*This review is from the archives of my old blog. I wanted to save some of the old posts from extinction so I thought I would transfer them here. I thought it would be ok because there are a lot of new/different faces around these parts. Win, win? I think so.
* I love reading books and reviewing them but I got tired of doing the same old boring book reviews so I haven’t done one for a while. So, going forward I am going to be trying something different to get that spark back. 🙂
Hey Mom, it’s me again. You know how I always avoid books/movies about cancer because I just find it too hard. I can’t even bring myself to finish the book that was I reading when we said our good-byes. It has been touched by cancer too so it sits on a shelf waiting. No amount of time has seemed long enough to pick it back up to finish it but I just can’t get rid of it either. Well, I finally read one. Ya, I know.
When I first heard about The Fault in Our Stars I didn’t think I wouldn’t be able to read it even though I must admit I was curious. Then it got huge. Everyone was reading it. Everyone was raving about 16 year old Hazel Grace, her courageous battle with terminal cancer and the gorgeous Augustus Waters that walks into her life and changes it forever. I started to falter in my reserve to not put myself through the pain. I wanted to be brave enough to read it. I wanted to go see the movie. So, I must read the book.
Finally, there I was with my big girl panties on nervous but downloading it onto to my Kobo. I started reading and I was bawling before the end of the first chapter. I haven’t been this emotional over a book since well…ever. I started to wonder if it was a good idea to go on but I was already hooked. Yes, right there in the first chapter. Hazel describing her situation that was so scarily close to what we went through with you. I needed to know more, to know it all. I needed to know how it ended. I devoured that book in one sitting.
John Green wove hope into a situation where there isn’t any, joy into times of sorrow and it was devastatingly beautiful. I smiled, then cried, then laughed out loud then, bawled big ugly hardly breathing tears. I fell in love and had my heartbroken. TFIOS is quirky, poignant and masterful. It was restorative for me. Although, I know no matter how much time passes I will never fully recover from losing you, it helped me heal a little bit more.
I am so glad I had the courage to read it. I know there was a time when I would have passed it to you to read as well. Everyone should read it. Although I know it will be beautifully painful, I can’t wait to see the movie. I will not forget my case of Kleenex.
Love Always,
*Wow, this post sure has a lot side notes. I have since seen and loved the movie. Such a powerful story. I think they did an amazing job bringing it to live on the screen.
