I finished The Kite Runner on Sunday and I was so pleased with the ending. It really got to be a roller coaster ride towards the end. Your emotions will be up then down, then up, then down! You worried, then you felt happy, then you worried, and on and on. The ending was very simple but it was the kind of simple that you really like. Like the smell of rain on pavement, it's so simple but you can't help but love it. I started the book Looking for Alaska by John Green after a very annoying trip to the library. I love this book. I'm around 45 pages in and I just love the tone of the book. It's told in first person. I've read books in first person before, The Kite Runner was in first person but it wasn't anything like Looking for Alaska. For example, Miles talks about his parents leaving him at the boarding school and he says "At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved" (7). I thought that was sort of funny, I've heard the saying but never in this context. Another one of his thoughts was "I knew I ought to cry, but I'd lived with my parents for sixteen years, and a trial separation seemed overdue" (7). He's leaving the nest, but he doesn't even want to cry about it or anything--he'd rather compare it to couple's failed marriage steps. This new book is told by a teenager, a real life teenage. He has just turned on a new leaf and just started a new school. As a reader, you go through his first experiences with him, his crushing on the pretty girl down the hall with him. The difference between this book and other books I've read is that this particular author really left this huge door open, a garage even, for the reader to enter and join the main character--Miles--in his journey. I've never actually been this excited about a book after just reading 45 pages: hopefully the ending doesn't disappoint :).
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