Kitty
I came late to this much praised book: a love story of teenagers dying from cancer. It strikes me as pretty true. Romanticized and over-adjectivized,and the kids seem too nice to their parents, yet the feelings feel truthful.
Anyway, I loved it. It is, I am told, very hard to write for teenagers. Green can do it. I know I would have loved it back when I was 16.
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Reread in 2025, at the same time as my son, who has terminal cancer. For him, it is almost too confronting. He thinks the teenagers in the book are miniturized grownups. As a mom in this position, thus time, I like it. Everything is compressed an upwittied, to make it palatable. Still, that is how parents behave, these are the questions young cancer patients have.
I came late to this much praised book: a love story of teenagers dying from cancer. It strikes me as pretty true. Romanticized and over-adjectivized,and the kids seem too nice to their parents, yet the feelings feel truthful.
Anyway, I loved it. It is, I am told, very hard to write for teenagers. Green can do it. I know I would have loved it back when I was 16.
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Reread in 2025, at the same time as my son, who has terminal cancer. For him, it is almost too confronting. He thinks the teenagers in the book are miniturized grownups. As a mom in this position, thus time, I like it. Everything is compressed an upwittied, to make it palatable. Still, that is how parents behave, these are the questions young cancer patients have.