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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Start date: March 1, 2014

Finish date: March 31, 2014

Discussion: Group Read Archive 2014-16

Why we're reading this: YA/Genre Group Read - March 2014
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What Members Thought

Feb 18, 2014 Lucy Mason rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, ya-and-children, 2014-reading-challenge, 2014

Immersive and bleak, but not as sad as The Book Thief.

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May 10, 2014 Miranda Moberg Diaz rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, romance, contemporary, dark-and-twisty

A good read, but a depressing one that doesn't leave a lot of hope at the end of it. Maybe it's better that way; maybe as Green points out, life doesn't always give us closure or a definitive ending.

One of my favorite lines from this was "Time's a real slut; she screws everyone."

The book also questions the Shakespearean quote "The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves; that we are underlyings." I've always loved that quote and the comfort in feeling nothing in life is beyond our control ...more

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Dec 19, 2013 Bouchra Rebiai rated it really liked it

Shelves: 101-in-1001-days-2, read-in-2014

Great book, my first by John Green. I'd heard a lot of awesome things about him, and I'm glad I finally got around to reading one of his books.

Hazel Grace is a 16 year old girl with a not-so-perfect life, just like many teenagers today. Her life's shortcoming mainly concentrates on one thing: a Stage IV thyroid cancer diagnosis 3 years ago.

Her life is mainly lonely, except for her parents, the occasional outing with her former classmates, and the cancer support group, which she begrudgingly atte ...more

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