Teen Geek Out John Green Style

     As I have said before I love the teen books.  It's not always about some serious piece of fiction that may change the literary world.  Sometimes it's just simply about reading a book, falling in love with the characters and just enjoying it.  I have long been a follower of John Green, a YA author, a history video cast maker, a renaissance man if you will.  And for a couple of hours I became a 13 year old girl when I read "The Fault in Our Stars".  I read it about 5 or six months ago with a box of tissues.  The word spread about this charming book and a  movie was to be made.  More importantly it was to be made in Pittsburgh.  I was then approached during my bookstore dork daily life about filming in the store I manage.  I went through the roof and I could feel my teen girl excitement growing.  Filming a movie in my store was cool on it's own merit, but the fact that John Green himself had been showing up to filming around this city made me want to explode.  So I went to work at 3 in the morning to let the crew set lights etc.  It was like Christmas morning for me, will he come? will he show? will he sign my book?  John Green did not disappoint, early that morning he walked into the store toward all the employees and my heart skipped a beat.  I actually teen geeked out.  That's right a 37 year old woman jumped in place and clapped her hands with excitement (yep that's me).  Sure there were movies stars walking around my store but for me John Green was the movie star.  And he was the nerdy, lovely guy I had hoped he would be.  He took pictures with everyone (including me), signed all the books of his we had on our shelves (and there was a lot), and hung around and chatted with us.  It was a day I won't soon forget.  I met a favorite author of mine, got some signed books, talked with him and oh yeah I forgot Laura Dern and her kids came by to watch! So I may be in my late 30's but for one very long morning I became a teenage girl again, if only for a few minutes.  So if you haven't been swept up in the local filming and buzz that's been floating around about this book, pick it up.  It's a charming story about two kids with cancer who fall in love their own way.  You will fall in love with John Green just as I have :)