Hello everyone!

Four our second week, you voted for for one of the most praised piece of work in recent YA works, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, in a poll that we had set up. It won by a landslide, receiving 40% of your votes.

Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs… for now. 

Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault. 

Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at cancer kid support group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind.

(source: Goodreads.com summary)

If you don’t own a copy of The Great Gatsby, here are a few useful links:

• order it on BookDepository.co.uk [paperback] | Amazon.com [Kindle] | Audible.com [audiobook] |DFTBA.com [John Green narrated audiobook] 

The book club discussions will take place on the Goodreads group. If you have trouble figuring out how Goodreads works, or want to be a part of it and don’t know how, don’t hesitate to message us.

If you do not want to be part of the book discussions on our Goodreads group, we are offering you an alternative possibility: you can either be part of Readiton in all its actions and debates on the several platforms, or you can  just read the books alongside us. It’s a good way to challenge yourself to read more, if you don’t have time/don’t usually read a lot!

Have a lovely week, everyone!

For our next book we are looking for fantasy book suggestions to read in the fortnight beginning on the 3rd of June. Do you have any suggestions?