Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Leviathan

I always feel like a better person after reading a John Green book, and this joint work was no different.  It really made me stop and consider my own friendships.  This book has examples of unhealthy relationships, and people who should be friends but don’t get it, and a lot of outcasts coming together, and there are a lot of different motives for all the people involved.  It stuck with me for a while after reading it.

As for the action of the book, much of it stems from the accidental meeting of two different Will Graysons and comes to be focused on the production of a musical written by Tiny Cooper, the friend of one of the Will Graysons.  I could only wish for something as fabulous as that to by staged by my school.  It leads to a lot of complications between people, but as Tiny Cooper consistently reminds everyone, it is about love and a lot of love both goes into and comes out of it.  Also, I have this really intense image of Tiny Cooper looking like Damian from Mean Girls, which I feel is a bit stereotypical but couldn’t be helped because of the adoration I have for both characters.

This book also instilled in me the desire to meet all the other Katie Mulcahys of the world, and I know there are many.  It’s an absurdly common name, I have come to find.  Growing up, I was always sent late fees from the library for books I never borrowed because they always confused me with another Katie Mulcahy.  One of my elementary school teacher’s said her mother was a Katie Mulcahy (but by marriage, not birth).  And there is definitely another Katie Mulcahy in my year at school, but though we have mutual friends and have even been in a lecture together, we’ve never directly met.  A part of me always felt like if I were to meet another Katie Mulcahy, it would tear a hole in the universe or something, but now I’m filled with hope for the possibilities that could come of it.