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:
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 This isn't John Green's first book! Need to Update Yourself on His Previous Novels?

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.

John Green Week

Hi.
There's this thing called John Green week from January 3rd to January 10th, leading up to his new novel, The Fault in Our Stars, or "TFIOS" as it's known in nerdfighteria.
I have a lot of explaining to do.

"John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages.

In 2007, Green and his brother Hank ceased textual communication and began to talk primarily through videoblogs posted to youtube. The videos spawned a community of people called nerdfighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerdfighters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.) Although they have long since resumed textual communication, John and Hank continue to upload three videos a week to their youtube channel, vlogbrothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 75 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. He is also an active (if reluctant) Twitter user with more than 1.1 million followers."

There. That pretty much explained it all.

Also since I can't explain it better myself: Taken from "Vickiiatoria"

"BROTHERHOOD 2.0: A project undertaken by John and Hank Green, in which they were not allowed to communicate via text for a year. ‘Two Brothers, One Video Blog, 365 Days of Textless Communication, It’s a whole new kind of brotherhood.’

DFTBA: An acronym usually meaning Don’t Forget To Be Awesome, though it has an unimaginable number of meanings. Some of which can be found here. It is often used as a farewell by Nerdfighters. If said to you it should be seen as a compliment, as the person saying it has recognised that you are in fact made of AWESOME. It is also the name of a record company founded by Hank Green and Alan Lastufka that signs youtube artists whose talents may otherwise go unrecognised.

Hank Green

 

HANK GREEN: The younger brother of John Green, musician, co-founder of Nerdfighteria with John Green and co-founder of DFTBA Records with Alan Lastufka. His albums include: So Jokes, This Machine Pwns N00bs and his upcoming album Ellen Hardcastle.

John Green

JOHN GREEN: The older brother of Hank Green, award winning author and co-founder of Nerdfighteria. His works include: Looking For Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns and Will Grayson, Will Grayson. 

NERDFIGHTER: A person who his proud of being a nerd, has taken on the title, nerdfighters are known for watching the vlogbrothers on youtube and doing their best to decrease worldsuck.

NERDFIGHTERIA: Though Nerdfighteria is not a physical location, it is an island where the awesome of all the nerdfighters in the world is joined.  The two rules of Nerdfighteria, and really the world, are 1. Don’t be mean; and 2. DFTBA.

NERDFIGHTER-LIKE: Love between two nerdfighters. A song about nerdfighter like was written and sung by Lauren Fairweather and later covered by Hank and Katherine Green.

THE NERDFIGHTER ‘GANG SIGN’:

 

The Nerdfighter Salute/Gang Sign

VLOGBROTHERS: John and Hank Green’s youtube channel.

WORLDSUCK: All the sucky things in the world combined. Worldsuck has been known to include: malaria, murder and poverty. One of a nerdfighters main aims in life is to decrease worldsuck. Whether it be just being nice to everyone or dedicating their lives to charity."


Now I guess I should do some of my own writing because I have been stealing everyone else's. This girl called Liz publicized the who idea of John Green Week. Click the link on the bottom of this post to see what she said about it. I will definitely spread that whole week rereading his books. I will do my best to make book reviews for each once I finish. At the very least I want to reread An Abundance of Katherines, which was my favorite one.
-DFTBA

Liz's Post: Clicky hereth
John Green's website: http://johngreenbooks.com/
Hank's nerdfighter blog: CLICK
DFBTA: http://dftba.com/