Cas’s Reviews > Looking for Alaska > Status Update

if the first time i experienced major loss was as a junior in high school i think i would’ve been this messy in recovering from it too

it’s so funny that people ban this book for all the “sexual content” when really they could just be banning it for saying swear words a whole bunch. imagine high schoolers in the high school book saying bad words by TALOS THIS CANT BE HAPPENING

"at least when [the colonel] was cranky, he had a reason." miles my darling boy. have you considered that alaska may also have a reason? that her manic pixie dream girl days are something she plasters on top of the crankiness that's always there for reasons you haven't tried to figure out? god forbid a high school boy imagine people complexly smh my head

he is concussed. he is suffering from the nausea and dizziness typically associated with a mild concussion

the narrator of this book is quite possibly the most teenage boy to ever teenage boy. legend

forcing myself to stop for the night because i need to shower and i can barely keep my eyes open but jesus. jesus christ, honestly. gah and also augh

hey guys? hey. hey, guys? why did i not remember how completely, utterly, gut-wrenchingly devastating this book is?

it's all fun and games until you realize the chapter heading is "three days before" even though it just felt like you were in the hundreds and nothing could ever go wrong

i’m giving this a reread for the first time in 10 years (10 years???) for the mass book award reading challenge this month. let’s see how my brain has changed since then