All the Bright Places by: Jennifer Niven
My heart can't take these books anymore. I've read three books in a row that made me cry and I just can't anymore. This one when first added to my list I thought 'it probably teaches you something about wanting to stay alive or something' but noooooooo it couldn't have happily ever after where the guy gets the girl and the girl gets the guy and so on, no no no it had to make me ball my eyes out and stain my pillow. I was gonna read Looking for Alaska next but I need a break from sad so today I started The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Works pretty much a book full of Oscar Wilde stories. This book may have made me sad but nonetheless it was amazing, All The Bright Places brings light to depression and other things in a good way and it shows us what it feels like to deal with something that's uncontrollable to you. I love this book so much and fell in love with the characters, I was there with them during all of their wanderings and someday I want to wander too. Also gonna warn you real quick suicide is mentioned in this so if your sensitive to this stuff you've been warned.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.
Summary from goodreads:
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.
Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.
When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler
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