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An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Read: For the Literary Goddesses book club
Source: Sacramento Library
Finished: 2/11/11
Rating: 8 out of 10
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Pages: 256
Originally Published: 2006
Synopsis (from Booklist): Green follows his Printz-winning Looking for Alaska (2005) with another sharp, intelligent story, this one full of mathematical problems, historical references, word puzzles, and footnotes. Colin Singleton believes he is a washed-up child prodigy. A graduating valedictorian with a talent for creating anagrams, he fears he’ll never do anything to classify him as a genius. To make matters worse, he has just been dumped by his most recent girlfriend (all of them have been named Katherine), and he’s inconsolable. What better time for a road trip! The idea behind the book is that everyone’s story counts, and what Colin’s contributes to the world, no matter how small it may seem to him, will, indeed, matter.
Overall Impression: This was the second selection for my Literary Goddesses online book club. After giving Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List a big bucket of MEH (review), An Abundance of Katherines came like a breath of fresh air. There are a lot of things I thoroughly enjoyed about this book — the snappy dialogue, the useful-and-funny-and-somehow-not-at-all-annoying footnotes, the hilarious best friend, and the moral of the story — accomplishments do not determine meaning, relationships determine meaning.
Instead of rehashing it all here, you can read our discussion, including my deeper musings at our shared blog:
Chapters 1-5
Chapters 6-10
Chapters 11-15
Chapters 16-end
Positives: Made math cute and fun (a feat I heretofore thought impossible), witty dialogue…all in all, quite funny and charming.
Negatives: A bit of it felt contrived, like a handful of the characters (TOC, Hollis, etc.) were caricatures of real people. And what geeky, socially awkward 18-year-old has dated NINETEEN girls, much less them all named Katherine?
Other books I’ve read by John Green: none
Other blogger opinions:
Jen (As Told by Jen): “As with Alaska and Towns, I identified rather scarily well with both his male protagonist, Colin Singleton, and The Girl.”
Kelly (KellyVision): “According to the Q&A with the author in the back of the book, this has been optioned for a movie. I hope that ends up happening, because I fell so in love with these characters.”
An Adventure in Reading: “I love the math in the book, including an appendix to further explain the theorem. More math!”
