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The weaving of personal narrative and stories about everyday things you take for granted is riveting, whether listening to the book or reading it

As someone who has “known” John online through vlogbrothers for years hearing/reading his level of vulnerability in these stories makes it hard to put down.

Fun first short story. I so hear this in my head in the voices of alex and David - my all time favorite doctor and … companion? Doctor? This is what I love about her character. You never quite ever figure it out

John Green and I competed in the same level of academic decathlon the same year. I was brought in by a far more intelligent group of friends

As a barely passing student I found out for the first time in my life I was actually smart.

My ribbons sit on my wall from the competition as a reminder of that anytime my brain wants to tell me otherwise.

Absolutely hysterical/super interesting to me to think both John Green and I were c level “degenerates” pulled into Academic decathlon by our more intelligent friends at the exact same period in time, I in Northern California him in Alabama. I have my ribbons framed up in my office from our competition. It was the first time I felt smart. Nice to see this event in this book.

The little nuggets about the cave paintings are my favorite so far.

Its been on my TBR list forever, and Im finally digging in. I absolutely John Green and his writing, and I enjoyed the little bits of the podcast I had heard, and am loving the first couple chapters!

The layout of the book where they put the commentary from the other actors in the movie is kind of just thrown into middle of paragraphs which is a little hard to read

I switched over to listening and reading which was a great treat Because the actors themselves are actually in the audiobook reading their commentary which makes it even more special. I’ll probably stick with this till the end of the book.

It’s absolutely delightful in interspersing his story with other actors in the film to get a real good sense of the entire making of the movie! I’m so excited to keep reading this movie was a seminal movie in my childhood. I wore out the VHS for sure.

Fun listen/read so far! I needed something a little less deep than what I’d been listening too and this is one of my comfort universe for. Sure

Randomly picked this up was an ignored BOTM selection. 50 Pages in and ... wow. As someone who has parental violence & dysfunction in my own history, it's reeling me in.

Lex's trauma response is one I can wholly relate to - drink, sex avoid. Cant wait to see where this goes once she gets her siblings together to handle the estate. Tough descriptions of violence not for everyone but I get it in ways I wish I didn't

Super interesting perspectives to keep in mind. Loving his inclusive and not restrictive viewpoints on how to engage with the world

Really enjoying this so far. It’s giving me some great context of all the conflicting views of god and work that were making my head spin and gives them a cohesiveness that is really helping me understand.