Bajo la misma estrella (The Fault in Our Stars) (Spanish Edition)
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 9/29/2018
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I got this softcover from this Little Free Library in Nashua NH, one of eight new ones added to the seven already in use. It's the Spanish-language edition of Fault in Our Stars, which I read some time back. (The book inspired a 2014 film.)
I enjoyed the book even though it had to walk a fine line between representing the acute trials and suffering of cancer patients and their families and depicting a believable friendship/romance. While there were a few aspects of the plot that struck me as too good to be true - mainly, the main couple's near-mind-reading relationship, which, while not impossible, is far from a typical example of the way real relationships work - I came to like the characters very much, and wanted the best for them.
The story is centered around the narrator's favorite book, an offbeat work by a reclusive author (who, when we finally meet him, turns out to be a badly-flawed individual). This triggers a number of plot-points, including a trip to Amsterdam courtesy of a Make-A-Wish-type organization - great, right? Though our fragile protagonists somehow have to make their own moments happen in between physical weakness and pain...
There's a touching friendship between Hazel's love-interest Augustus and his newly-blind pal Isaac, with Hazel becoming a solid friend as well. (The scene where she's playing a voice-activated, no-visuals computer game with Isaac is one of the more charming in the story.) And the parents of the kids have their own times to shine, though they also show some all-too-believable stress from the emotional and financial toll of caring for chronically- or terminally-ill kids.
I was pleased to see a familiar title in the author's list of references: The Emperor of All Maladies, about the history of cancer treatment.
[There's a TV Tropes page on the novel and its film adaptation.]
I enjoyed the book even though it had to walk a fine line between representing the acute trials and suffering of cancer patients and their families and depicting a believable friendship/romance. While there were a few aspects of the plot that struck me as too good to be true - mainly, the main couple's near-mind-reading relationship, which, while not impossible, is far from a typical example of the way real relationships work - I came to like the characters very much, and wanted the best for them.
The story is centered around the narrator's favorite book, an offbeat work by a reclusive author (who, when we finally meet him, turns out to be a badly-flawed individual). This triggers a number of plot-points, including a trip to Amsterdam courtesy of a Make-A-Wish-type organization - great, right? Though our fragile protagonists somehow have to make their own moments happen in between physical weakness and pain...
There's a touching friendship between Hazel's love-interest Augustus and his newly-blind pal Isaac, with Hazel becoming a solid friend as well. (The scene where she's playing a voice-activated, no-visuals computer game with Isaac is one of the more charming in the story.) And the parents of the kids have their own times to shine, though they also show some all-too-believable stress from the emotional and financial toll of caring for chronically- or terminally-ill kids.
I was pleased to see a familiar title in the author's list of references: The Emperor of All Maladies, about the history of cancer treatment.
[There's a TV Tropes page on the novel and its film adaptation.]
Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at LFL - Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, September 30, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (9/30/2018 UTC) at LFL - Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book in the Little Free Library (one of eight new LFLs in town, bringing the total of Nashua LFLs to 15) inside the mall; hope someone enjoys it!
[See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 2018 Movie release challenge. ***
[See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 2018 Movie release challenge. ***