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Dick Francis always delivers. Clever books.
Dick Francis always delivers. Clever books.
Nice, easy writing style, great set of characters, good blend of action and emotion. Sympathetic. Not outstandingly original, but in its kind a great book.
Nice, easy writing style, great set of characters, good blend of action and emotion. Sympathetic. Not outstandingly original, but in its kind a great book.
Nice, easy writing style, nice set of characters, OK blend of action and emotion. Sympathetic. Not outstandingly original. Not too thrilling, do not keep you up at night. Which for me is a plus.
Nice, easy writing style, nice set of characters, OK blend of action and emotion. Sympathetic. Not outstandingly original. Not too thrilling, do not keep you up at night. Which for me is a plus.
Added to listAll time favoriteswith 4 books.
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.
Added to listYoung Adultwith 10 books.
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.
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.
Updated a reading goal:
Read 3 books by December 30, 2025
Progress so far: 125 / 3 4166%
Very well written, but for the biggest part of it seems to be going nowhere. The main character is bland. Actually not one character is interesting. Apparently the last 30% of this book is very enjoyable, but at 2/3 I am ready to give up.
Very well written, but for the biggest part of it seems to be going nowhere. The main character is bland. Actually not one character is interesting. Apparently the last 30% of this book is very enjoyable, but at 2/3 I am ready to give up.
I am growing very fond of this series. Ryan and his little son are charming and completely unconventional characters. His collegue Ray, who will probably turn into a nicer person soon, is an interesting sidekick. Even though I still lived the first book in this series most, I can’t wait to read more.
I am growing very fond of this series. Ryan and his little son are charming and completely unconventional characters. His collegue Ray, who will probably turn into a nicer person soon, is an interesting sidekick. Even though I still lived the first book in this series most, I can’t wait to read more.
Interesting and fast paced, but not as charming as the first book in this series. Hopefully the third book will have the charm of #1.
Interesting and fast paced, but not as charming as the first book in this series. Hopefully the third book will have the charm of #1.