Friday, July 20, 2012

Author Love #5: John Green




Author Love is a meme we came up with. There are so many authors and books out there that we love so much and want the world to know about them. If you want to play along all you have to do is pick one of your favorite authors. Write what you like about them and/or their books. You can also include an author bio and synopsis of their book if you want.


My pick for this week is John Green.
Author bio from authors website-
John Green
John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages.
In 2007, Green and his brother Hank ceased textual communication and began to talk primarily through videoblogs posted to YouTube. The videos spawned a community of people called nerdfighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerdfighters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.) Although they have long since resumed textual communication, John and Hank continue to upload two videos a week to their YouTube channel, vlogbrothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 200 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. He is also an active Twitter user with more than 1.2 million followers.
Green’s book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Booklist, a wonderful book review journal where he worked as a publishing assistant and production editor while writing Looking for Alaska. Green grew up in Orlando, Florida before attending Indian Springs School and then Kenyon College.




I'm kinda obsessed with John Green. I can't believe I've actually meet him in person. He is so nice and took the time to talk to me while signing my books. His books are my unhealthy obsession. I love them so much. I plan on reading every single one of them. Then I can happily wait for him to write more. My favorite by far is The Fault in Our Stars. I could reread that book a million times and love it even more each time. If you haven't checked out his books then you should because they are amazing. You can find John Green's goodreads page below.

 Goodreads Page

Jasmine <3

2 comments:

  1. I'm off to check him out, never heard of him. :)

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  2. I LOVE John Green! He's one of my favorite authors. TFIOS is fantastic, although Looking for Alaska is probably my favorite.

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