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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Start date: January 12, 2015

Finish date: January 15, 2015

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last updated Dec 16, 2014 09:22AM

Free copy of Proximity Factor this July, no reviews required. Just enjoy.
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Feb 01, 2012 Maryanne rated it it was amazing

Beautiful and devastating. And like all John Green's books - not to be read in public unless weeping in public doesn't bother you. ...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Kaitlin rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, ya

I liked this book, I cried when I read it and I enjoyed the characters, but sometimes I felt like the emotions were cheap... too clever or something? Don't get me wrong, I think it was a great read, but I like other books I've read by John Green better. ...more

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Apr 15, 2012 Gwennie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: teens

Beautiful and wrenching. And I am very irked at the colleagues who recommended it,because they did not also provide tissues.

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Mar 19, 2012 Ms. McGregor rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ya, spirituality, philosophy, drama

John Green has done it again. He's written a refreshingly honest and respectful book - not just about teens, but about young love, grief, family, friendship, dying, and the small moments in life that offer hope even in the darkest of times. This book is sweet, funny, heartbreaking, surprising and predictable - hmmm, which is a lot like what it's really like to be sixteen. ...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Erika rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult

OK, so obviously this book is going to be sad. I mean, it’s a book about two teenagers with cancer, so melancholy and the infinite sadness is basically a given. However, what is so dazzlingly spectacular about this book is that it is simultaneously really, really sad and really, really hilarious. John Green, who already has one Printz under his belt for Looking for Alaska,tackles this incredibly difficult subject matter with his trademark snark and wit tempered with a sensitivity toward and unde ...more

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