Looking for Alaska, by J. Green

A quick summary:  Miles leaves home to join a boarding school, in search of the "Great Perhaps."  There, he makes several friends, including Alaska, a girl he starts to like.  Then, something happens...

This book was recommended by someone who recommended other books I liked, so I was really expecting to like this book.  But it was just okay.  Maybe it's because it's a YA book - I don't always like YA.

I did like this quote:

"There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day.  Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the the time because we could not see the future.  If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.  But we can't know better until knowing better is useless."  (p.218)

If only we could see how even our smallest actions do affect our lives.  If only we could know better at the precise time when we need to know better.