November 18, 2012
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Week 47: The Fault in Our Stars
Strangely, I actually added this book to my to-read list because it was by the same author as another book I added to my to-read list, An Abundance of Katherines, which I had added because of the title's similarity to a book I had previously enjoyed, Eleven Karens.
And then I had recently started following a tumblr account... actually I cannot remember how I stumbled across it in the first place. Possibly some Harry Potter/Emma Watson posts. Anyway, this person kept talking and talking about TFIOS. They also talked a lot about Delirium which I wrote briefly about here. Anyway, at her (general) recommendation, I had followed a link to a free online copy of Delirium, read it, and enjoyed it. So when I found a free copy of The Fault in Our Stars on the same website, I bookmarked it.
Finally got around to reading it. I started it at night and then just stayed up a bit past my bedtime to finish it. I was completely surprised by the main characters. I guess I expected a sort of Romeo and Juliet type star-crossed lovers story, but not in the way that John Green actually did it.
A lot of the quotations that stuck out I recognized from being repeated by the tumblr TFIOS fandom. And I agree that they are the sort of quotations you would latch onto, and probably deserve the attention. John Green has a way of repeating a theme without making it overdone, and that helps strengthen some of the quotations too.
