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    This Star Won't Go Out

    Written by Esther Earl, Lori Earl and Wayne Earl

    Narrated by Lori Earl, Wayne Earl, Cristina Panfilio and

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    About this audiobook

    A collection of the journals, fiction, and letters of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther's story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2014
    ISBN9781480585485
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    This Star Won't Go Out
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    Esther Earl

    Wayne and Lori Earl are the parents of the late Esther Earl and founders of the nonprofit organization This Star Won’t Go Out (tswgo.org), whose mission it is to financially assist families struggling through the journey of a child living with cancer. To date, TSWGO has given away more than $130,000 to families in need.

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    • 4/5
      This collection of journal entries, blog posts, pictures, essays by family and friends, and more explores the life of Esther Earl, an aspiring writer who passed away at age 16 from cancer. The journals give insight into a teen's feelings toward dealing with cancer, though she manages to keep her sense of humor and a good attitude. The amount of love her friends and family had for her is evident throughout, and her story is truly an inspiring one. Fans of John Green (who knew and admired Esther) and his book The Fault in Our Stars will enjoy this real-life story about a teen facing cancer.
    • 5/5
      Most of the other reviewers have said everything I can say. This is a collection of letters, journal entries, stories, and essays by and about a girl named Esther Grace Earl. She was a big fan of author John Green, his You Tube channel (Vlogbrothers) with his brother and the community (Nerdfighters) that surrounded it. John Green got to know her before she passed away from thyroid cancer; though his book The Fault in Our Stars is not about her, she was certainly an influence. Esther was young when she passed away, and though this book will hit readers hard emotionally, it is very tastefully and beautifully done. I read it all in one day and cried frequently.Fans of The Fault in Our Stars and Nerdfighters in general will definitely want to read this.
    • 5/5
      I knew Esther. Not as well as anyone in Catitude knew her, but we chatted in those BlogTV live shows back in the day. She was such an amazing person, and I was devastated when she passed. I love that this book exists, as it's a way for Esther's words and writing to live on and find new people to inspire.Along with writings from her journals and blog posts, and even some transcripts from her videos, there are also stories from the Catitude members who knew her best, her friends and family, other great people that got to know her like the DeGeorge brothers and Andrew Slack, and even her doctor. And yes, John Green writes the introduction and shares his memories of Esther, but that's really only a potential draw for those who only know about Esther through her inspiration on The Fault in Our Stars. The rest of us, the Nerdfighters and the potential Nerdfighters out there, are drawn to Esther. John may have introduced many of us to her, but she had a light that was all her own.I am so happy that the Earls put this book together. That we get to read Esther's unfortunately unfinished fiction along with her diary entries is such a treat. She was an amazing writer and would have gone far, I think.This Star Will Never Go Out!
    • 5/5
      This book is a collection of Esther Earl's journal entries, her parents' blog entries, and basically anything that has to do with Esther. Esther has a way of writing that is very moving. She writes about her life, but she doesn't blur the edges. Everything she says is how it happened; it's real. She herself is real. She got drunk. She wants to have some sort of relationship with a guy. She kept secrets from her parents. And all those things are included. They aren't omitted because it would make Esther seem like a "bad" daughter. Instead, they are there and present and show how relate-able she is. Esther changed so many lives and the book explains that. Everything she has done, or inspired people to do is there and it is amazing to read about. Think about your favorite person who has a biography that is just somewhat fascinating. Now up the interesting tidbits by about two hundred percent and you have TSWGO. I loved reading the chats and conversations Esther had with her friends in their online group, Catitude. I loved seeing how the friendships grew so strong so that nothing could break them. This book probed even the deepest bonds between people and exposed them to the world (that sounds awful, but trust me, it turned out great). The book explains how Esther loved so wholly and deeply. Everyone who knew her mentions that at some point when they wrote. She seems like someone I would have loved to meet. Other side. Yes, I have read some of the reviews that say "I just don't see what is so remarkable about Esther." And I understand where you are coming from, even if I do not agree in this particular case, because, wow, this girl did so much in her life, just by living. She inspired so many and she wanted to help as much as she could and more. But, I get what you reviewers are saying. I used to read magazine articles saying, "Sixteen-year-old runs marathon for her dad, who passed away due to ________" and I always said to myself, "I ran a marathon when I was fifteen. Where's my article?" But the fact remains that you have to blow on the flame a bit. You have to be good enough at what you do to inspire someone who has influence. Which Esther did. Both by making her own YouTube videos and by meeting John Green, Andrew Slack, Paul deGeorge, and many more. She was so good at loving and encouraging and living that she inspired some "top people". Therefore, she is known. If you want to be known for something, get out into the world and do something. Something inspirational, preferably. Robbing a bank will not get you millions of fans. Hopefully.
    • 5/5
      I haven't cried from a book in a really long time. I knew ester would make me cry though.
    • 5/5
      This Star Won't Go Out is a memoir about Esther Grace Earl. Esther Earl is A nerdfighter (an online community that the vlog brothers built)with this online community she makes many internet friends and is very satisfied with the connections so far yet she has one secret she’s holding herself back from telling to everyone. She has been diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer. She's keeping herself away from saying she has cancer because she doesn't want her online friends to feel pity for her. As she’s navigating her way through the online world there's also her personal life which is also very hard on her. She is going to extensive hospital visits once a week, Keeps a happy face for her family, and she’s keeping her emotions to herself, and worst of all feeling afraid of passing away. As time goes on she touches more people with her experiences with cancer yet she still feels useless at times overall like people just tell her she's an inspiration just to make her feel good about herself. One of Esther's biggest aspirations was to become an author so she kept a journal to write how she was feeling that day. I personally loved the imagery she used when she felt sad and loved how you could feel her sadness through her words when she had to pick her graveyard placement but also at other times I could feel the excitement she felt to finally meet her internet friends. I also enjoyed the personal touch her family put into it, her mom and dad(Lori and Wayne earl) at times put there own entries into this book to say how much they love Esther but also because they had their own blog page to make updates on Esther's health and how she was doing where occasionally she did write as well. Lastly there was a diversity between pages. It would be one overly excited page and the next would be a very hard feeling or feeling of despair. I loved this book so much because of the family and friend aspect it had but also how much I could relate to Esther at times. If you love books with a heartfelt feel 100% recommend
    • 2/5
      I had been wanting to read this book for a long time. Not that I have much of a connection to Esther, but because I have a connect to John Green. I read some reviews and they are very mixed. I have mixed feelings as well.

      I do agree that if not for John Green, no one would care. I honestly would not have picked up this book and read it if he had no part in it. That’s awful to say but it is incredibly true.

      My heart does break when children die of disease and cancers. They are too innocent and young to deserve such pain. But this book doesn’t show me or any other reader anything new or different. They are just journal entries. Journal entries and bible quotes and website updates. Nothing so deserving of a book so large it makes my arm fall asleep while I read it. It’s all relatively generic.

      I’m not completely heartless in the fact that I do feel for the family. It’s heartbreaking. I get it. I don’t know what I expected, but it was more then what I got.
    • 2/5
      I'll try to keep this simple, since those that LOVE!!! this book and LOVE!!!, The Fault in Our Stars, will be totally clueless about why everyone else doesn't LOVE!!! this book. Despite the credit being given to Esther Earl for this book, it is clearly packaged and enhanced by others. Yes, the nominal author was a gifted, attractive, personable, white girl with a particularly supportive family and an incurable disease. She was also much more "normal" than those people who have canonized would possibly concede. It's really too bad a "normal" person can't be appreciated for just being another human being. That should be enough...even without dying young.
    • 5/5
      BLURB: A collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Photographs and essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.

      RATING: 5 STARS FOR THIS STAR WON'T GO OUT BY: ESTHER EARL
      STARTED: JULY 9,2014
      FINISHED: JULY 17,2014





      REVIEW: This book was filled with all of Esthers past diaries,notes, and letters. They fulfilled my sadness for how she felt as I was reading her letters and writings. She made me think more about living my life out and doing events that I felt was right for me. Currently I got extractions for four teeth today and I was thinking about Esther and how she went through more pain then me and she had cancer! I was telling myself to stop crying just because I was thinking what if I had something worst to me happen then just this. It made me think more logically about thinking everything through and do the best for me and my family. I hope Esther's legacy lives on through everyone and everyone gets to read this book.
    • 3/5
      Not to minimize the tragedy of Esther Grace Earl's untimely death from cancer, This Star Won't Go Out is not an overly interesting book, at least the first 50 pages aren't and you need to get through those to see if the latter part of the book is interesting. I never made it past page 50.

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    • 5/5
      Esther (Persian for "star") Earl was a bright and talented, but very normal teenage girl who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 12. Despite her declining health, she lived a hope-filled and generous life focused on loving and caring for others. She was a cheerful, positive and encouraging daughter, sister and friend. She passed away in 2010 at the age of 16, but she left her mark on this world despite leaving it much too soon.This unique memoir is a collection of her journals, stories, letters, and sketches, with photographs, and essays written by her family and friends to help tell her story.Even though this book is aimed at young adult readers, I am 51 years old, and I loved it! I am living with terminal cancer myself, and I wish I could do it with even half of the grace that Esther possessed. Even with our age differences, I could relate to so much of Esther's thoughts and feelings about living with terminal illness, and the roller coaster of emotions that it puts you through.There are very sad moments in this book, of course, but overall, it's a very joyous book at the same time, a celebration of her life, a life well lived in such a short time; not for her accomplishments, but for how she cared for and loved others. Esther readily admits her flaws also, which makes you love her even more, because she was human.I love this quote from the introduction to her story by author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars): "And most of all, she was a person, complete and complex. We have a habit of imagining the dying as fundamentally other from well. We hold them up as heroes and imagine they have reserves of strength forbidden to the rest of us. We tell ourselves that we will be inspired through the stories of their suffering- we will learn to be grateful for every day, or learn to be more empathetic, or whatever. These responses, while certainly well-intentioned, ultimately dehumanize the dying: Esther was uncommon not because she was sick, but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life."I totally feel the same way, but I never knew how to put it into words, and I thank John Green for doing so. I also thank her friends and family for sharing their"Star" with the rest of us.(I'm sorry if this review is a long one, but this book just resonates with me so much!). I also loved reading about Esther's online community of friends, and how they were all there for her. I am very lucky also to have many wonderful online friends, and they are just as "real" as IRL (in real life) friends, even though a former friend of mine once told me they were not. And on that note, I have to quote John Green just one more time:“I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out the prisons of our selves."
    • 5/5
      My sister died when I was a sophomore in high school. She was only a few years older than me and her battle with cancer took up much of her young life. Her loss left a hole in the hearts of my brothers and sisters that we still feel to this day. She was the bravest person I know and I truly believe that every ounce of bravery and compassion I have in my body I learned from her. I miss her terribly.

      I was afraid to read this book. I read the introduction by John Green and started crying. 30 years after my sisters death it was still hard to think about it. I put the book down. Tonight I decided to read it and I am glad I did. Esther's words were powerful. Her bravery was astounding. Her words and story made me love and cherish my sister even more. I am not going to pretend like this book will cause some sort of epiphany. I also don't believe the loss of Esther or my sister or any of the people we have all lost in our lives will suddenly have meaning. Will suddenly be transformed into a happy ending. Nothing will replace the lost years. What the book did do was give me a chance to remember my sister's courage. My sister's love. This was a book worth reading. I thank Esther and her family for letting me share it.

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