From all the parade of John Green' works, I want to talk about all the fun I had when I was reading Abundance of Katherines.
Abundance of Katherines is my very first John Green's book back then. He is literary my hero ever since.
Before jumping everywhere else, let us have a deep deep abundance for how good John Green is on naming his book. As a wannabe-writer myself, I found it extremely hard to give your book a proper + great title. John Green, on the other hand, have books with just the "right" title in our ears. Me, like everyone else in the world, is a big admirer of John Green.
I love Abundance of Katherines! I must say Abundance of Katherines is not any less good than John Green's another, more popular work: The Fault in Our Star. TFIOS has Gus, and he is just-really-really-charming but AOK has this quirky genius (yet lovely) Colin. Whom I loved, deeply!
"When it comes to relationship, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped." I love these lines so much that I decided to buy the book without thinking twice. I hadn't read the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Fault in Our Stars (as written in the cover), but I had faith that this John Green guy is really cool.
And I was right. Despite of his abundance, Colin is this prodigy who is smart enough to turn everything to a math formula; yet not to make himself a 20th century Einstein. Together with his bestfriend Hassan and not-a-Katherine Lindsey, Colin is in search to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability which he hopes will predict the future of any relationships. All for a place in this world.
What I love most about the book is all the honesty we found in our daily life. Like, wanting to be the coolest hero. Especially when you are a prodigy. Colin is upset about how ordinary his prodigy life is; he hasn't invented anything grand, yet. He needs to do something, he needs to meet the expectations. And though I am not a prodigy in any ways, I do sometimes feel not special even in the ordinary ways.
In the end of the day, you'll learn so much from this book. How Colin found himself a special shelter, being not-unique in the very best kind of way. Who needs the whole world when you have people who believes in you 24/7?
And the biggest question in the universe: Does he get the Katherine?
Lots of abundance,
The Michelle
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