Turtles All the Way Down, spirals all the way out
Turtles All the Way Down, spirals all the way out Book: Turtles all the Way Down; Author: John Green; Listened to on audiobook Finished January 2023 Like all the books on this blog, I liked it... but this one I liked just ok . This is a YA book, but I don't think I would have made it through the book at that age. The protagonist has compulsive thoughts that spiral out of control — with the main worry being an irrational fear of acquiring a C. diff infection, but also a more existential compulsive worry that she as doesn't really exist in a sense. Part of this later fear comes from her lack of ability to control her own thoughts (so she has little confidence in her abilities of self-agency), and part comes from the factoid that non-human cells (like bacteria) outnumber human cells in the human body. So there's a lot to read through along the lines of "am I even me if I'm mostly made up of microbes?" When I was younger I likely wouldn't have had the pa...