book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
book info:
ages: 14 and up
grades: 8+9 and up
years: 10 and up
on sale: now!
copy from: school library
publisher: Dutton
pages: 313
title: The Fault in Our Stars
author: John Green
Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.
Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.
Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.
I can't believe I haven't read it until now. I've heard so many raving reviews, and I just now got to it. I've literally (wrong use of literately AHH see how the book is affecting me?) just finished and wow. Simply: wow. The only other John Green book I enjoyed was Paper Towns, but this one...is simply phenomenal. I don't like reading cancer stories. I never did. All the writers were so gloomy, and heroic and sad: something that the characters in this one acknowledged (all other cancer stories) and blatantly defied.
I love how Mr Green's characters are so honest and funny and deep all at once. As a teenager, I wholeheartedly related to all of this. V for Vendetta, the behaviour of teenage boys, and the slang and the tone.
I've been exposed to a lot of philosophy in the past few days, with studying Life of Pi in my literature class and researching philosophies to help me with my essay as well as reading this book. I love this book, I'll flat out say. It's ruddy brilliant. I'm trying to form actual points that I liked:
ages: 14 and up
grades: 8+9 and up
years: 10 and up
on sale: now!
copy from: school library
publisher: Dutton
pages: 313
title: The Fault in Our Stars
author: John Green
Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now.Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault.
Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.
I can't believe I haven't read it until now. I've heard so many raving reviews, and I just now got to it. I've literally (wrong use of literately AHH see how the book is affecting me?) just finished and wow. Simply: wow. The only other John Green book I enjoyed was Paper Towns, but this one...is simply phenomenal. I don't like reading cancer stories. I never did. All the writers were so gloomy, and heroic and sad: something that the characters in this one acknowledged (all other cancer stories) and blatantly defied.
I love how Mr Green's characters are so honest and funny and deep all at once. As a teenager, I wholeheartedly related to all of this. V for Vendetta, the behaviour of teenage boys, and the slang and the tone.
I've been exposed to a lot of philosophy in the past few days, with studying Life of Pi in my literature class and researching philosophies to help me with my essay as well as reading this book. I love this book, I'll flat out say. It's ruddy brilliant. I'm trying to form actual points that I liked:
- The humour.
- The flirty banter between Hazel and Augustus
- They're deep relationship expressed through their flirty, intellectual banter
- The story. The entire story. The whole "using your wish" part, and the ______(city)______ part (trying not to write spoilers, but it's so hard not to fangirl)
- The beautiful writing. It's not chatty, and it's not too empty: it's a perfect combination that crunches down to: just right.
- The way philosophy is sort of weaved into it, and not written out in formal essays
- The characters
On that last point. Characters make the story. This story has unforgettable characters with incredibly original, absolutely real voices I've read in ages. Hazel is real. Augustus is real. Because the book makes it so. To write good characters, one should know what makes humans tick. Philosophy helps a great load, I think, and is what differentiates these characters from others I've read. I'm not saying other books are crap: I'm saying this one is amazing.
In fear that I'll turn into a hot blubbering mess, I'll stop right there and simply say this: read The Fault in Our Stars. You will love it for certain. I'm usually very reluctant to give out five trees to books, and I haven't since I don't know when, but tonight I will give John Green's ridiculously brilliant book five trees.
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