The Happy Hippo Readers

First of all, I would like to start off by saying that after reading both this book and  The Bluest Eye  I can without a doubt say that Toni Morrison is my favorite author. She writes in a way that is so emotionally powerful that reading other books, even good ones like  Purple Hibiscus , does not excite me emotionally to the same extent.  Song of Solomon  by Toni Morrison is an amazing book that covers themes of identity, family, and race. It tells the story of Macon Dead III or Milkman (his nickname) in his growth and discovery of his family's history. From the very beginning of the story Toni Morrison starts off with the emotionally powerful writing I loved in The Bluest Eye:  At 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 18th of  February,  1931, I will take off from Mercy and fly away on my own wings. Please forgive me. I loved you all. (signed) Robert Smith, Ins. Agent                   (Toni Morrison 3) While the narrative style, another part of  The Bluest Eye  that I loved, was not the ex

                           The Hunger Games  is a very famous series of books published my Suzanne Collins.               The series is set in a Dystopian world, which consists of many social classes that divide the people in it, these are the Capital and the Districts.  Each year, as a form of punishment and control, the Capitol requires each district to send one boy and one girl, known as "tributes," to participate in the Hunger Games—a televised event where the contestants fight to the death until only one person remains. The protagonist, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, one of the poorest districts. She volunteers to take her younger sister Prim's place as a tribute when Prim's name is called during the Reaping, which is when the candidates for the Hunger Games are chosen. Katniss, along with another boy in her district are sent to the games. The Hunger Games are a brutal and deadly competition where the tributes must navigate a dangerous arena

       Turtles All the Way Down  written by John Green, follows Aza Holmes, a 16 year old girl who suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and severe anxiety, as she tries to find her neighbor's billionaire fugitive father. However, the goal of this blog isn't to review the book, but rather to compare Aza Holmes to the author, John Green.     John Green has frequently spoke in the media about his struggles with anxiety and OCD. Growing up, he felt isolated from his classmates and peers. He often had compulsive thoughts and suffered from anxiety. This led to him transferring to a boarding school when he was 14. On an interview he said this about his schooling change " I was really struggling socially, I was really struggling academically, I was a really poor student and it seemed to me like a—like a way out. Like a chance to reinvent myself, a chance to become a different person and not be stuck with all of the memories that everyone, you know, in my school had of me. &q