Sunday, 26 August 2012

REVIEW: The Fault In Our Stars


Star crossed lovers? Sound familiar? Well, I guess with a title like this AND it being John Green, I should have known what I was letting myself in for and the emotional trauma I was probably going to put myself through!

The novel is based around our dying heroine, Hazel, a girl living her last few months after a lifetime of cancer, medicine and hospitals.

One (of the many) amazing ways that John Green writes about people with illnesses, he doesn’t leave much out. Describing the sickness and aches Hazel is going though with intensive treatments, genuinely made me feel tired and achey too. Sometimes it can be quite exhausting, but Hazels witty commentary keeps it from getting too stuck.

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Rules and Regulations:


We welcome comments and reviews from anyone, but please note this is a teen book club aimed at young people and as such we ask that you adhere to the guidelines below:

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Friday, 10 August 2012

About Us...

Welcome to the Waterstones Leeds Teen Book Club Blog!

This blog is basically our virtual book club where we can all post reviews about our favourite books and discuss (at least!) one book a month, share our favourites and recommend other super good books to others.

So…our first book, if there’s no objections (and there shouldn’t be because it is AMAZING) is…

What we want to do is aim to have read this book by the 25th August (though please post your comments before then if you’ve read it sooner!) and post here, in the comments section what you think of it.

Hattie, Sammy and Gale x

DFTBA.

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