I wouold even allow you a peek at my grocery lists. Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine This is a book that breaks your heart not by wearing it down, but by making it bigger until it bursts. Should you find yourself in Amsterdam, however, please do pay a visit at your leisure. The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness. (The author of that novel was so thin, so frail, so comparatively optimistic!) Vliegenthart has delighted me: What a wondrous thing to know that I made something useful to you-even if that book seems so distant from me that I feel it was written by a different man altogether. That noted, I must confess that the unexpected receipt of your correspondence via Ms. Alas, dear Hazel, I could never answer such questions except in person, and you are there while I am here. Not that I don't trust you, of course, but I don't trust you. There is the telephone, but then you might record the conversation. Here is what Goodreads (coincidentally a 2012 Choice Winner) had to say about this inspiring and captivating book: 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. I cannot answer your questions, at least not in writing, because to write out such answers would constitute a sequel to An Imperial Affliction, which you might publish or otherwise share on the network that has replaced the brains of your generation. I fear your faith has been misplaced-but then, faith usually is. John Green author who wrote the book, The fault in our stars amazed me by his kind and such loving unique work (book).
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