15 Years of Looking for Alaska: An Ode to Suffering and Forgiveness

Fifteen years later, Looking for Alaska by John Green is just as relevant—or even more so—than the day it was published. I know that I fell in love with it the first time I read it, and every time I’ve…

Looking for Alaska: Comparing John Green’s Book Adaptations on TV vs. Movies

Movie adaptations are a book nerd’s favorite thing to complain about. While excitement ensues when the announcement comes (“Oh my gosh, they’re finally making XYZ into a movie!! I CAN’T WAIT.), dread quickly sets in as the release date crawls…

Looking for Alaska Review: The John Green Novel Finally Gets a TV Adaptation

Twelve years in the making, we finally have a TV adaptation of John Green’s Looking for Alaska, and it is the teen show we’ve been needing. Among the overwrought teen dramas of today, dramas that always have to have an…

Why YA Lit Matters: An Op-Ed Surrounding the Censorship of YA Novels, From a Young Adult’s Perspective

Young Adults vs. Children: Age Makes a Difference in Interpretation There is a measurable difference between children and teenagers and how they think; and while I lack the scientific data and figures to prove this point with hard-hitting and reliable…

Books to Movies: Which of Your Favorite YA Reads Might/Will Hit the Big Screen?

  Hollywood is gobbling up movie rights to almost every best-selling Young Adult novel to hit book stands in the past few years. Can you blame them? Every studio is looking for the new Harry Potter, Twilight and now Hunger…