Still Feeling

I finished reading John Green's Looking for Alaska tonight. It's a short book, just over 200 pages, that I spent most of yesterday and today reading. Absolutely beautiful. As I completed it, I was in tears and thinking this has to be at least my second favorite book of all time (the first being When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin). But I'm wondering, soon and still slowly after, whether or not this is now my #1 favorite book.

I'm still feeling its effects. I'm feeling a love I have not felt since a dream so many years ago. A love for that which is not real and can never be.

There will certainly be a review and possibly a list of my favorite (non-spoiler) quotations on and from this book. I shall be releasing on the final Friday of this month. Film review of Cloud Atlas coming this Friday.

For now: one last cigarette, one last Mountain Dew, before I leave to hope and dream of that which will never be.

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P.S.: Alaska made me happy. Alaska made me sad. Alaska made me remember love.