“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
-Cassius, in Julius Caesar

This was my first cancer book.  The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, came out a year ago.  Hazel Grace is a 16-year-old cancer patient who comes to terms with her terminal illness in a unique way when she meets fellow cancer patient and amputee Augustus Waters.  This is neither a cancer book or a romance or a comedy.  But it will behave like all of those.  Green’s novel gives us tragicomedy in a way only greats like Shakespeare knew how.
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