I just POUNDED my way through that book, and cried my eyes out so now I need to get my yes to stop burning before I can fall asleep.
It's a story of a girl, Hazel with terminal cancer, and her story about finding love with a boy named Augustus (Gus), which by the way I think is adorable. On the one hand, teenage love story- you know. On the other hand, her thoughts of life and death are a very haunting and real thing. I've always had the fear of someone being taken away from me far too young-- Brandon, right now, or our kids some day. And let's be honest- I HATE CANCER. I hate it I hate it. So that stuck out to me. Brandon once told me that every married couple has at least one serious health challenge... His parents' was his mom's Guillan-Barre, and my parents have had some melanoma scares. I've been more and more aware of that as I've been married, and kind of morbidly wondered when our turn will strike and what will happen. I know it's a completely unrealistic thing to worry about but I just love my life and don't want it to be drastically altered for the worse.
But man, I want to reread it and read more about what Hazel was thinking. It only took me 4 hours to read, but I loved it. Now I have a delirious husband who is mumbling something about "that's why you don't sleep", so I'll take advantage of my time.
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