Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down

2017 • 286 pages

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Average rating3.9

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Trying another book where the main character has OCD in hopes to feel a connection with someone who also has OCD. Will probably be a slow burn.

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Review to come. Maybe tonight. Maybe tomorrow. But I can promise that it will come.

October 30, 2017

Absolutely read this book. The characters are so real that you know them. You feel them. It is full of doubt and pain and wonder and hope. Life: it goes on.

July 21, 2018
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January 15, 2020

I picked this book up after a very long time. The first chapters were hard for me to get through, that's why I stopped reading the book for a long time, but after I picked it up yesterday, I read it in almost one sitting. What an amazing book after all!

April 7, 2019
January 4, 2019

My least favorite of Mr. Green's novels thus far. It feels unfinished and in need of more editing and time.

December 29, 2017
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January 26, 2018
September 27, 2022

this book made me anxious but it's a great portrayal of anxiety
i think this book feels a little unfinished because it sets up a bunch of threads at the beginning but only follows through on like,,, one of them, so that was disappointing
it's a very ‘real' book

April 22, 2019
January 6, 2018

A series of detailed descriptions

If you love the style of describing every sight, sound, thought, or smell that each character experiences in detail, this is the book for you.

The story is very simple with a reasonable surprise at the end. The book is more experiential rather than plot driven.

October 26, 2017

There isn't much happening here, was my first thought, bit I think that's a little bit the point. Most of this book os happening in the head pf Aza, a teen struggling with OCD. Good portrayal of mental illness, worthy of a John Green novel.

September 15, 2021

emma got me a hardcover SIGNED version of this book for Christmas i am gonna cry opening it

January 4, 2022

reread in the honor of the movie coming out.

May 5, 2024
October 10, 2017

“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”

John fricking Green did it again. I LOVED this book.
He wrote an amazing novel, not as heartbreaking as some of his other works, but still very beautiful.

October 24, 2017
December 14, 2017

Good. Not as good as The Fault in Our Stars.

March 20, 2018
January 17, 2018
April 16, 2022

So, I'm working my way through my wish list tag on Libby.

I listened to about eighteen minutes and I was done. I listen to books to ease my anxiety, not to listen to a character's downward spiral.

Bailed and returned to the library. Back to the wish list for the next one!

July 19, 2021