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THE FAULT IN OUR STARS:Book review

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I picked up this book because it was super hyped and (come on it is a love story of two teenagers how special could it be!!) These were my initial thoughts on it until I started reading... Thank you John Green you are truly an amazing writer and you can bring any fictional character to life The narrator of this book is Hazel Grace a 16-year-old typical teenager who is always anxious, always complaining about the system of the world and an unextraordinary person (as she claims!! but both I and Gus refuse to agree) She was diagnosed with cancer when she was 13 and her entire teen life or just her life in all, runs on a drug named Phalanxifor, she has to carry an oxygen cylinder always which mainly contributes to being one of the biggest reasons why hates going out and being looked at differently.  One such event in her life is going to the support group where she had to sit among children and teenagers who have/had cancer and listen to how similar but differently shitty their lives w...

The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck - Book review

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Let me start by explaining what counterintuitive exactly means, it is an idea that is contradictory to something that we believe logically or reasonably. Mark Mason is a blogger and a good one I must agree...I didn't know about him until I read this book...but dude his blogs are awesome you must surely check it out! The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is a self-help guide, not the traditional one for sure... it is written in a very unconventional manner.. it has a very casual tone to it..more like you are talking to a person next door named Mark who is supposedly a self-help blogger...This is also one of the reasons this book comes across some negative reviews...The other one being, that everyone is driven by different paths as far as a life approach is concerned  I am that kind of a person who feels motivated when someone puts a mirror in front of me and tells me what is wrong with things I might have done...or Constructive Criticism to put it in better words, And this book surely...