USA Today has posted the first chapter from John Green’ latest book A Fault in Our Stars and John himself has posted a video of him reading the chapter on YouTube!

You have two ways to enjoy The Fault in Our Stars – either by listening to John Green read it on YouTube or by reading it for yourself. Both options are available below!

Read Ch. 1 of The Fault in Our Stars:

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.) But my mom believed I required treatment, so she took me to see my Regular Doctor Jim, who agreed that I was veritably swimming in a paralyzing and totally clinical depression, and that therefore my meds should be adjusted and also I should attend a weekly Support Group. [MORE]

John Green is an award winning author and 1/2 of the Vlogbrothers.

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