Monday, July 22, 2013

The Fault In Our Stars



When I first got this book, I was at sleep away camp in the Adirondcks with NOTHING to read. I had read, re-read, and re-re-read all my books. Naturally, I was in a full-phased emergency here. A kid (a nerd) like me WITHOUT BOOKS FOR 5 MORE DAYS?! Unacceptable. So I wrote to my parents, explaining the situation as carefully as I could. (I didn't want to worry them). They sent me 5 books, one of them being The Fault In Our Stars. I read this one last, but I tell you that they could have sent me  that one book and I would've been fine. As the blurb on the cover states, "You laugh, you cry, then you come back for more." I agree: you start off smiling, then later put your hand over your forehead and lean on your elbow, crying, and then you feel as if you MUST read it again. You must be thinking, oh my GOD just tell us what the stinking book is about! Well here it is:


This is the story of 16-year-old Hazel Lancaster. But it's more than a story. Hazel has lung cancer.
    
First diagnosed when she was 13, she's hooked up to an oxygen tank that breathes for her. This is hard, as you can imagine, so her mom sends her to Support Group where she meets Isaac, who is about to be blind, and Augustus, a kinda-sorta cancer "survivor". This "survival" included a loss of his leg. The three become tight friends (Hazel and Augustus a little more than friends), when all of a sudden, Hazel and Augustus are driven on a wild adventure to Amsterdam to discover the secrets of their favorite book, An Imperial Affliction that leaves Augustus with a one-sided situation about life and death.

Ages: 13+
You'll like this if you like: I'm going to be honest here: there aren't really any books with a similar plot line to this one. But I guess the book See You At Harry's is slightly similar. SLIGHTLY.
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                                           The Fault In Our Stars

9 comments:

  1. I have a copy of this sitting on my shelf just waiting to be read. Should I move it to the top of my pile? Is it THAT good???

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    1. Totally. It's amazing! It's really sad, thought.

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  2. Dear Nerd Alert,

    This is my favorite blog ever.

    Sincerely yours,

    Charles

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  3. Great posts! I enjoy reading these!

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  4. Hey Nerd Alert, I wonder if you've read or heard of a novel called IF I STAY. It's by Gayle Foreman and it's one of my FAVORITE YA novels. If you liked THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, I think you might like IF I STAY. Let me know if you read it!

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  5. Hi Nerd Alert. Thank you for this book recommendation, which I am really loving. Especially this paragraph: "We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture."

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  6. First, I really need to read this book. Second, as a total book nerd (since I was a kid and still to this day) I must say how awesome this blog is. Maybe if there were blogs when I was a kid (oh quite a while ago) I would've wanted one just like this. When my daughter is old enough to read blogs, I'm sending her here. Keep up the awesome need work!
    -Dana, mom of 2, and a perpetual book nerd

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    1. Um, that would be nerd work, thank you spellcheck.

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