Reading Response #4

 I wanted to show the way he wrote the title.


Surprise! I am reading yet another book by John Green. (I am reading everything he has written so far so be prepared for next week as well). This one is called An Abundance of Katherines, and yes, it is important that Katherine is spelled with a "K." In this novel, a child prodigy named Colin has a rare preference. He only dates girls named Katherine (has to be spelled with a "K") and every single time he gets dumped. In John Green's own words:

"When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, God forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated nineteen girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them--every single solitary one--had dumped him."

By the time he has graduated high school and is seventeen years old, he has dated nineteen different Katherines. After being dumped for the nineteenth time, him and his best friend Hassan decide that they need to get away for awhile. Thus began their road trip to no where in particular. They decide to stop at a tourist spot in Gutshot, Tennessee that claims to have the remains of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. They start talking to the tour guide, Lindsey, they realize that a summer in Gutshot, Tennessee spent working for Lindsey's mom may be exactly what they need. Once they make the decision to stay in Gutshot for awhile, Colin begins to work on a formula for being dumped. It goes as such:

This above picture is Colin's actual equation as written in the book. I am using this as my picture because the formula is a very important part of plot and sets the motivation for most of the story.