Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Summary: Miles Halter decides to go to Culver Creek boarding school in search of adventure, and after meeting Alaska Young, he finds it. This is the story of those adventures.

Comments: First, I want to call out that the book is divided into two sections, entitled "before" and "after", and that each section within those is introduced by the number of days before or after this pivotal event that I'm not going to reveal because that would spoil the suspense. That helped draw me in because I wanted to know what we were counting down towards. But also, I was drawn in by how interesting the characters were. Which I guess is kind of what drew Miles to Alaska also.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. And it was a pretty quick read too. Now I need to find something else to occupy me for the last three hours of this flight...