Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Fault in Our Stars

My copy of the Fault in Our Stars

My copy of An Abundance of Katherines

Hank Green signed his exclusive tour cd <3

I'm the one in the pink circle. And the red circle is John Green signing my book! yay!
Sooo I saw John and Hank Green at the Tour de Nerdfighting 2012. It was absolutely amazing. I had so much fun. I saw them in the flesh! My friend bought me a ticket to see them for christmas. We went on Wednesday, into NYC. I recorded it all so you can go on my Youtube to see them all if you would like.

I finished TFIOS (The Fault in Our Starts) today, this morning. It was so good. Definitely John Green's best work so far. Although, I quite enjoyed An Abundance of Katherines. 
John Green has inspired me to write a book. I'm sort of doing that. I just don't have the time and I'm in a kinda writer's block. HEY. The Fault in Our Stars took John Green 13 years to write. So.

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The Fault In Our Stars Tour

Click the Link to watch!  (At the current moment the videos are still uploading. But they should be up soon)
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I took these next two photos off my friend's FB.
John Green reading from the Fault in Our Stars
Hank Green playing a song
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Hank Singing "This Isn't Hogwarts"


Other Nerdfighter blogposts:
Don't Know what Nerdfighteria is? Or what DFTBA stands for? 
 This isn't John Green's first book! Need to Update Yourself on His Previous Novels?

Sunday, January 08, 2012

John Green

It's John Green Week!

Okay. Yeah It has been for the past 5 days.. but I sort of forgot.. maybe. No, don't get me wrong. I didn't forget out The Fault in Our Stars. I've been keeping up with my Vlogbrothers videos. Here, you can watch the author read Chapter One of TFIOS.

On Wednesday, my friend got me a ticket to go to John Green's book signing (Hank's gonna be there too!) I'm very excited.

Am I the only one who thinks at least one of John Green's books should be a movie?

 Looking for Alaska: "Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their nucleus is razor-sharp, sexy, and self-destructive Alaska, who has perfected the arts of pranking and evading school rules. Pudge falls impossibly in love. When tragedy strikes the close-knit group, it is only in coming face-to-face with death that Pudge discovers the value of living and loving unconditionally.
John Green's stunning debut marks the arrival of a stand-out new voice in young adult fiction."-Amazon

Will Grayson, Will Grayson: "One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, Will Grayson crosses paths with . . . Will Grayson. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, and culminating in epic turns-of-heart and the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high school stage. Told in alternating voices from two YA superstars, this collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart and humor that have won them both legions of fans."-Amazon
 The Fault in our Stars: " Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love." -Amazon
An Abundance of Katherines: "When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washedup child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy–loving best friend riding shotgun—but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl. Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself."- Amazon
Paper Towns: "Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues - and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew."-Amazon







I just finished watching John Green read the first chapter of TFIOS on Youtube. And I have to say. I am impressed and very excited. Normally, John Green seems to have the same sort of basic plot. But this one is different and it's really good.

John Green is a really good writer and he has inspired me to write my own story (I'm working on it! I just don't have any time. and I'm stuck. soooo.. after my midterm exams I'll do that.) Love you John Green! See you on Wednesday. DFTBA.

Monday, January 02, 2012

Books I've Read in 2012

In the order in which they were read:

  1. Hiroshima by John Hersey **** (a little hard to follow, because of the amount of characters) (1/1/12)
  2. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult ***** (1/7/12)
  3. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green ***** (1/15/12) [I wrote a post about this]
  4. The City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare **** (1/22/12)
  5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky * (not my cup of tea) (1/25/12) 
  6. Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles ***** (2/4/12) 
  7. Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles ***** (2/7/12) 
  8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ***** (2/16/12) 
  9. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks **** (3/14/12) [plot, characters, climax, and everything was amazing, but the first 100 pages were a brutally slow read]
  10. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson ****'(3/23/12)
  11. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han ****' (3/25/12)
  12. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne ***** (3/31/12) 
  13. Macbeth by William Shakespeare ** (4/18/12) 
  14. Fences by August Wilson **** (4/19/12)
  15. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ***** (5/28/12)
  16. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith **** (6/25/12)
  17. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ****** (7/14/12) [reread]
  18. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls **** (7/29/12)
  19. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien **** (8/18/12)
  20. Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway ***** (8/29/12) 
  21. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles ***** (10/29/12)
  22. Waiting for You by Susane Colasanti **' (11/1/12)
  23. Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz ** (11/4/12)
  24. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne **' (12/14/12)
  25. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones **** (12/19/12) 


     



Book Reviews:
This one is on the Perfect Chemistry Series.

This one is on the Hunger Games!




Goal was to read 25 books by the end of the year! YAY! i win.