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The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Start date: March 1, 2013

Finish date: March 31, 2013

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Oct 05, 2013 Pam rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, indiana, ya-fiction

AUTHOR: GREEN, John
TITLE: The Fault In Our Stars
Date Read: 10/01/13
RATING: 5/A
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS: YA/2012/Dutton/313 pgs
SERIES/STAND ALONE: S/A

TIME/PLACE: Present/Indiana
CHARACTERS: Hazel Grace/17-yr-old w/ thyroid cancer; Augustus Waters/bone cancer

FIRST LINES: Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over & over, ate infrequently, & devoted qui ...more

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Jun 29, 2014 Jackie Wayment rated it liked it · review of another edition

Firstly, I love John Green. I adore his vlog, his wit and his charisma. And I saw his vlog about Esther and I also read his author's note.
I think I get what he was trying to do, and if I had experienced the sort of things that Mr. Green had, I would want to process and somehow share what I had gained by those experiences as well.
I think if I had read it 10 years ago (read YA years), I would have loved it. I didn't love this book, but I thought it was good enough and mostly enjoyable - I read it ...more

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