Looking for Alaska

I swear I already wrote a review of this but I just saw it on my to-read list still so, whatever. Anyway, this is John Green's first book but I read it after An Abundance of Katherines & Paper Towns. He definitely has a thing for writing about nerdy boys and hot, quirky girls, but this is, I guess, his first book about nerdy boys and a hot, quirky girl. Luckily, he also gives the hot, quirky girls personalities and depth so they move beyond Garden State-cliché level.
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re-read for Banned Books Week. Still not my fav of JG's books, but also still think people mad about Alaska being a Manic Pixie Dream Girl lack reading comprehension skills. also, after watchin the Hulu series I was surprised to realize that the Colonel isn't canonically Black? His only given physical descriptors are short and dark hair. good call Hulu bc I think having him Black adds a depth to his character & his outrage at his more privileged peers. (I mean there was nothin stopping me from headcanoning him as Black when I read it the first time except my own white privilege but, still!)

anyway I still think it's a good book and I still think it's dumbbb to ban it over the blowjob scene but also it's not my fav JG book.