I’ve always enjoyed reading but have never been the type to collect mountains of books. However, thanks to my book-loving roommate who basically has a personal library, I’ve been able to borrow some really great novels this year.
These are my favorites so far:
Me Before You
Me Before You is the story of how a quirky, shy young woman named Louisa Clark unexpectedly became a caregiver to the uptight, rude man that is Will Traynor. What follows is a unique love story between the unlikely pair and when cheerful meets cynical, their outlooks on life change in ways neither of them could have expected. It’s a very charming and romantic story and definitely worth the read.
“Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
Looking For Alaska
Looking For Alaska is different from other John Green books in the way that it is written and the realness of what the characters experience is very meaningful and takes readers to another place. The main character, Miles, leaves his life at home in hopes of having a more exciting life at boarding school, where mysterious girl Alaska Young awaits.
“Because I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
If I Stay
If I Stay explores the most difficult choice a person could ever make—whether to live without their loved ones or to pass away with them. Throughout the novel, the main character Mia reflects on her life while also going through the trauma of her present situation after a terrible accident. The situation makes for an incredibly heart-wrenching yet fast read, this is a page-turner for sure.
“And that’s just it, isn’t it? That’s how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Since reading these books, I’ve started to appreciate how each one has something different to take away from it and now I never want to be without a good book again.