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| Title | : | This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl |
| Author | : | Esther Earl |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 431 pages |
| Published | : | January 28th 2014 by Dutton Books for Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir. Young Adult. Teen. Contemporary |
Esther Earl
Hardcover | Pages: 431 pages Rating: 4.17 | 15138 Users | 2055 Reviews
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A collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Photographs and essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.
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| ISBN: | 0525426361 (ISBN13: 9780525426363) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award for Memoir & Autobiography (2014) |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 15138 Users | 2055 ReviewsAssess Regarding Books This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
4.5 stars.Does having terminal illness somehow makes people stronger? I wonder a lot about this throughout the book. Having both my parents suffered cancer (specifically my mother who had the same trouble breathing without oxygen nasal cannula like Esther) and having so many friends in net world, I can relate to this book so much. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I wanted to read this book, to remember my parents, to remember their suffering, so that I still remember to honor and respectI know its cliché to say this, but I truly have never been more thrilled to receive a book in the mail. Esther is up there with J. K. Rowling and Evanna Lynch on my list of supreme role models. Ive never spoken to Esther, but the way her friends, family, and even those like me speak about her is inspiring. She passed away from thyroid cancer when she was my age, sixteen. In those sixteen years, she left a legacy of a loving, caring, and empathetic person. In the words of her friend Teryn, Esther
I have been a Nerdfighter since almost the beginning (mid-2007), and so it makes sense that I would read this book that John Green has mentioned multiple times and for which he wrote the introduction. But I would not have finished it if it weren't a book club read, and even then I almost abandoned it.This is not so much a "book" as it is a giant collection of everything related to Esther Earl -- her diary entries, her family's CaringBridge updates, transcripts of some of her videos, reflections
This book has been on my to-read list for a very long time. Esther Grace Earl, the dedicated namesake of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, tragically passed away when I was in junior high school. This Star Won't Go Out is quite a sad book, all things considered, but an important one - I think it's really easy to see grieving families and stories of sick kids in hospitals and to think of them as statistics, or just figures to be blindly pitied, but everyone whose life is affected by an
I rarely take the time to review books, mostly because I don't tend to have super interesting things to say, but this is different. I had the pleasure of meeting Esther via Skype at Infinitus 2010 and it is something that I will never forget. Cancer is a tough subject for me, as my dad passed away from cancer in April 2010. Meeting Esther just a couple of months later was both hard and touching but I was immensely impressed with how well she dealt with her illness. A year after Esther passed
I...wow. Okay, this is going to be difficult.I mean I'm sure no one is going to see this anyway, because who honestly reads Review #3469, but I'm going to do this anyway.The thing is, for a very brief time, I was the cancer girl. I was the one with a scarf instead of hair, I was the one with a skinny, chemo-ravaged body, I was the one who was bedridden. And as I start to tell my own story on paper, I gradually start to reach out for other people. People who understand what it feels like to be
I have sat here forever trying to figure out what to say. This book made me cry in places and smile in others. But mostly it's just sad. I have had this book and hundreds of books on my shelves forever. I still do. I have been trying to read as many as possible before my own fight against cancer begins in a week. I started getting mad and just grabbing a lot of books for mom to sell Monday before we go in the afternoon to get a mold of my pelvis. And... I came across this book on my shelf. I
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