Bookish Thoughts

I'd been hearing extraordinary things about John Green's latest novel, The Fault in Our Stars , for a while. They were good enough and numerous enough that I finally decided I simply couldn't wait for the paperback edition. And holy crap you guys, this book. This book . Emotional whiplash in the best possible way. It only took me 14 pages to fall so in love with the main character that I was weeping. A few pages after that the tears turn to laughter. And then Hazel Grace Lancaster went and punched me in the gut with this line: I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.) The rest of the book was a similar roller coaster ride of emotions as Hazel deals with the cancer that is going to kill her (probably sooner than later) and with the fact that she migh...

I first learned of John Green when I came across this quote "...because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don't have to be like, 'Oh yeah that purse is okay' or like, 'Yeah, I like that band's early stuff.' Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can't-control-yourself-love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they are saying is, 'You like stuff', which is just not a good insult at all, like 'You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness'." There's also this one: Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' How fantastically true are these quotes? (an...