The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood**

Aaargh!

Looking for Alaska, by John Green*****

It bothers me that I will probably forget this book, as I've forgotten so many books, and I didn't even like the girl. Alaska was a girl, not a place, and the author of this book attended Indian Springs school in Alabama. He used it, fictionalized, as a setting for Looking for Alaska. When I first started reading it, I was relieved that it did not involve another protracted journey of teenagers in a substandard automobile.

"We can't know better until knowing better is useless."