09/ 22/ 2014
Earlier this year, I reviewed a very cool book titled 642 Things to Write About. I thought it would be fun to post some of my responses to the book’s many writing prompts. Here’s what my latest entry looks like:
07/ 15/ 2014
A couple months ago, I — along with millions of others — read the The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. I liked it. Green has a compelling writing style, creating heroines out of teenagers, while we listen, hearing them cope with real life experiences: death, sex, suffering and heartache.
Looking for Alaska is a different kind of story, a coming of age tale told from the main character Miles Halter’s point of view. When we meet Miles, he’s a friendless geek from Florida moving to Alabama to attend boarding school. At first, it seems like loneliness may be the motivation for this change. Later we find that Miles is a mature teen, in search of his “Great Perhaps.” In Alabama, he’s befriended by a girl named Alaska and his roommate Chip. These friendships teach him many things (like how to smoke cigarettes and drink like a sailor), but he also learns that life is a much more complicated journey, one that he’s only just beginning to understand.
05/ 26/ 2014
Florida is beautiful
Love this pug, Murray
After my first 8 mile run in Prospect Park
03/ 23/ 2014
Leave your mark
Approximately 13.5 inches later–major haircut!
