The fault in our stars - movie update!

Contain your excitement people! The full cast for the film adaptation of John Green's 'The fault in our stars' has finally been announced. Playing Hazel and Augustus are Shailene Woodley, a fairly seasoned actress and Ansel Elgort, who is a relative newcomer. In exciting news for us oldies, legendary actor Willem Dafoe has been cast as alcoholic author Peter Van Houten.

You can see more information about the movie and cast at the IMDB website and watch footage on set with the cast and John Green on his blog, here and here. Hooray!

The film is currently being shot in Pittsburgh and is due for release sometime in 2014. Bring it on!

The fault in our stars by John Green

What a lovely, sad and inspiring read this is. There has been so much buzz about this book and after reading it, I must say it is well deserved. Time Magazine called it "damn near genius", and the book's #1 position on multiple best seller lists supports this glowing review.

16 year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster is living with cancer. It will never leave her, she will never be cured, and most likely it will eventually kill her. Whilst at a Cancer Kids support group, she meets Augustus Waters, cancer survivor, amputee, and really hot teenager. Both know what it is to look death in the face, and it is this unique view of life that both hinders and nurtures their budding friendship, and later, their love for each other. The story follows their relationship not only with each other, but with their friends, with the families who love them and don't want them to die, and with the ever present cancer that threatens to separate them. 

Green writes with an eloquence and poetry that the rest of us can only dream of. The subject matter of this story will stay with you, and the beauty of his language will sink equally as deep. I will remember this book not only for its painful plot, but for the joy of reading every sentence. You will laugh a lot, you will definitely cry, sometimes you might feel sick at the injustice of life (I did), but you will love these characters and you will not regret meeting them.

Caitlin @ Balwyn.

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Good Reads Choice Awards for 2012 Announced!

Good Reads, the book review website with more than 12 million members (and more than 420 million listed titles and reviews), has announced the winners of their 2012 Choice awards. After more than a million votes, the winners in all 20 categories have been announced. In the YA space there were two categories; YA fiction and YA fantasy & science fiction, and a Best Middle Grade and Children's category too.

...and the winners are.....

YA Fiction: The fault in our stars by John Green (with a whopping 37,438 votes)!
For a list of all the finalists in this category, click here.

YA Fantasy & Science Fiction: Insurgent by Veronica Roth (23,827 votes - not too shabby)!
For the YA fantasy and sci-fi finalists, click here.

Middle Grade and Children's Fiction: The mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (16,681 votes)!
You know the drill - click here for the other finalists.


So...what are you waiting for? Here's what to do in 4 easy steps:
1. Peruse Good Reads best books for 2012.
2. Come into library or access our ebooks collection online.

3. Borrow.
4. READ!
(5. Enter our 'Love, Summer xx' Reading Competition - click the heading at the top of this blog to find out more!)


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• Review a book yourself.