The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

[Jodi]

Shadow of the Wind has a really good rating. I will be interested in seeing what you think when you are done. I am going to start Finale tonight for my finish the series challenge. After that I think I will have to finish A Feast for Crows. It has dragged on for me. I love the Game of Thrones series but this one is my least favourite so far. Then it will be Children of the Mind to go towards my Ender's Game Series.

I need to really focus on series books for the series challenge.

[Laura]

Kathryn wrote: "I'm reading:
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and I'm finding it's D..R..A..G..G..I..N..G a little - I just can't get into it.
- One True Thing b..."

I am reading Room When I first started reading it I was having trouble getting into ok it, but I'm really enjoying it now.

[Jodi]

Room was one of those books that stayed with me for a long time after reading it. It was very disturbing. I think that was one book I couldn't stop reading.

[Albany]

I avoided this book ever since I heard the premise of it. I'm a pretty easy crier and just felt like it would be masochistic. Also I haven't read any YA fiction since I was about 16 (now 25) and in my close-mindedness thought YA was for YA and no one else. Anyway, I finally gave in and started reading it this morning and couldn't out it down. I didn't know that a lot of people had the same experience until I came on here and started reading everyone's comments but I guess I'm just one in a bunch who cried and got into the story more than I thought I would have. I think the reason for this is that Green makes it a pretty fast-paced book and it's a breeze to read. I may even wind up catching up on Green's backlog of work. That said, I WISH I had been that intelligent when I was 17 years old (I guess what someone said about them is true, though, illness may make them more open to better literature and a deeper way of thinking than other kids their age).

P.S. I read Shadow of the Wind in the original Spanish and adored it. The love of books that the characters have in the story made me connect with them in a big way. I kind of want to read the sequels but I've heard bad things.

[Kathryn]

Albany wrote: "I avoided this book ever since I heard the premise of it. I'm a pretty easy crier and just felt like it would be masochistic. Also I haven't read any YA fiction since I was about 16 (now 25) and in..."

Yes, I also thought I'd like to read something else of John Green's at some point after finishing this one. But after looking at the book descriptions for An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns and Will Grayson, Will Grayson, none of them really appeal to me much...

And maybe that's my problem with The Shadow of the Wind, Albany - maybe if I was reading it in Spanish it would be better. But since I can't read Spanish, it's a moot point, I guess!! Never mind, I'm plugging along anyway!