The egging was hysterical, especially when the mother came out of the house. I loved Hazel’s friend Kaitlyn’s line about Thin Mints. I would think that when you are going through something like this, you would need to find something humorous. There were a lot of wonderful laugh out loud moments. With The Fault In Our Stars, I couldn’t wait. I like to find out the story as it unfolds. When the final Harry Potter book was released, I avoided the news, internet, people, etc. Not that you can ever truly be prepared for death and dying. Not because I didn’t know what was going to happen, but because I wanted to be prepared for it. I read parts and found out what was going to happen. I was rooting that they got the chance to live life.Īs I was reading, I did something that I hardly ever–more like never–do, I skipped ahead.
It wasn’t rooting for a longer life, although that was part of it. It made me connect because it seemed more true. They were real, bitter, upset, trying to fight. The kids–Hazel, Augustus, Isaac–they didn’t sugarcoat anything. I couldn’t imagine being that age and facing my own mortality. I thought The Fault In Our Stars was very real, gritty. This book was as good as everyone had said. I heard a lot of great things about this book, and I was worried that I wouldn’t like it or that it wouldn’t live up to the hype. I am so glad that I took the time to read it. Lockhart, National Book Award Finalist and Printz Honor-winning author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and We Were Liarsĭid I enjoy this book: This is one of those books that I have been wanting to read for quite some time. "John Green is one of the best writers alive." Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Sing You Home "The Fault in Our Stars takes a spin on universal themes-Will I be loved? Will I be remembered? Will I leave a mark on this world?-by dramatically raising the stakes for the characters who are asking." Markus Zusak, bestselling and Printz Honor-winning author of The Book Thief You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more." "A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. Green's story of lovers who aren't so much star-crossed as star-cursed leans on literature's most durable assets: finely wrought language, beautifully drawn characters and a distinctive voice." "You know, even as you begin the tale of their young romance, that the end will be 100 kinds of awful, not so much a vale as a brutal canyon of tears. "In its every aspect, this novel is a triumph." " shows us true love-two teenagers helping and accepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals-and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach."
"John Green deftly mixes the profound and the quotidian in this tough, touching valentine to the human spirit." reminds you that sometimes when life feels like it's ending, it's actually just beginning."
You will be thankful for the little infinity you spend inside this book." " voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. , a Best Book selection and one of "5 Books Every Woman Needs to Read Before Her Next Birthday"
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But it isn't until she meets Augustus in a support group that she understands how to love or live fully." Sixteen-year-old Hazel faces terminal cancer with humor and pluck. "Because we all need to feel first love again. "A smarter, edgier Love Story for the Net Generation." "A story about two incandescent kids who will live a long time in the minds of the readers who come to know them." "This is a book that breaks your heart-not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts." The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it's also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness." -Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR THE FAULT IN OUR STARS