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Book Report: Turtles All The Way Down

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1. This book is fiction because, none of it is real although within the book what maddy has is a real disease but the book itself is not. A quote from the author “it is about the thrill and heartbreak that happens when we break out of our shell to do crazy, sometimes death-defying things for love.” maybe in real life yes we all do crazy things but nothing like what maddy does. 2. The main character of the book (before she finds out) was diagnosed with scid when she was a few months old. So i guess she bored of her life because she has never been out of the house since she found out she was sick. 3. The last book i read was called “Turtles All the Way Down by john green. And this book i've just finished reading is called “Everything, …show more content…

But from “everything, Everything” the main character, maddy is “diagnosed” with SCID but, its false she's not sick at all. Her mom tells her this because when she was young, maddie's dad and brother died in a car accident and her mom doesn't want to lose her too. But in “Turtles All the Way Down” the main character, Aza is actually sick. And both of their fathers pass away in a car accident. 4. After I met Olly in New York we had the most amazing time together. It may have been only two days but, those were some of the best two days of my life. Since we only had two days together we spent one of them together and the other sightseeing. All the sights i saw were like a dream, i never thought i would get to experience life like this because of my past, no longer existing SCID problem. We went to all the places i have only seen online or in books and the amount of pictures and souvenirs i got all in day? It was extremely insane. While we were in Hawaii Olly took me to a USED book shop, let me repeat a USED bookshop. He knew I had always wanted to go to one but with my sickness, i couldn't go anywhere. So while I ways in New York with him, he found

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