Profound But Technically Meaningless

teagypsy:

The first 5 pages of a kids book I wrote for Henry Green entitled ‘What is a Nerdfighter?’ where I attempted to explain Nerdfighteria to a 2 yr old. 

I really loved working on this! It took me over 45 hours to paper craft all the illustrations and bind it, but I was able to put the original into John’s hands at the Tour De Nerdfighting Atlanta stop. 

Horse from talking to every single Nerdfighter in the 800 person line, he seemed very grateful, but dazed. He and Hank are some of the most honorable people I have had the pleasure to meet. They stayed for hours just to make sure every kid knew they were important. They personalized every book, they took the time to look you in the eyes.

To make this effort, John had to leave Henry at home for over a month. I felt like if I could show Henry a smidgen of the care that his dad has for all of us, and that we have for all of him, then Henry might understand why we borrowed his dad for so long.

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This is amazing <3

#2 The Fault In Out Stars
by John Green

My copy of TFIOS arrived in the mail a couple days ago (thankfully much earlier than Amazon’s predicted Feb. 3rd arrival date), but I held of reading it for a couple of days because I knew I would not be able to put it down once I started. 

I finished it in less than four hours (actually it was definitely closer to three). I almost feel like I devoured it too quickly, like when you eat a piece of cake and then realize you didn’t even taste it. A couple of times I wanted to slow down and reread a page, but the urge to finish it propelled me forward. I’m definitely going to reread it soon, and look forward to getting John’s audiobook CDs in the mail and settle down with those. 

It’s very hard to write my exact feelings on the book without severe spoilers, but I shall try. I loved it, I really did. With any author that you’ve previously enjoyed there is always, mixed with in the sheer excitement of new work, that little bit of anxiety that it won’t be as good, that you’ll be forced to love it because you love the person and not the work. But this was definitely not the case. I loved Hazel. I loved Augustus (I’m actually even warming to the name Augustus; watch out future sons!), I loved the banter, the relationships between the characters. I loved that I cried for approximately the entire second half of the book. 

Slight spoiler alert for the following paragraph, but mostly just (heavy) implications of spoilers.  

I’d love to know what happened to Monica. Like as soon as Isaac came back into the story, I just wanted to get Monica to find out did she really freak out, did she feel bad, does she already have some super-jock boyfriend. Strangely, I want to know about Monica even more than I want to know what happens to Hazel. I don’t even particularly like Monica, not in a way where like if I could choose which fictional characters I could hang out with she’d make the cut. Maybe I just need to know it’s not only the people that get hurt who have to survive and move forward, but also the people that do the hurting?

 Also, check out my awesome J-Scribble! John Green how did you know my favorite color was purple?!