This is a really beautiful book.
John Green writes about a 16-year-old girl named Hazel who meets a 17-year-old boy named Augustus at a kid's cancer support group in the basement of a church (the literal heart of Jesus). It's laugh out loud funny, romantic, and very touching. I read this 313 page book within a 30 hour period - yeah, that's a rarity for me. It usually takes me forever to read a book, but I had to know what happened next. I said "one more chapter" like, oh 25 times.
Hazel reads the same book over and over again and has terminal cancer, so her parents think she needs to go to a church support group to make friends. Augustus Waters has one leg and enjoys holding an unlit cigarette between his lips to feel the killing thing but not give it the power to kill, as a metaphor. Kinda like putting a loaded gun in your mouth but not pulling the trigger, except it's a little less shocking and less dangerous with the cigarette embodiment of the metaphor. I started reading this book because they're making a movie with Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as Hazel and Augustus respectively (it comes out this June). I'm excited to see what they do with this amazing story, but I expect the book will be the better of the two (that's usually how it is). What a read, definitely check it out.
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