I’m just going to talk about these all at once (Will Grayson, Will Grayson. Paper Towns. The Fault in Our Stars. An Abundance of Katherines.), since I read them all in the span of about a week….

Let me set the scene. I read “Looking for Alaska” a while ago, and after I read and dug it, I bought the rest of his books for my kindle almost immediately. Of these four, I started with TFiOS. I thought to myself, “It’s about 8pm on a Saturday night, Hubby is hunkered down playing videogames, I might as well start a new book.”

This was either the best thing or the worst thing I have ever done.

I read TFiOS in one sitting, from 8pm to after 4am. Hubby kept looking over at me when I had a steady stream of tears and snot coming down my face, sniffling loudly (it sounded like this: *snooooorrrrrkkkkkkkkkk*) and blowing my nose with the Chipotle napkins left from dinner since I didn’t want to step out of the story to go get actual tissues. I was a hot mess. A. Hot. Mess. Getting out of bed for Sunday lunch with my parents was not fun for either of us.

I haven’t cried like that in a long, long time… since March 15, 2009, actually. It was a real catharsis, one that I didn’t know I needed.

I powered through the other three very quickly, and I enjoyed them a lot. I didn’t have as visceral of a reaction to them as I did to TFiOS, but I dug them.

All four are highly recommended, but TFiOS most of all… though not on a work or school night… :)