An Abundance Of Katherines

An Abundance of Katherine’s is about a high school senior named Colin Singleton, a child prodigy. Colin not only had a knack for science but he dated exactly nineteen girls and all of them were named Katherine. Not just any Katherine, it couldn’t be a Katherine nicknamed Katy. It had to be Katherine, spelt K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. Out of nineteen Katherine’s Colin had been dumped every single time. Coming out of the worst breakup yet, Colin felt awful he was alone once again. His Arab friend Hassan had a great idea, they were to go on a road trip. This was to clear their heads and find adventure.
After driving for along time they decided to follow a sign that lead them to Archduke Franz Ferdinad. Not expecting to stay long they meet a girl name Lindsey Lee Wells when Colin tripped over his own feet. Lindsey brought him home and her mother said that she had a job for them. Lindsey’s mom owned a factory that makes tampon strings. Accepting the job offer, Colin and Hassan decide to stay with Hollis and Lindsey. Meanwhile Colin was trying to find meaning in his life, and meaning for the nineteen Katherine’s. Why had they all dumped him? Colin, being the genius he is decided to make a mathematical formula for all the Katherine’s. There was something missing though, Colin couldn’t figure out why K-3 (Katherine the third) was not working with the equation. He later called her and found out he had dumped her, he was not the “dumpee” in all of his relationships. After two months with the Wells’ family, Colin finds an unexpected romance. I’ll leave it at that because I don’t want to spoil the ending.
I really enjoyed this book, I think it had a lot of comedy in it. I enjoyed the way Colin invented a graph to predict how his relationships were going to pan-out. I think the author wrote it very well. There were some words that I did not understand, a lot of them were in different languages, but the author included a foot note that contained information to help understand the story better. Another thing that I enjoyed is that he gave the characters a habit. Colin would constantly anagram any word that came to mind, which was comical during certain situations. That was also another reason why he got dumped. Lindsey Lee Wells had the habit of chewing the inside of her thumb and Hassan was always concerned if what he was doing was okay with the lord. There were also some things I did not like, I didn’t like how the author didn’t “finish” the story. It doesn’t say exactly how the book ends but it isn’t made to be a sequel. That was the only thing I didn’t like about the book, I really enjoyed reading An Abundance of Katherine’s and I consider it one of my favorites.
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