I'm sure people will write really amazing and thorough reviews of John Green's latest, The Fault in Stars, because it's really, really wonderful and readable and gut-wrenching. And funny. Which is why it's so good, because any book that can combine all those things is so, you know, "wow." 
 Anyway, since everyone's going to be reviewing it, I thought I'd just share a few of my random thoughts: 
 - Yes, Hazel & Augustus, champagne does taste like stars. 
 - This is a really beautiful book about love and pain. 
 - This line: (tiny spoiler, sort of) (view spoiler)[ 
 I love you present tense. 
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 - Hazel's voice just killed me. I don't know how authentically "teenage girl" it is, but I don't think that really matters, because I feel like this book and characters are very ageless. Her voice and perspective were just phenomenal. 
 - There's a big blobby tear stain in my book. And I kind of think I'm too old to be crying over books, because, you know, I have to deal with real life and all that stuff, but geez... I guess I'll never stop crying over books. 
 - It also made me laugh out loud. Especially the thing about the Swedish rap. 
 - Gosh, how much do I love the ranty stuff about the Cancer Fiction Genre? I remember reading the various I Want to Live/Too Young to Die/Six Months to Live/Don't Die, My Love books (were those all written by the same person? *checks Goodreads* Oh, I think they were!) back when I was in junior high and oh, yeah, the ranty stuff about the Cancer Fiction Genre is so, so spot on. 
 - This: 
 ... I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 
 -And this: 
 I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. 
 This is my second, "Highly Recommended" of the year (Bittersweet being the other) and the two are very, very, very different, but both have stuck with me for completely different reasons. 
 Read in one sitting. I have more thoughts, but it's 1a.m. 
 (Book #8 read in 2012.)