Okay

    After the Isaac breakdown in Augustus house Hazel went home and waited for Augustus to call her. One night he called during dinner and when Hazel answered she found out that Augustus had sent an e-mail to Peter Van Houten's assistant and she replied so he read it out to her and she couldn't believe it. Hazel eventually sent an e-mail herself asking for some answers. After some days he texted her saying that Isaac had the surgery and that he will be out in a few days. Hazel went to visit Isaac and he talked about how his breakup with Monica matters more than he being blind and then she left. Four days past after Hazel received a response from Peter and the e-mail said that he couldn't answers via e-mail nor de phone, the only way he would get the answers was in person. The only problem with that was that he lived in Amsterdam. Hazel told Augustus the news and he asked her if she still had her Wish from The Genie Foundation but she had used it when she was 13 to go to Disney World. The next day Hazel went to the market with her parent and when she got home Augustus was waiting in the doorstep with some orange flowers, he asked her if she wanted to go to a picnic and she agreed. In the picnic Augustus revealed the hole reason he took her to a picnic, he was going to share his Wish with Hazel since he hadn't use his. He wanted to go to Amsterdam with her and The Genie Foundation was going to make sure Hazel had all the supplies to be safe. She told her mom and she was going to talk to Dr. Maria to make sure it was ok to take Hazel. Days past and one night Hazel was in pain so she screamed and her parents rushed her to the hospital, luckily the tumor hadn't grown and there were no new tumors but her lungs were filled with liquid. She was fine after that but in the next Cancer Team Meeting there was a debate whether or not she was going and after a few days she received a e-mail from Van Houten assistance confirming she will arrive the 4th of May.

WHEN WE KNEW HAZEL WAS GOING TO AMSTERDAM.

                                                                                         

                                                                                     "Maybe okay will be our always" (Green,73)


  This quote is from when Augustus and Hazel were talking on the phone and before hanging up the kept saying "okay" and Monica and Isaac kept saying "always" every time they saw each other and it was the thing Isaac missed the most. So this quote said by Augustus means a lot to the story to the couple since it's a word repeated over and over and it is so powerful in a way i can't explain it's like their thing.

“I'm like. Like. I'm like a grenade, Mom. I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?” (Green, 99)

     The quote stand up to me because as Hazel said this to her parents the author made sure we felt connected to Hazel and feel bad because she really thinks that the people she builds relationships are gonna get hurt when she dies and she feels responsible for saving those people from suffering when she is gone. 

     The book is amazing so far there are not so many books that I'm so hooked up to keep reading even though i already got to my goal, but this one is like that. I fell in love with the characters and even though i have seen the movie while i red it i try to forget about the movie and the actors because in the book there is so much more detail, scenes, and characters that aren't in the movie. For example in the book Hazel has a friend named Kaitlyn and the scene of the hospital were Hazel goes to see Isaac isn't in the movie either and the book like always is way better. The book is awesome I love it like most of all John Green's books.

An Imperial Affliction

     The Fault in Our Stars is a book written by John Green about a 16 year old girl who suffers from terminal lung cancer named Hazel Grace Lancaster. She lives with her parents which suggest she is depressed since she doesn't live the house and read the same book over and over again, An Imperial Affliction. Her doctor suggested her to go to a support group where she met Isaac a guy with eye cancer who had a glass eye and a real one but it will be eventually removed in surgery he also had a girlfriend named Monica, she also meets Augustus Waters a 18 year old who lost part of his leg due to his osteosarcoma and have a prosthetic instead. In the support group Augustus revealed his fear is oblivion, he fears he would not leave a mark. Eventually Augustus and Hazel became friends and they made a deal to read each other's favourite book which Hazel chose , An Imperial Affliction, and he picked ,The Price of Dawn. An Imperial Affliction was a book written by Peter Van Houten about a girl with cancer and Hazel loved the book because it didn't sugar coded was cancer is really like, but the book ended in the middle of a sentence and that was so frustrating but also it represented that life ends just like that. One day she got a call from Augustus saying that he had finished the book and he was annoyed that the book ended just like that but he also asked Hazel if she can go to his place since Monica just dumped Isaac and he is having a crisis, so she went and Isaac was just devastated over the break up.

"It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." (Green, 20)

    This quote is from when Augustus and Hazel are outside the support group and he put a cigarette in his mouth and Hazel says how it's gross and how she is against it when Augustus stopped her and explain that it's just a metaphor. I think that the quote explains that there are many things in the world that have the potential to kill you but if you don't give them the power to do it they can't.

"Pain demands to be felt" (Green, 57)

   This quote is from when Hazel arrives to Augustus house and Isaac is all over the place breaking stuff and Hazel makes a comment saying how she gets why he is so upset and then Augustus replies with this. This quote even though it so short it has more than one meaning behind it. First of all this is quote was taken out of the book Hazel loves so much so he quoted Peter Van Houten and thats why it has so much meaning to the reader and most of all Hazel. It also means that even though pain hurts we have to feel it in order to know how it feels to be happy.

     So far the book is really good, I have read most of John Green books and most of them star slow, he usually uses like the 3 first chapters so introduce characters and give back story but this book moves fast. I appreciate that on books because sometimes it gets boring but when it moves fast like this they give you new information along the way.  I like the story line and the characters have their own personality and it's nice to read books that show the reader traits about the characters without actually saying them. I am really excited to continue reading.

    

19 Katherine's and One Lindsey

Lindsey is confused because she is not feeling sad about the breakup with TOC and she is just accepting it. Hassan, Colin and Lindsey went to Memphis to discover the reason why Hollis has been being so weird lately and going out a lot and they found out that the factory is in bankrupt but Hollis doesn't want to fire any of the people that work at the factory so she is selling land to sustain all the jobs which is very nice of her. Lindsey had mixed feeling she was happy because her mom was doing something amazing for people of Gutshot  but she was like feeling down because she was confuse with her emotions so then she went to her secret place. She lied to Hollis telling her she was going to sleep in a friends house but Colin knew were she was so he went to the secret place and they talked about how she didn't missed TOC at all and then he told her the full Katherine timeline and he felt relief after. Then they ended up together and it was amazing. Also Hassan applied for college so Colin was proud of him. The theorem was complete so Colin tried to see how his relationship with Lindsey could turn out and it said she would dump him in the 4th day of their relationship which turn out to not be true and Colin was happy because they were still together but sad because something was wrong with the formula. He had his second eureka moment by concluding by saying that the formula was not gonna be always right because future is unpredictable.

WHEN I FINISHED THE BOOK.

     "That's why those tapes we made are going toe so great one day, because they'll stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever" (Green,202)

     The quote was about the tapes they record when they do jobs for Hollis, the tapes are about the people that live in Gutshot and they ended talking about this because Colin said that it doesn't matter because everyone will die and forget you and even people like Einstein will be forgotten and that time swallows every person every achievement but the last thing that will desapear are memories.

"And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened." (Green,208)

    When Colin finished his Katherine timeline he ended it with this statement which seems very interesting to me because it makes you really think a lot back of small things that maybe didn't actually really happened the way you remember but what you remember became what happened for you, I know it might be a little confusing but if you really think about it deeply it makes lots of sense.

      I finished the book and i did like like it is not one of my top 5 favourite but it was good. I really liked the last part of the book in which the author explains every part of the formula which was interesting because it is presented in notes and you feel like you are reading Colin's notes and it was a nice touch. The book ended good because i wanted Lindsey and Colin together but I was sad that the Hassan and Katrina thing didn't work out. I would recommend the book to people that really like math. One of my favourite thing about the whole book was at the end when he tells the hole Katherine timeline because he only talked about 3 Katherine's on the hole book and the other 16 weren't mention and they were just a number but when he talked about all of them we put a face to the number so it was amazing. Even though this book wasn't one of my favourites i still love John Green writing.

Pigs, Bees And A Fight

     The group went hunting after Lindsey taught Colin how to shoot properly. Hassan a Colin had an encounter with one of the pigs they were going to hunt and when it was about to attack them colin shot it but he didn't aim the pig he aim a tree that had bees and they were running for like 10 minuetes away from them but eventually the could run  away and when they were going back to the civilisation they recognise TOC and Katrina who was Hassan's new girlfriend kissing. Colin and Hassan approach them and TOC tried to explain but couldn't put an excuse so he just admitted that this has been going on for a while. Hassan immediately broke up with her. Colin was feeling bad for Lindsey when TOC told him that he shouldn't said anything to Lindsey or he will get hurt and when he was saying all these he started recording him. Then Lindsey, JATT and SOCT arrived with drinks and everything seemed good but then Colin couldn't handle it anymore and he played the recording of the confession and Lindsey just went away and TOC try to make her stay and grabbed her so she started screaming and JATT told TOC to let her go but he didn't so JATT went to kick him but TOC hit first and JATT was left on the floor but then Hass and Colin went to help but TOC hit first again and they were all down the Lindsey kicked TOC and he was on the floor. Lindsey went to help his friends and he whispered in "My Hero" to Colin.

WHEN TOC CHEATED

"Colin had to figure out what had gone wrong inside his brain, and fix it. He returned to the central question : how could he have completely forgotten dumping her?" (Green, 166)

     Colin wasn't working on the theorem that much in this part of the book but in the small time that he was we learned a gigantic thing from Colin's past that he even forgot. He had dumped K3 and he didn't remember, when he was working on the theorem it worked for 18 katherines except for K3 and so then he didn't remember how it ended so then he called her and she told him that he was the one who dumped her. This quote really makes me think that he has the mentality that he is the dumpee but maybe he is not always the dumpee like right know. He used to believe he was 100% dumpee which is not longer true.

"She's my friend. And if I were in her position, I'd expect her to tell me" (Green,174)

     The quote is from when TOC told them to keep their mouths shut or they will regret it. I like how Colin cares about Lindsey and he looks at her as a friend but I do think that part of the reason why he showed Lindsey the recording was because he is falling for her and he wanted to end their relationship although it was also because he wanted to make the right thing and the best part was that he didn't even care that TOC was going to hit him he just wanted to do the right thing.

     The book is fantastic it has every part of a John Green book that I love it has action, drama and love. It was weird at first that the book wasn't read in the point of view of the main character but now I am starting to like it. In this part of the book the theorem wasn't really talked about excepted for that one part so it makes me a little bit worried since the book is so close to an end and i just want to get a solid formula that works and that proves Colin's theory. I am excited to see what happens between Lindsey and Colin after this and if they will be together at the end or not i would absolutely love that.

The Theorem Continues

     Living on the mansion was good and their only job was going to ask people questions that Hollis wanted them to ask.Lindsey taught Colin how to tell a proper a story. He called Katherine 19th to tell her that he loves her but it didn't went well and she just said that the decision taken was good and that he shouldn't call her more and then he started crying. Then Hassan went out with TOC, Lindsey and their friends to a taco place while Colin stayed home working on the theorem and the Hassan arrived he told him very exciting news. He had kissed Katrina (Friend of TOC and Lindsey) but Colin went crazy out of nowhere so they had a big fight and they didn't talk for a day until they talked about everything and Colin was mad because Hassan called TOC Colin while telling the story but at the end both said they are sorry and were best friends again. Then Lindsey and Colin were driving and she told him that she wanted to participate on the theorem with him and he accepted and so the theory started making sense since they added more variables to the formula like age, popularity, looks etc. The next day the went to the store and TOC invited Hassan and Colin to hunt with him Lindsey and his friends on the woods and they accepted. That night Hassan had a date with Katrina so Lindsey and Colin went to dinner together and then Lindsey wanted to show Colin how to shoot because she didn't want him to look bad on the weekend.

WHEN COLIN WAS BEING MEAN AT HASSAN

 "My theorem will tell the story. Each graph with a beginning and a middle and an end"(Green, 95)

      This quote is from when Lindsey was teaching Colin how to tell his stories so the listener would be interested she said his stories didn't had a plot and and there needs to be adventure and romance things that his stories dint had. Colin responded with this because the theorem is a representation of all his relationships and so even though he isn't that good with words and stories he would explain it all with he theorem and it would had all the elements to be good story.

"You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them" (Green, 105)

     The quote is just after he talked with K19 and he was totally heart broken and since the book started he can't stop talking about her. And the quote is really sad because he is clearly not over her and she obviously is so over him. The quote was important because Green enhance the fact that he is struggling to forget her.

    We finally have the theorem which is really difficult to explain because it has many parts to it like variables to fill and fractions its actually a really elaborated theorem and i like how they explain it part by part so you understand how it works and how it came to be what it is. I absolutely loved when Lindsey invited Colin to dinner and wanted him to be prepared for the weekend and I am obsessed with them as a couple but clearly he is still in love with Katherine 19th and Lindsey has TOC. I hate him but i do think it was nice of him when he invited the boys to go hunting on the woods but i am 100 percent sure something bad will happened and everything will blow up. But i really like that they finally gave me a theorem even though it isn't the final its like the start of the final one.

 

WHEN TOC INVITED THEM HUNTING.

   

     

Staying In the Pink Mansion

After Colin had the idea of the theorem Lindsey's boyfriend arrived, who strangely is also named  Colin.Hassan decided they will call Lindsey's boyfriend TOC (The Other Colin) since he said Colin was the original. Then Lindsey's mother arrived and we learned that her name is Hollis Wells and that she owns the shop were Lindsey Wells worked and a factory in town who used to make textile stuff. When Lindsey told Hollis Colin was a prodigy she was totally fascinated and invited both to dinner. When they arrived Colin thought they got lost because they were entering to a gigantic pink mansion,but it was actually the Wells mansion. After they ate Hollis offered Hassan and Colin a job, they just needed to do random tasks on the factory, the shop or just doing some work at the town. They will be payed 500$ a week and so they accepted they will be living in the mansion.

WHEN COLIN SAW THE PINK MANSION.

"Oh, it's weird. It's like the poor man's thumb sucking,isn't   it? Anyway, I only do it in private" (Green, 66)

    The quote is interesting because she was bitting the inside of her thumb but that's not it but she said she only does that in private but she was with Colin so that's not private I think Lindsey is feeling                            really good around Colin.So good that she does "private" stuff around him. I ship them.

     "Colin backed away from the door then. It occurred to him that he'd never done anything else in his whole life. Anagramming;spitting back facts he'd learned in books; memorizing ninety-nine digits of an already known number; falling in love with the same nine letters over and over again: retyping and retyping and retyping. His only hope for originality was the Theorem" (Green, 92)

     This scene is from when Colin heard Lindsey and Hassan talking about how good Colin is at some stuff that people that aren't prodigies can't do so easily. And then he realised he had been doing things that had already being done and that the only chance to do something new something that matter he just wants to be someone who made something never has ever done before and for him the only way to do that is the Theorem.

    I like how the book is going but I would like more chemistry between Lindsey and Colin. I liked how the road trip took a turn when the decided to stay I was really impressed that Colin accepted. I don't know why but i am hating TOC I just want him to disappear he is so annoying although he hasn't appear a lot i just can't stand him. The way the book is written is like related to the fact that Colin is a prodigy and the theorem and I absolutely love that there are graphs and calculations on the pages it just makes it so much interesting. I do want to see if the Theorem works but I want it to be fast like I want like 2 chapters full of the Theorem but all at once. Since its a John Green book there will obviously be a gigantic plot twist that will make things difficult but it will still be brilliant. I want to continue reading just to know how the Theorem goes like the story is funny and interesting but the big plot of the story is the Theorem.

WAITING FOR THE THEOREM.

Road Trip to Nowhere

An Abundance of Katherines is a book written by John Green about a 17 year old named Colin Singleton who lives in Chicago with his parents. Colin is a prodigy who has been dumped by 19 Katherine's in all his life. His best friend is Hassan Harbish who is tired of hearing about his friend breakup every single time. Since this was the 19th time Colin has been dumped Hassan decides they will take a road trip with no destiny to help his friend get over this breakup. Colin belief there are 2 types of people in the world Dumpee's and Dumper's and that all Katherine's are Dumpers. While they traveled they notice a sign that said that the tomb of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was there and Colin always wondered about his assassination and he wondered what his body why his body will be in America so they decide to go. There they met the tour guide who's name was Lindsey Lee Wells a 17 year old paramedic in training. While Lindsey was guiding the boys to the tomb Colin fell and hit his head and while he was in the floor he came up with a very interesting theory about relationships and a formula that he believed that could determine who will be the Dumpee and the Dumper even though the two people haven't met the formula worked .The book is written in an interesting way since there are some words that are no exactly part of the vocabulary they are words invented by the characters and beside each word there is a number and at the bottom of the page you find what it means, its not always words it can be a detailed explanation of a brief thing its mention or sometimes graphs.

DUMPEE AND DUMPER BELIEF.

"Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution." (Green,11)

     Kafir is the Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God. And this quote is from Hassan and since he is from that religion and Colin is an atheist he sometimes refers to him as Kafir. Hassan is talking about the break up and how it is complicated but that the solution can be so simple as just getting K19 (Katherine 19) out of his mind.

"But still, the thought lurked out there, just beyond the reach of his headlights: he'd been dumped. By a girl named Katherine. For the nineteenth time"(Green,15)

     I think the quote want's to make it clear that Colin is suffering because it's the 19th time it happens  and the fact that John Green is saying this exact same thing but in different words like 4 times it means it is something we have to remember.

     So far the book is good, its still giving back story and introducing the characters more so I think thats why right now it doesn't give major plots. I think it is really interesting that this book is not written by the perspective of the main character which is odd since all of John Green's books that i have read so far are telling the story from the view of the main character. The perspective doesn't bother me but still it feels weird since i am used to other type of writing but it is still clear that it is a John Green book because of the way he tells the story in such a fascinating way that makes you feel part of the story. I am excited to see what happens next i personally think that since Colin got dumped   19 times by Katherine's the book will have another love interest for Colin but I'm not sure if her name will be Katherine or something else maybe Lindsey..... if she becomes her love interest i would be happy because so far she seems a good person and id like to see them together.