![Three suggestions for Looking For Alaska, and one for The Fault in Our Stars. A quick look at Wikipedia [more on that in a moment] seems to suggest that TFiOS might be a bit too close to home, with regards the subject matter. So I’ll go with Looking For Alaska.
Also - I was able to reserve it from the library! They’ve finally upgraded & or fixed, the ticket system. Basically, before, adults couldn’t borrow books that were classified as “Young Adult” or “Junior Fiction”, as is the case with Looking For Alaska. So instead of reserving online, you had to walk into the branch, ask a library assistant [or librarian, if you could find one¹] to grab it off the shelves, and process it for you.
Seems like they’ve fixed that now. Which is good.
¹Through no fault of their own - they were just spread a little thin. Budget cuts and all that.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxxnk4nKD01qa7o0ko1_1280.jpg)
I’m currently [well, not currently currently, obviously] reading a very, very strange book…
“Gun with Occasional Music” by Jonathan Lethem.
It’s a sci-fi crime noir, that features among other things, a talking cat. Not some kinda hallucination, but an actual, talking cat, who learns to read at “Grown up school”.
I actually stopped reading after about 20 pages and jumped online [where would we be without 3G?] to check that it wasn’t the 2nd / 3rd book in a series, as there’s a lot that isn’t explained.
Turns out it’s not. Which I like. I appreciate it when an author just drops you smack bang into the reality they’ve crafted, and expects you to “catch up”.
Anyways - back to the book at hand! [A physical book - from a public library, none the less. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!]
