The Fault in Our Stars in DC Public Library

Dec 04, 2012 Meg - A Bookish Affair rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, young-adult

"The Fault in Our Stars" is a book that I waited much, much too long to read. It is so good and I really wish that I had read it earlier just because it is so absolutely fantastic. I feel like I might have been one of the few people out there that hadn't read this book and for the few of This book moved me in a lot of ways that I haven't been moved by a book in awhile. I don't know where to even start with talking about this book because

I love the characters in this book so much. Hazel and Augus ...more

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Jan 29, 2012 Christina rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2012, ya, made-me-cry, 2014

A book about teenagers with cancer? Sounds intense. It is. Well done, of course, because it's John Green, but definitely not a light read.

Re-read February 2014 after the movie trailer made me cry. Still made me sob. The Overcapitalization of Significant Things still annoyed me, but that's a pretty small quibble. Overall I loved Hazel and Augustus and Isaac and Hazel's parents, and getting to spend time with them. ...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Jennifer rated it liked it

Hazel has cancer, and eventually it will kill her. She understands this and has come to accept it, even if those around her try not to focus on it. When she meets Augustus, a boy who lost his leg to cancer and is now cancer-free, she embarks on a whirlwind romance that takes her to the Netherlands to visit her favorite book's author.

Balancing a book about cancer with wicked humor is a difficult thing to do, and Green has done so. I'm happy that he finally veered from his unattainable girl/road t ...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Jeanine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, ya, soul-crushing, illness

This is a fantastic book! I LOVED it. It is on my list of favorites for sure. The characters are sweet. The story is sad, realistic, and touching. And the thoughts and feelings of the book are right on. Such a good read!!! Highly recommend it!

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Jan 06, 2012 Kirstin rated it liked it

Shelves: library, cybils2012

Hazel Lancaster, age 16, knows she’s dying. She’s come back from the edge before, from the moment when her parents held a vigil at her bedside believing each breath would be her last. And most days she’s, well, okay with it would be wrong, but as okay with it as you can be when you’re supposed to be counting the rest of your life in decades and when dating and college decisions are supposed to be the biggest hurdles in your immediate future. But she’d rather live out her life in the small circle Hazel Lancaster, age 16, knows she’s dying. She’s come back from the edge before, from the moment when her parents held a vigil at her bedside believing each breath would be her last. And most days she’s, well, okay with it would be wrong, but as okay with it as you can be when you’re supposed to be counting the rest of your life in decades and when dating and college decisions are supposed to be the biggest hurdles in your immediate future. But she’d rather live out her life in the small circle she’s created — hanging out with her folks, taking classes at the local community college, and enduring the treacly support group sessions her mom makes her attend — than create new relationships that will only cause pain when they inevitably end.

So it’s highly ironic when the support group that her parents force her to go to — where the heretofore high point had been exchanging heavy sighs with half-blind Isaac at every excruciating moment of cheese — brings her into contact with hot ex-basketball player and cancer survivor Augustus Waters, who immediately begins a flirtatious relationship by comparing her to Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta.

They bond over their favorite books (his is a sci-fi series with a high body count featuring a hero who routinely escapes from near death adventures; hers is a high-art YA book about a girl with cancer that ends mid-sentence). They flirt. They play video games. They try to help Isaac deal with the loss of his sight and his girlfriend. They establish relationship boundaries and then attempt skirmishes at them to see how well they hold. (Augustus agrees to friendship, but no one has any doubt that he wants Hazel for a girlfriend. Hazel doesn’t want to cause him pain when she dies, so she insists that they can only be friends.) And then, “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

If the book, like life, is doomed to follow a single path that we, as readers, know it must take from shortly after the outset, it does so compassionately and with the knowledge that just because an ending has been pre-ordained does not mean that we can’t mark the milestones, enjoy the company, or find some answers along the way. ...more

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Apr 12, 2012 Lizzie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, tough-topics, audiobook, health

Amazing. Don't want to reveal the plot too much, but this another knockout for John Green. I listened to the audiobook by Kate Rudd. Rudd did an amazing job with all of the YA characters especially capturing Hazel's emotional complexity and physical condition. Rudd's tone was never over the top or maudlin, which fit Green's writing perfectly. There is also an interview at the end where Green explains that he created two audiobook versions. He says the one he narrated is for NerdFighter fan base ...more

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Mar 13, 2012 June rated it really liked it

Shelves: death, love, tragedy

This is a very poignant, sad, laugh out loud book. It took me a while to pick it up. It is a very difficult topic for me. However, I found Hazel to be a very well rounded character as well as her friends.

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Jan 01, 2013 Emilie rated it really liked it

Shelves: teen-fiction, books-to-tv-movies

I love all of John Green's books, and this one is no exception. I don't think that there is anything that I can add to the reviews that have already been written...though, to be honest, I don't think this is Green's best work...I still think that would be Looking for Alaska, which is finally getting some well deserved attention thanks to this book despite winning the Printz Award many years back. ...more

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Apr 06, 2013 Keets rated it really liked it

Warning: this book made me cry in public. A touching story about two teens who fall in love while struggling with the meaning of life and death. It followed a predictable path, but had some lovely quotes.

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