I’m into Young Adults lately. I’m reading a Will Leitch entitled Catch, with blurbs from Ned Vizzini and John Green (I have yet to find his copy of Looking for Alaska), the canonical Y.A. writers (though I haven’t read any book they’ve written, I’ve been hearing a lot from them). These books are just a light read, yeah, but for teenagers like me who’s such a sucker for confusion, rebellion, alcohol, even drugs–the simple ecstaties of doing things that are legally wrong (and I must admit that)–it’s altogether a different feeling.
So maybe I was taken away by the cover (it’s appeals to me like every other masterfully-covered Y.A. books) but really, the blurbs got me reeling to buy it for PHP140 at Booksale. In Booksale terms, man, it’s expensive (imagine, I recently bought a Toni Morrison hardbound for PHP20).
I’m also reading Shakespeare’s Othello (required for my Lit class) and it’s just neat. I can’t say anything bad about it since it’s supposed to be good, and it’s good, don’t get me wrong. It’s just dragging. Yeah, that’s probably the right term for it. Draaaaagging.
Anyway, here’s a quote from one of John Green’s books. I got this from Tumblr. :)
Gawd, it reminds me of Catcher in the Rye a lot.
August 24, 2009 at 5:10 pm, filed under Books, books, books. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
wow. mahanap nga yan. im still young at heart. lol.
@Thescud: It’s a good read, nonetheless. But very light. It’s the kind of a book you could read while waiting for your class or in the bus or something. :P
wala akong mahanap na e-book…. (LOL).. ang loser ko.
Wow, the cover is awesome! And I do judge a book by it’s cover also. Haha.
I saw that quote floating in Tumblr too, I’ve also been looking for that book ever since.
catcher in the rye-ish, indeed. meron ba nito sa NBS?
@Lio: Haven’t seen it on their shelves. :(
@Lei: :) Mahirap nang maghanap ng e-book lately.