When I picked up the book, I didn’t know anything about Hazel Grace or Augustus Waters, and I thought I’d just see what my daughter loved so much that she had lines from the book covering her wall on handwritten sticky notes. I didn’t know it was about a whip-smart, wordy girl with a giant chip on her shoulder who has cancer, probably terminal, who meets an impossibly cool, equally whip-smart and verbose young man who helps her figure out what living on your own terms is really about, and along the way takes her to Amsterdam on the most impossible trip during which they get a chance to taste the stars. But I hadn’t heard about the plot at all. What a huge success it was and what a wonderful guy the author is. Like everyone, even those without teenage daughters, I had heard about this book. I crossed my own invisible boundary on a snowy Saturday when my daughters were with their father for the weekend and, while cleaning their room, took down a copy (of the many, some in foreign languages) that my daughter has on her special John Green shelf and started to read. I wanted that mom to know she should read this book. But then I thought, maybe there is someone out there like me: a mom, whose daughters loved the book, but was someone who didn’t want to cross the invisible parent/child boundary and read a book that was precious to her kids and thus off-limits to her. I wanted to write a review about THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green because I really loved this book but I worried about how to write a review for a book that has become so iconic and that so many people have read-I worried that I wouldn’t have anything new to say.
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