Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

How to start this review without sounding like a dramatic maniac?

This book is by far one of the best books I have read in my short life.  


At the same time I wish I had never read this book because it feels like nothing will be as great as it was and all the books that have come after almost feel like a waste of time.


The Fault in Our Stars is a book written in first person by Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen year old girl with cancer.  She takes this miracle drug that has kept her alive for three years. She does not socialize much except for when her parents force her to go to support group meetings for cancer patients.  There she has a strange friendship with a boy named Isaac who has eye cancer and has lost already one of his eyes. He has a girlfriend that keeps him going, her name is Monica.

One day, Isaac brings a friend over to the support group.  His name is Augustus Waters.  He immediately falls for Hazel because of her resemblance to his late girlfriend.

I have started and re-started this review like ten times and I can't seem to be able to say a lot of what this book is about in a clear way and without giving you the full story.  All I can really say is that this book is a MUST read for everyone.  I have recommended it to people my age and customers in their 50s and everyone agrees that it is an awesome book.

John Green gives a lot of his characters a maturity and intellect that isn't normally associated with teenagers but with Hazel and Augustus it fits perfectly. They say things like:

(I, in no way own this pictures, the first picture belongs to this blog: http://jremps.wordpress.com/tag/the-fault-in-our-stars/  I could not for my life find the second one again but it says on the picture milesbowers on flickr 

and the third belongs to: http://8tracks.com/reservoirsnogs/a-brief-but-infinite-forever)

Needless to say, I give this book a full 5 out of 5 stars and I beg everyone to take the time to read it.

Thank you,

ohh

Book Review - L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad

Thanks to Pinterest I have become obsessed with Ms. Lauren Conrad.  The girl has turned into my fashion icon and favorite celebrity.  She has the most exquisite and elegant taste you can imagine.  Most importantly, she likes to share with her fans. Through my long hours of Googling LC I found out that she has written books!  Yes.  She has written a total of six books.


I recently read her L.A. Candy Series which consists of three books titled L.A. Candy, Sweet Little Lies, and Sugar and Spice. 

The L.A. Candy series is about two perfectly beautiful, but opposite, best friends who just moved to L.A. and get chosen to be in a reality TV show called L.A. Candy.  L.A. Candy feels like an explanation to how reality television works and since LC rose to stardom through a reality television show, one could assume that in a way she is giving that insight to her Laguna Beach/The Hills experience.

In L.A. Candy, the two main characters Jane and Scarlett get picked out of a crowd in an LA Club by a TV producer named Trevor who is trying to make a comeback.  L.A. Candy is set to follow four girls around LA living their normal lives. Except that of course not much of what happens on the show is exactly real.

I'm not going to lie, I enjoyed this book more than I should have.  It was a quick read, I would say it could be finished in five or six hours.  The vocabulary in this book is very simple.  Some of the concerns of other reviews were that she used terms like OMG, BFF and WTF, but that didn't bother me. Who doesn't throw one of those in to their conversation once in a while?  People talked about how she might have had a ghost writer but I'm guessing that who ever said that didn't read the book and see how simple it was.

L.A. Candy was the story of Jane's rise to fame.  She is the main character of the book and of the TV show. This causes conflict between her and another girl on the show, Madison.  She also starts having problems with her best friend Scarlett.

I kind of liked that this book leaves you off with a cliff hanger. It was OK for me because I had the next book lined up on my library wish list but I'm sure it sucked for the people who had to wait for the second part to be released.

All in all I give it 3 out of 5 stars because I didn't hate it.

I would recommend reading this book if you like celebrity gossip and or reality television or if you're just a fan of LC or chick-lit.

Stay tuned for the review of book two of the L.A. Candy series Sweet Little Lies.


Thanks!
-ohh