February Book Choice

With great consideration i am pleased to announce our February book choice is "The fault in Our Stars" by John Green.

The Fault in Our Stars is the fourth solo novel by author John Green, published in January 2012. The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee.

This may be a quite difficult and heartbreaking story to read, which will make for great discussion and analysis.

I have ordered the books in, so will be issuing them in our January meeting.

-Carey

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