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The First and Last Novels That Made Me Cry

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Naomi K
Mar 16, 2012
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So, I was recently recommended John Green's The Fault In Our Stars, which is a YA novel about a sixteen year old girl with terminal cancer (its main schtick is that the girl herself is somewhat aware of cancer-novel tropes, which the novel sometimes subverts and sometimes gleefully obeys). Anyway, I was basically promised that the novel would make me cr…

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