Turtles All The Way Down

Turtles all the way down is written by Jhon Green. This book is a good read but I do not list it as a must read book.

I really liked the concept and the way it is written but I didn’t find the story very amusing or something that you can read in one sitting.

This story is about the lead heroine who is of anxious type and her best friend and a childhood friend whose father goes missing. They get together to find his father.

*spoilers ahead*

So as the story begins Aza Holmes and her best friend Daisy are listening to radio when they come to know that Russel Picket father of Davis Picket has now become a fugitive.

Since Aza is his childhood friend Daisy suggests they can find Russel and can be rich.

Aza is an Anxious person who has a habit of over thinking about the microbials around her, she has this tendency to get easily nervous and dig her nail in the skin of the thumb and disinfect it using a sanitizer and wrap a band-aid around it. While daizy is very enthusiastic person. Aza father had died and. Her mother was a teacher in her school.

Davis likes Aza but is afraid that she gets close to him just for her father and gives her bribe to not investigate about his disappearance as well as is afraid about his younger brother who only wants to find his father.

After series of events they finally do find their father but decides to move out of their present home.

The plus point about this book was the description of the microbial flora how they affect us and giving us an insite about the feelings of an Anxious person.

There is this line which Aza says that her grandmother once told her-“The earth is held on the shell of a huge turtle who is standing on another turtle and it’s turtle all the way down.”

Similarly when we are anxious we try to think about something else and just keep on thinking about it, like in spirals.

I love the quotes and lines written by Davis in his blogs. I didn’t really get how Aza finally find Russell’s whereabouts and his mentality.

But I do believe that it’s an eye-opening book that I did enjoy reading.