"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Another book club read. I knew what I was getting into with this one when I agreed to read it at the book club meeting. I put off reading it, because I knew I was going to cry at some point while reading this book. That being said, it was a well-written story. The author pulled you in and kept you engaged with the characters. It was tough for me to read about these young people and what they are going through.

Excerpts:

“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.” – John Green in "The Fault in Our Stars"

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice [...] – John Green in "The Fault in Our Stars"

This quote...

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

...comes up in the book and enotes.com goes into more detail about the full quote (as this is a piece of the full quote), but this is what they say about it that makes it feel more relevant to me when discussing this book:

[...] fate is not what drives men to their decisions and actions, but rather the human condition. – enotes.com (http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/fault-dear-brutus-our-stars)