Book Club - "The Fault in Our Stars"

Today in book club we discussed our first read, John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars". This book is by far one of my favorites from the past year. I really loved it. I found it emotional, both sad and joyful, and perfectly written. It was definitely not a great classic, but it was a simple, entertaining, capturing book. Several of my favorite quotes are below.

 I wrote a review for this book as I really do love it. Here it is:

The ISK book club’s first read was John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, a book we called “captivating”, “heart-wrenching”, and “intricately beautiful”. The book brought tears to our eyes, and yet managed to have a lot us laughing through most of it. John Green does a marvelous job of turning a story of two teenagers with cancer into an adventure of sorts. He begins by introducing us to his main characters, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, and letting the readers into their lives. Hazel is a 16-year-old girl living with cancer; Augustus is a cancer survivor (spoiler alert: they fall in love). Their story takes us to Amsterdam and into the life of Hazel’s favorite author, whose book kept her sane through the months of treatment and depression her cancer caused her. Yes, this book is about cancer, but it is also about love. It is about the most confusing, frustrating, brilliant and beautiful parts of life.  There is disappointment, sadness and unwillingness to live. But there is also laughter, happiness, joy, and hope. Most of all, John Green does an excellent job of keeping his reader entertained, whether it be in laughter or tears.

We, as readers, are meant to feel things while reading. It means that we are intended to become completely invested in the piece of literature before us, and The Fault in Our Stars did exactly that. It made us feel. And just as Hazel describes falling in love, we thought about the book in this way: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”