The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

[Terri M. LeBlanc]

This book has been on my to-read list since January 2012. I hit a lull in my reading cycle and couldn't even settle down to finish the book I'm currently reading, [b:Motherless Child|13237060|Motherless Child|Marianne Langner Zeitlin|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1328774761s/13237060.jpg|18434883]. Usually when this happens I browse my wishlist and make a whim purchase of a book that I've been hoping that someone would purchase for me for an upcoming holiday, birthday or just cause you are cool present. No such luck, as you probably figured out, since I added in January and purchased it for myself in July. Maybe I need to be more forceful with my friends and family about wanting books or gift cards to bookstores as presents. Anyway, I digress.

The last time I cried this much reading a book was a very long time ago when I read [b:A Taste of Blackberries|252000|A Taste of Blackberries|Doris Buchanan Smith|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173151516s/252000.jpg|244189] by Doris Buchanan Smith. I highlighted so many passages and individual quotes one would think I was back in English Survey 101 which was also a long time ago. It's books like this that make me continue reading. There is brutal honesty in this narrative and only a hard hearted person would not cry at the end.