The Fault in Our Stars

What started out as a sad story, took me through a smooth ride down the lane of the life of a girl who is brought up in the arms of cancer, and who falls in love with a boy she meets in her cancer support group. The sad story transforms itself, with hilarious parts and heart wrenching paragraphs that describe the pains and joys of being in love, and in the throes of cells that are taking her away from the life she is leading, with every second; into a love story, and ultimately, into a story of hope.

It may not match up to the shadow of a Dorian Gray, but what the heck, it is worth a mention in the halls of the best quotes ever. Take, for example, “I called it a nine because I was saving my ten.” It Is something she says when she’s talking about how broken she is, emotionally, that it supersedes the pain even cancer can give.

In the romance front, she is a beautiful girl and falls in love with a great guy. Both have their flaws, but their lives revolve so much around the disease they breathe, that it is hard to point out those flaws in one read.

Give it a read. If you like it, you will read again; if you don’t like it, well, shame. But last I checked, hope is a universal subject.

Four.

http://thefaultinourstarspdf.com/ Yes, e-book friendly.

...Because Alaska sounds so good

When my friend suggested that I read Looking for Alaska, I did not go tearing into a book store to buy one, as he expected me to do; instead I downloaded the e-book that this maniacal reader suggested, like the equally voracious book reader that I am, after reading which I vowed to buy a copy. Alaska is a girl who seems to live as though she were perpetually preparing for something life changing. She studies in Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama where Miles Halter, the protagonist, joins to attend junior year – “...to seek a great perhaps.” 

He has a fetish for people's last words. Endearing in a morbid way, really, even to the other characters in the book.

Miles Halter makes friends, one of them being Alaska. As a fivesome, his friends and he pull off pranks- an annual tradition- at the school. The fun and frolic, with the smuggled alcohol and cigarettes, and the smart conversations they have around their 'coffee table', funnily enough, will resonate with teenagers and adults.

With extensive quotes from beautiful poems by great poets, in typical John Green fashion, the book keeps your curiosity alive, while it taps at your witty bone, with it not-so-parliamentary jokes and subtle humour. Looking for Alaska certainly shows you how and why John Green, the world historian and the charming writer can steal many a heart away with mere words.

Alaska steals your heart away. @John Green: Well done, with the character building.

I will leave you with what my friend said when I asked him for more such book recommendations “I just read it, I want it to sink in, it’ll take a while before I think about a next...”

Four and a half.