The Fault in Our Stars

A lot of crying during the final third of this book, and I was surprised not to feel manipulated into it, although there were a few moments (that didn‰ЫЄt make me cry) that did feel forced. There are a lot of complexities around writing and reading and appreciating this kind of book (i.e., cancer death book) so I‰ЫЄm not going to get into things. The characters were charming, the dialogue was clever, and the story brought out some of my latent Health Studies learning. There was some really interesting stuff going on about stigma associated with illness, the visibility vs invisibility of disease, the problems with seeing those who are ill as fragile, and creative ways of dealing with illness and its stigma.