Independent Reading: The Abundance of Katherines by John Green

I have just recently started reading the book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. But so far I have learned about the main character, Colin. Colin seems to be a very devoted pessimist, almost as if he likes being negative and wouldn't want to view the positive even if he could try. Colin views himself as a prodigy, not a genius. His view is  that "prodigies can very quickly learn what people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do." He just has gotten dumped by the 19th "Katherine" that he's dated. His main goal is to feel important, he wants "to matter". He feels useless now, though I'm not really sure why. To me it seems like if he's dated 19 different Katherines, let alone different people, he has some kind of lack of feeling or emotion, or he just gets over people really fast. Or maybe he has some kind of fault that is always causing these break ups. Gathering from the information on the back of the book, it seems like that's what Colin is going to try to do. Colin is starting up on a road trip with his best friend, Hassan who believes that this will help him get over Katherine XIX. I think Colin is starting to fall, very quickly, for a tour guide that Hassan and him meet on their adventure. He describes her scent by saying, "It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked-not exactly. It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell the perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not it's smell on the skin but it's sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving." He reads really deep into her smell, I don't think he would do that if this was just his tour guide. Colin also reacts to her smile. He takes notice to it. "She had the sort of smile that you couldn't help but believe--you just wanted to make her happy so you could keep seeing it." and "The girl smiled again. Colin wadn't thnking about anything but himself and K-19 and the piece of his gut he'd misplace--but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer." He is way overexplaining her smile, not to mention the fact that she kind of distracted him from thinking about his last break up. Therefore I think that Colin has more than just aquainted feelings with this girl and could potentially become a love interest. Maybe Colin needs someone other than a Katherine.