Well here is an attempt at a review...
For those who haven't read the book, but plan to I would recommend that you finish anything you need to get done (pets walked, food made, fav shows set up on DVR, also grabbing a box of tissues might be a good idea) before your start reading, because once you begin reading you will NOT want to stop.
The first time I read this book, I did so in one night, it both warmed and broke my heart, it also brought laughter, sadness, and plenty tears. I had a hard time wrapping my head around parts of it. the second time made most of what the Author was trying to convey through the story make sense. The Fault in out Stars is one of the best books I have read in the past year.
An in-depth thought on the book...
John Green tackles the major questions of existence with humor, honesty, and grace. Hazel is dealing with a terminal form of cancer and yet this is not a story about dying but rather a story about truly living. Through the lives of the two main characters Green shows us that we are all in fact terminal, but that we largely decide how to spend our brief moments of life. Most lives are not triumphs or tragedies purely, but they are filled with moments of both.
Looking at our lives we are given such a short time, and most of us waste so much of that time with the busyness of day to day life, that we often forget to cherish the small things. Things such as being able to breath on our own, I never realized how lucky I am not to have to worry about things like the characters in this book deal with on a day to day basis.
