So I Guess that Everything Matters...

Out of all the books we've read this year, Ron Currie Jr.'s Everything Matters! was by far my favorite.  I didn't love this book the entire time.  In fact, you might say we had a bit of a love-hate relationship.  But in the end, this book affected me the most, and it was the only one that I actually enjoyed reading.  I found the allusions very modern and interesting, such as "your life is so blue it looks like a James Cameron movie."  This quote was both relatable and funny, while simultaneously depressing.  That's pretty much how the entire book went.  I'd connect with the characters, mostly Junior and Amy, and then they'd enter into depressing life situations and I'd get frustrated.  We always talk about how the books parallel our lives, and this was one book I was scared to see parallel my life in any way.  In the end, though, I got the sense from this book that it doesn't matter what I choose to do in life, since there are an infinity of possibilities and nothing is truly right or wrong.  In fact, "anything, anything, anything is possible."  It's easy to to give in to fear about the future, since "the theoretical snakes, theoretically lurking everywhere...trump them all," but the most important thing is to just continue living no matter what happens.  While Ms. Serensky would like us to "push the implications" in our essays, it's probably better not to do this in regards to real life.

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PS: classmates who have posted pictures that they randomly found on Google images, be careful what images you link.  If you accidentally steal someone's copyrighted photo and they get ticked off, they can change the photo from the original source to something wildly inappropriate.  This happened to me...it was not pretty.  But I fixed it.  So just a warning.