Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying that we should all start packing our bags now and leave our paper towns immediately. The whole point of the book, as I see it, is being brave enough to realize that maybe the town in which you live or your current life is too small for you. Maybe you’ve outgrown it and need the courage to start an adventure. It was much later that I realized this may be the whole point of the book and, if my theory is correct, then John Green did a fantastic job! The book does an amazing job of showing us how easily we adapt to our current “not perfect” but “good enough” lives and how we live and waste our lives in a paper town, being too afraid to make the first step toward something new. A read about some ordinary kids in an ordinary town with an ordinary story, and nothing extraordinary ever happened in the whole book. I thought that the book was just…ordinary. Yeah, it may be the fact that the only other John Green book I had read at that point was The Fault in Our Stars, so, yeah, I did have (as Dickens once said) great expectations. But I do, quite vividly, remember that I felt really disappointed after finishing it. I read this book a while ago now, in September of 2014, and then I reread it for the Essie Button #Buttonsbookshelf deal.

Prepare for a lot of rambling, indecisive, and illogical sentences. As you all may know, the Paper Towns movie is coming soon to every theater near you. So, I decided this was the perfect opportunity to share my feelings about this book with you. Hello, my beautiful, beautiful creatures! God, did I struggle with picking a book to review this month! And then it hit me.

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