We are all familiar with the classic situation where one of our favorite books is turned into a movie, and then the movie turns out to be extremely different from the book. In an inherently melancholy young adult novel such as The Fault in our Stars it…

How does the book trailer drum up interest in TFIOS? What can you glean about the book from the trailer? Find another book trailer online to widen your frame of reference. What kinds of books get to have book trailers? The book trailer begins creating interest…

After viewing both the book trailer and the movie trailer for The Fault in Our Stars, I noticed that they were similar and different in the marketing strategies that were used. Upon viewing both trailers for the first time, I noticed an immediate difference between them.…

(second go, hope this works now) To be honest, I would love to read TFIOS with Augustus narrating it. It would be completely and utterly different. I think that if Augustus wrote it, TFIOS would be romanticized a lot more. To me, TFIOS is written…

Talbot’s profile aims at dispelling notions about Green’s books, and about the kind of person that would write a YA novel. One would imagine a YA author to be either romantic and feisty, with a passionate belief in the power of youth, or simply interested…

  Being an 18 year old girl who has met people who have had cancer, met people in love, or met people going through illnesses, I have a completely different perspective than my 13 year old self would have while reading this book. Although many…

The Fault in Our Stars is narrated by Hazel for many reasons. As we discussed in class, readers get to know Hazel from the first sentences of the book. We noticed her dry sense of humour, her hostility and sarcasm towards her mother, and her…

Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) became famous after releasing “For Emma, Forever Ago” in 2007, an acoustic album recorded in the woods of Wisconsin while battling mononucleosis. Many of his songs are about getting over his ex-girlfriend, and as a result come across as sad but…

Everyone has varying reactions to certain topics depending on age, taste, values, and personality. We often question what is the ideal age to start listening to certain genres of music, television shows to watch, book to read, websites to browse. It is up to us…

…is the modernist classic “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” (by t. s. eliot). one of its most famous lines, which you will often encounter quoted out of context: Do I dare to eat a peach?