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but today welcome to a new book of the
month video where we are finally talking
about turtles all the way down by John
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let's get into this video this is going
to be a spoiler free review of this book
in my other videos they've been more of
like autobiography type book so I feel
like I could talk a little bit more
about what happens near the end of the
book but this is not this is a why a
fiction book I don't want to ruin it for
anybody who hasn't read it yet I've had
this book to read since October since
John Hank green came to New York City on
tour for the turtles all the way down
tour and I've been waiting to read this
just because like I know how I get when
I read John Green books so if you didn't
know or have not watched any of my other
videos I am a nerdfighter in a
nerdfighter since I was like 14 and John
Green is a huge reason why I make
youtube videos and why I love reading
and why I love a lot of things that are
a big part of my cultural life so for me
Turtles all the way down to something
I've been waiting for for years since
The Fault in Our Stars and I was so
excited when John Green announced he was
writing another book I was so excited to
get started reading it there was also a
period of time in high school where I
would just reread John Green's books
over and over for about a year I
definitely talked about it in a video
that I made in high school also I think
it's very fitting that I'm wearing my
Butler University shirt today my sister
went to Butler University and at my
sister's graduation John Green was the
commencement speaker and I've made a
video about that as well when I was in
high school and it was so cool getting
to be in the same
as him so there's a lot of things in my
life that John Green is important to the
thing that I found really interesting
about Turtles all the way down was that
I had a lot of trouble getting sucked
into the book like I usually do with
John Green's books not that I didn't
really love the story I just had a hard
time sitting down with the characters
and really connecting with them at first
Bill Grayson Will Grayson is one of my
favorite John Green books and I read
that book every single day and I relate
a lot to all the characters and I want
to play Jane in the movie version of it
if it ever becomes a movie so that's how
much I thought I would get sucked into
this book and I was surprised when I
didn't I was I kept reading the book I
definitely connected with Aiza and Daisy
and Davis and all the characters that
are in the book but I still loved all
the characters loved reading all their
stories and really enjoyed it
if you don't know what turtles all the
way down is about 16 year old eizan ever
intended to pursue the mystery a
fugitive billionaire Russell Pinkett but
there's $100,000 reward at stake and her
best and most fearless friend Daisy's
eager to investigate so together they
navigate the short distance and broad
divides a separate thumb from Russell
Pickett's Simon Davis
paisa is trying she is trying to be a
good daughter a good friend a good
student and maybe even a good detective
while also living within the
ever-tightening spiral of her own
thoughts and his long awaited return
john green the acclaimed award-winning
author of Looking for Alaska and The
Fault in Our Stars shares a the story
with shattering unflinching clarity in
this brilliant novel of love resilience
and the power of lifelong friendship a
big thing that's present throughout this
book is eases thought spirals through
her anxiety it was really interesting to
read these sectors of the book because
my mind kind of gets like that sometimes
as well when I get anxious or worried
about a lot of things that are going on
in my life I kind of jump to all these
different extreme thoughts and I feel
like everything's kind of getting stuck
in this weird twisty thing that I don't
like and I have to take control of the
situation kind of like how a zit does
though I was reading these thoughts
spirals throughout the book I thought it
was really interesting that I read these
sections of the book faster than I read
other sections to me I felt like I was
kind of getting stuck in that thought
spiral with ease and feeling like I had
to go faster and faster through it to
get to the end point of it and figure
out where the end of that thought spiral
would be I don't know if that's how John
Green wanted those sections of the books
be read but for me it helped me I don't
know kind of feel more connected to ease
in that way because I felt like I was
getting stuck in the
not spirals with her and I was
understanding her perspective more on
what those thought spirals are there's
one thought spiral in particular on
pages 152 through 153 that I thought was
the most interesting because you watch a
SCID evolved from this joyous moment
that she's having and watch it kind of
fall apart a dissension from
this joy that she's having into like the
fear and the anxiety that she has all
the time and that one in particular I
was like oh my god this makes me feel
like really really anxious because I'm
feeling the fear and the worry that
she's getting a big message that comes
through throughout the book is finding
the hopefulness through mental illness
John Green even says it in the last
sentence of the acknowledgement in the
book that last sentence of the
acknowledgement is there is hope even
when your brain tells you there isn't I
liked reading that throughout the book
because it shows that mental illness is
something that you have to work through
and deal with but there is hope at the
end of the tunnel even though you can
feel like there isn't just in the
general sense of the writing of the book
John Green is my favorite author and he
just has such an amazing way with
language that I just absolutely love and
it's still in this book it's in all of
his books John Green knows how to craft
the perfect metaphors like it's
unbelievable how amazing he is at this
I'm gonna read this one cuz it doesn't
really do any spoilery type of things
from the book it's on page 151 which was
one of my favorite metaphors throughout
the book it says it was so much easier
to talk to him in the dark looking at
the same sky and said about each other
it felt like we didn't have bodies like
we were just voices talking like like
that is just such a perfect perfect
gorgeous
sentence that I just read it and I like
put the book down for a second I went
holy crap John Green like you just know
how to write these perfect gorgeous
amazing imagery type things this
particular court reminded me of the
drizzle hurricane metaphor that's from
Looking for Alaska so I walked back to
my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk
sinking out if people were rain I was
drizzle and she was a hurricane and when
I read that section front urges all the
way down it immediately made me think of
the drizzle hurricane metaphor which I
was so happy about because I was like
it's kind of a callback to his other
books but it also just shows that he has
a very consistent writing style that you
can see throughout all of his books i'm
here's 186 through 188 of the book as
well there's a couple sections that i'm
not going to read because there's a
little spoilery but there's so much
gorgeous language that's written here
that it reminds me a lot of why I love
John Green's characters because he
writes them in a way that makes them
seem older than they are I really love
that all of John Green's characters have
this heightened kind of language that
they speak it's like they live in their
own kind of universe of John Green speak
and they have all these amazing
metaphors that they use and all this
different language that they use that
gets their point across but in a very
pretty and amazing way you know there's
gonna be people who say that I'm a
terrible person for doing this but I
love writing in books when I'm reading
them because when I go back and read
them for a second or third or 10th time
I like to see the sections of the book
that I liked reading I used to fold down
the pages I don't do that anymore but I
like circle things and box things off
and underlying sections and lines of
books that I really liked and for me
it's just a nice way each time I read
the book to remember what I liked about
it of course I did it with Turtles all
the way down
I am definitely reading turtles all the
way down again because it's John Green I
love John Green books but also cuz I
want to know more about ASA I want to
read more about her and understand her
story and her worries and thoughts
spirals a bit more so I definitely I
definitely recommend this book to
anybody just anybody I think it's a
great book it's also John Green so like
you'll probably love it if you've read
Turtles all the way down let me know
what you think of it in the comments
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recommendations I'd love to hear what
everybody else is reading as well as
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