June 2014: Reread for the movie, which was incredible. The most accurate book to movie adaptation of all time. Probably half of the script was pulled word for word from the book.
Scenes I wish had been in the movie but weren't: when Isaac describes how Gus came to the hospital after his surgery and said that Isaac would live a long life with great and terrible things he can't even imagine yet.
Yep that's all I can think of.

January 2012: I put this in a tweet while reading, that I had never fallen in love with a book so completely while I was reading it. My loving a book usually occurs upon retrospection. I had to pause about every other page to write down a wonderful quote to hang on my wall when I am normally lucky to find one quotable moment in an entire novel. I have also never cried so hard in a book (except maybe The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, but that was only at the very very end), and I have definitely never found so many things amusing while also bawling my eyes out. John Green took my heart and put it in a cup of sadness, but then he would tempt me with drops of hilarity. They were enough to make me hopeful, but would fade out into the overwhelming reality of the pain. But that's not to say the book isn't hopeful. It addresses so many reasons for life. For living. John Green answers questions about life through his characters that so many people wish they could find the words for, and he truly does it with the utmost sense of prose. As a steadfast nerdfighter, I know how much of his heart and soul went into the writing and editing of this book, and it shows on every page.

John Green: thank you for The Fault In Our Stars. Thank you for telling a heartbreaking story in an impossibly funny and touching way.