Mostly ’s Comments (group member since Jun 26, 2012)

Mostly ’s comments from the YA Reads with Mostly Books group.

Here are a few questions to ponder while you read. Feel free to leave your response(s) when you are ready.

1. What do you think of Hazel as a narrator? Is she a well developed character? Is she a reliable narrator?

2. In what ways do Augustus, Hazel, and Isaac fight to keep cancer from defining who they are? How do they work to prevent it from consuming all aspects of them? What benefits come from attending the support group?

3. How does Hazel and the other support group members' stories define them? If you move beyond your own personal story, do you become someone else?

4. Discuss the parent/child relationships in the story. To what extent are the relationships of these characters shaped by the world around them? To what extent do their relationship shape that world?

5. Discuss the importance of the novel An Imperial Affliction to the story. Why is Hazel so desperate to find out what happens beyond the ending?

Life has been a little crazy for me this month, so I have to apologize I am behind on my reading. Feel free to start posting any thoughts you may have regarding The Fault in Our Stars and I will post questions in a few days.

Here are few questions to think about while you are reading. Feel free to leave your response(s) when you are ready.

1. How do you feel about Day and June? Are they strong characters that have been developed or are they flat? Did you like June and Day together?

2. Did you like the writing style that Lu uses? Did you have any opinion on the different colors of text? Were the dialogues and character interactions well done?

3. Did you like the story? Were you compelled to keep reading?

4. What was your favorite moment? Did you have a favorite quote?

5. Are you excited to read Prodigy when it comes out in January?

I haven't read that one yet. Thanks for the tip I will have to go check it out.

We have been enjoying Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin series as well as Carrie Ryan's Forest of Hands and Teeth series. I personally loved Melissa Marr's novel Graveminder. She shows you small glimpses of the world through a zombies dead eyes. It was great.

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Here are few questions to think about while you are reading. Leave your response(s) when you are ready.

1. Are the characters well developed? Are they believable? Was there enough tension between the two main characters?

2. Was it well written? Were you immediately sucked into the story?

3. Were you satisfied with the ending? Are you excited to read Rules of Attraction?

Did you like the book? Were the characters well developed? Was the story compelling to read and well written?

How would you describe Finn and Wendy's relationship? Do you see the two of them ever being able to function as a couple?

How does the idea of family impact Wendy's decisions?

Start leaving your first impressions of the book when you are ready.

If you have any book suggestions for our next reads, please leave them in this folder. Thank you.

We will begin our first goodreads book discussion with Amanda Hocking's novel Switched. This is book one in the Tyrlle series.