Reading Response: The Fault in Our Stars

~This reading response is being used as a makeup for a writer's notebooks I have not done.~

Honestly, I did not understand all the hype about this book, just like many other books such as The Hunger Games. But, after being able to obtain the book thanks to my dear friend for letting me borrow it, I fell in love with this book.

I have never been so into a book in my life before, and I ended up finishing the whole thing in two days! (This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is a huge accomplishment to me.)

I think I will ramble on about how the book has affected me and then I will actually talk about the book (with spoilers) in a different reading response.

     Ms. James always encouraged us to read more because that will help improve our writing...I seriously had a hard time believing that to be true. Mostly because I am a slow reader and have trouble with finding time to get a good book to read. After being given TFiOS, and devouring the emotions and feelings of the book word for word, I found myself writing and even thinking like John Green. It was pretty scary, but I was totally okay with that.

     It was weird being able to connect with a cancer patient like Hazel Grace, but we had the same thought process.  She has lung cancer and has to be hooked up to a machine to help her breathe 24/7. She ends up meeting this cute guy named Augustus Waters and he has cigarettes that he just keeps in his mouth but not light up. He basically reassures Hazel that it is a metaphor saying "And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing."

     Hazel viewed him disappointingly because she cannot stand people that smoke to ruin their lungs when she does not get the chance to have good lungs. I am on the same page as her---having really bad asthma myself and being transported in and out of the ER for most of my childhood, I do not understand why people would ruin their perfectly fine lungs when some of us are already stuck with bad ones.

I just really fell in love with this book and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to read a new good book that will sink them into the plot.


The Theme Song of this Reading Response is:
Ski Lodge - Anything To Hurt You