Before there was a Hazel, there was An Abundance of Katherines. This time, love seems to steer away from Colin Singleton, the protagonist of the novel. The thing is, Colin only dates girls that are named Katherine, and all of his relationships have ended by Katherine dumping him.
“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.” -page 15.
Makes sense that his last name is Singleton, right?
K-19 (Katherine nineteen) is the one that breaks his heart, unlike the rest. Before that, most of the Katherines had different ways of parting ways with him, from thinking boys were gross, wanting to be just friends and eventually one of them dumped him through e-mail.
Colin’s friend, Hassan, suggests they go on a road trip to prove Colin’s theory. The theory? It’s the Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability.
Throughout the road trip, they drive around aimlessly, just looking for adventure. They pass by Kentucky and Tennessee, encountering many things from monuments to dangerous feral hogs. Colin hopes that he’ll be able to avenge all the Dumpees in the world, as well as win himself a girl, perhaps another Katherine. Will he prove his theory correct, or is he just cursed to get dumped by Katherines?
Reading this book made me feel like I had something to connect to. He reminded me of a friend I have, making me wonder if he’ll actually do the same things Colin does. When it comes to talking, both of them tend to be socially awkward, sprouting out random facts about anything. Now that I think about it, Colin also reminds me of Sheldon, from the Big Bang Theory.
To wrap this up, I can connect with Colin’s behavior, personality and how he strongly resembles people I know. It’s a whole adventure while reading this book, full of laughter and the truth of the real world. The thing that attracted me to this book was because instead of love coming to him, love runs away from him.
Find out what happens next on Colin and Hassan’s road trip in the library.
Even her best friends didn’t know her new secret identity as a superhero. As Lin starts to get comfortable with her powers, her friend who is a blogger, starts calling her AC which stand for “Anonymous Coward.” As Lin is trying to get her name cleared, she has to go against an internet troll. she realizes she has to go 1vs1 with a wicked online villain, who spreads its influence through binary code. Can Lin detect the save the day, and restore her reputation?
nder. It often leads to misunderstanding for the parents or other people. Fortunately, Jazz’s parents approve of him and support him to completely change his gender. This is where he gets his name, Jazz. He later completely dresses up as a girl and does whatever a girl does. At first, everyone besides Jazz’s family were confused, the school still considered Jazz a boy so they made him join the boys soccer team and such. However, they have finally concluded to think of him as a girl. What will happen next? Will there be any consequences for Jazz? Find out the ending in the library.
Pullman who was born with a facial deformity and has been home schooled his entire life- Until his 10th birthday. After a while of debating his parents finally suggest that he should attend a publ
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t’s presence and it wasn’t good. They complained to the mayor, who was obviously frustrated at the the rat situation. However, one day there was a rat infestation at the subway. People were upset over this, suddenly, there was a man with a pan. He played it and then everyone was dancing. How did this happen? Due to his music. Everyone’s worries disappeared and even the rats were dancing. Soon, he ended the music which resulted in people stop dancing. They questioned him, and found out that the steel pan was the answer to the peace of Harlem.
a book. He was curious enough to go find out why he is reading a book. As he questions it, he thinks it’s related to his electronics. Sadly, he is obsessed with electronics but on the other hand, Monkey isn’t. Let’s just say Monkey is a bookworm. Fascinating, isn’t it? Anyway, he asks Monkey if you can charge a book, zoom in or text with a book. Monkey keeps denying and simply says,”It’s a book“.