this is ridiculous, but I have special tags for my friends Oajé and Megan (who, btw you should follow if you like Doctor Who, Sherlock, Supernatural, Being Human, and other good things. Otherwise you're silly.) and most of the time I queue things 'cause there's days I can't get on because of placement, and I always get a wee twinge of sadness when I queue something utterly BRILLIANT for them, and see by the time it's posted they've already seen it elsewhere. awk.
I promised megan that I'd do a feels post now I'm done the book. (Incidentally, is everyone in the universe following her and Oajé yet? Shameless promotion of friends.) Putting it behind a read more in case you haven't read it, there'll probs be spoilers and stuff.
In its most basic form, this book is about two teenage cancer sufferers (augustus and hazel) finding out a lot about life before death. It's a whole lot more complicated than that, but so that you have a general gist.
I've never read any John Green before, but I definitely am gunna read more, the book was so EMOTIONAL without you realising, really, that you were feeling all these different things. There was an inevitability all the way through of their deaths and I tried to convince myself that it wouldn't happen - despite the fact that if i didn't, I would've been SO upset with the author for being unrealistic - even though I knew it would happen.
The end just hit me so hard, I knew what was coming subconsciously, I think, but when it did end, I was in shock a little? I'd grown so attached to Augustus and hazel and the realisation that they both weren't alive anymore shocked me. I just, idk. I can't explain it really, throughout they were just so buckin' BRAVE and faced this illness with such a typical teenage attitude. There were points when I forgot they were ill, then Hazel would say something about adjusting her oxygen, or Augustus about his leg, and it'd be then I remember.
It's rare that I've cried so MUCH at a book before, but this was just so powerful in its simplicity. No-one in the book was being like OH SYMPATHY I HAVE CANCER or anything, it was done so simply and so beautifully.
And now I want to hunt down Green like Hazel and Augustus did with van Houten and demand answers about Isaac and Kaitlyn, and Van Houten's assistant whose name escapes me.
All in all, that was a scarily powerful read. Hours and hours after finishing, I can't stop thinking about it, and I still feel sad, as if I'm mourning them, which I am, in a way.
This was more articulate than I thought it'd be. xD
I walked to his bus to introduce myself, muttering the whole way, ‘Hi, I’m Jen. Hi, I’m Jennifer. Should I go Jen or Jennifer? Should I say I’m Katniss? No, he probably already knows that.’ So I walk onto his bus and first words out of my mouth are ‘Hey Woo – is that a sex swing!?’ It was in fact a yoga swing hanging from the ceiling.
Jennifer Lawrence, when she first met Woody Harrelson who plays Haymitch.