Though enjoyable, I found the basic premise a little hard to believe that two teenagers just take up residence with perfect strangers. I liked Colin, but the universe never felt fully real nor was I ever fully invested in the outcome. Sweet ending.

"But he always had books...[P]ut them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."

I was expecting to be moved by this book whose reputation precedes it, but I was gutted and wrung out in ways wonderfully unexpected. I'm enthralled by Green's penetrating universe.

"You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!" -Augustus Waters ?

"I know that love is just a shout in the void, and that the oblivion is inevitable...and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

Picked this off my best friend's shelf for a quick fun vacation read and was blown away. I outwardly gasped and laughed at multiple points of this fast-paced novel. Green captures exactly what it's like to be a teenager in suburban Florida.

@aylamarie has implored me to read The Giver since we were in 7th grade. Today, I'm finally taking her good advice and rectifying my bookish transgression.

1L complete. Let summer reading commence...with a book about the death penalty.