An Abundance of Katherinesby John Green

Published in 2006. 215 pages.
2007 Printz Honor Book.


From the book jacket: Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself by Printz medalist John Green.

For my inner geek: As one might deduce from the cover, math plays a role in the plot of this young adult novel, as protagonist Colin Singleton works to devise a Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability. (There is an appendix by mathematician Daniel Bliss that expounds upon the mathematics of the Theorem.) Colin is also a master of anagrams and a lover of trivia, much of which ends up in periodic footnotes.

For the Dewey's Books Reading Challenge: Dewey wrote a review of An Abundance of Katherines in 2008. Two challenge participants who have also reviewed it are raidergirl3 and Bart.

All in all, a fun read!

2009.7

Dewey's Books Reading Challenge

In Memory of Dewey

Hosted by Chris
at the Challenge Blog
January 1 - December 31
The challenge requires that participants read either one book from each of the years Dewey archived (2003 through 2008) - for a total of six - or else five books from any that Dewey reviewed. Here are some possibilities for me:

• Into the Forest by Jean Hegland (2003)


• Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (2004)


• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood or
  Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (2005)


• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon or
  Cell by Stephen King (2006)


• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman or
  Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie or
  We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2007)


• Looking for Alaska by John Green or
  An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (2008)