The title of the book I chose to read is "Matthew, Tell Me about Heaven.... I really enjoyed this book because it taught me some new things about unfamiliar religions and taught me valuable life lessons as well. The book starts off with Suzanne explaining how Matthew died, which was falling asleep at the wheel somewhere in Panama. ... The book also talks about angels. ... Before reading "Matthew, Tell Me About Heaven," I really had no idea what Nirvana was. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, makes reference to Esther Earl when showing the isolation of serious illness, "we have a habit of imagining the dying as fundamentally other from the well. ... Hazel has one and used it as a child before she was "diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen.... Like Anna, the main character of An Imperial Affliction, Hazel is terminally ill, and as Hazel says, "it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.... " Also, in An Imperial Affliction, the novel ends mid-sentence, making it unclear whe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate