SPOILER ALERT: However, halfway through the school year, Alaska gets killed in a drunk driving accident (herself being the drunk driver) and Miles and the rest of his friends spend the rest of the year trying to figure out what happened to her, dealing with the guilt of letting her go, and trying to figure out how to live without her. I really like John Green's characters that he develops--they're smart but normal kids who make mistakes and are learning how to deal with them in the real world. This book was definitely a great read.