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After his friend commits suicide, smart misfit Charlie is trying to learn to "participate" in life. He befriends a group of interesting older kids who introduce him to partying, but also respect his sensitivity. In letters that Charlie writes to an anonymous stranger, he talks about his family, his friends, and his complicated, often overwhelming, feelings about growing up. Eventually, his longtime crush tells him that he "can't just sit there and put everybody's life ahead of yours and think that counts as love" and he slowly learns to be present in his life. from: [] This book is one of my favorite book of all time because of the first time I read it. I had been having a tough time in life recently and could totally relate to Charlie's feelings of fear of the unknown. Charlie is new to high school and so was I, Charlie dealt with new friendships and loss of old ones in a way that I understood really well. Also the music references made in this book is the type of music I love so that was awesome! This book has helped me solve problems in my everyday life and is on my night stand at all times. hands down best book ever.
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All from the point of view of Miles Halter, 16 year old, a skinny, nerdy guy. He is friendless, lonely, and his greatest quirk is to read biographies in search of last words. François Rabelais’s is: //“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”// and is in search of his Great Perhaps that Miles decides to attend the Culver Creek Boarding School where he hopes to start anew. There he makes friends with his roommate Chip, aka “the Colonel” (who immediately starts calling Miles, Pudge), a guy named Takumi and their best friend, a girl called Alaska Young. Alaska is the wild, beautiful, intelligent, moody, mysterious, unattainable girl whom Miles falls irrevocably in love with. from: [] This was the second John Green book I had read and was the first book of his that got published. I had previously read The Fault In Our Stars which made me cry ( no shame.) and moved me. I looked online at his other books and this one caught my attention. This book deals with love in all ways and the things we do for the people we love. Alaska and Miles's relationship intruiged me because it reminds me of when someone who's taken shows feeling for you ( hasn't it happened to ever girl?) which is something that has happened to me. I also enjoyed seeing Miles change. I was at a point in my life where a lot about me changed and the book made me realize that sometimes change can be good and this book helped me embrace it. Over all I was touched from the begining to the very end by the depth of the story.
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=So good! It's amazing how much the events in the book effected my mood! The whole seccond part of the book, I didn't even want to interact with anyone. Really powerful book- definitely one of my favorites!!! Sophie 10 pts 10/09=

//Breakfast at Tiffany's// tells the story of Holly Golightly. It is told by a never named narrator that once knew Holly when he lived above her in an old brownstone apartment building in New York City. In the time that they knew each other, they went from strange neighbors to the closest of confidants. The exposition of the story reveals that it has been fifteen years since the last time the narrator has seen Holly. In those fifteen years he says, "It never occurred to me to write about Holly Golightly, and probably it would not now except for a conversation I had with Joe Bell that set the whole memory of her in motion again" (3). Joe Bell is the proprietor of his own bar on Lexington Avenue, the narrator and Holly used to visit the bar as often as seven times a day, but not always for a drink: "during the war a private telephone was hard to come by," the narrator says (4). The beginning of the story is really the end. It is fifteen years after the events that the narrator describes have taken place. The narrator, now an accomplished writer, returns to Joe Bell's bar and his thoughts are flooded with the bittersweet memories of Holly Golightly. from: [] When I was 8 years old my birthday gift from my father that year was this movie, Breakfast At Tiffany's. Of course as a little girl I was enchanted by Holly/Audrey's class and charm. I wanted to grow up and be just like her. She has been my role model since then and when one bad day I discovered this book on the wrong shelf in the library it completly changed my day. I read the whole thing that day. The book is great because Holly is afraid of the real world but doesnt let that slow her down. She is still my role model and I often find my self saying WHAT WOULD HOLLY GOLIGHTLY DO?!?!. doesn't everybody...? hahaha.
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checked by Mrs. J 9/28/12 45/45 points