Five Feet Apart

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Maybe it lost its emotional touch when it is adapted to the novel like something got lost in translation. It is easy to read, laid out in alternating chapters – changing between Stella’s point of view and Will’s. One thing I continue to struggle with understanding is why reality is not enough for these types of books?

I don't want to give this a rating after not even having read 100 pages but I'm almost 100% sure this would've been a 1 star read. No chances were taken that you would pass on a flu or cold or something worse to a hospitalized CF patient. The need to go 'over the top' is such a Hollywood trait and I hate how it's translated to influence today's fiction. Though I felt the plot itself wasn’t too original, the characters are charming, and the awareness the book spreads about cystic fibrosis is incredible.When it comes to Stella however, he stops rebelling, and begins to see that he can live his life and have more of it by keeping up with his treatments. Y qué decir de Stella cuando por fin se da cuenta de que la vida es algo más que seguir un cronograma de medicinas y terapias y que, a pesar de todo, puede permitirse sentir, temer, llorar, amar. I guess that’s due to the fact that there is a lot of time passing in the movie and scenes just fade out while the book makes it a habit to continue with the story without the benefit of having those fade out moments. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them?

Yes, there were some similarities to The Fault in Our Stars but I didn't necessarily feel as if Will, Stella, and Poe were masters of sarcasm and wry observations as the characters were in the former. Will and Stella form a relationship but can't come close in contact with each other, they must always remain five feet apart.It made me think, feel, and brought so much awareness to what it's like to live with a chronic disease.

Because he used them to cough up his mucus, seal the ickiness and then wipe off his mouth, hands, etc.

pero luego volvía esa eterna lucha entre el arriesgarse y tocarse o, sencillamente, seguir viviendo tiempo prestado. every time it talked about the characters struggling for breath, i inhaled so deeply, marvelling at how well my lungs work. I didn’t know it was possible to want something so bad you could feel it in your arms and your legs and in every breath you take. Esas últimas páginas, esa montaña rusa de sensaciones y acontecimientos me dejó con muchísimas lágrimas en los ojos. Each and every person with CF experiences this disease in our own way, from its severity to our symptoms, to how we feel about the disease and its impact on our lives.