TFiOS Soundtrack

Yesterday, the soundtrack for the TFiOS (or The Fault in Our Stars) film was released. Here's the lineup:

Ed Sheeran – All Of The Stars

Jake Bugg – Simple As This

Grouplove – Let Me In

Birdy & Jaymes Young – Best Shot

Kodaline – All I Want

Tom Odell – Long Way Down

Charli XCX – Boom Clap

STRFKR – While I’m Alive

Indians – Oblivion

The Radio Dept. – Strange Things Will Happen

Afasi & Filthy – Bomfallarella

Ray LaMontagne – Without Words

Birdy – Not About Angels

Lykke Li – No One Ever Loved

M83 – Wait

Birdy – Tee Shirt (Bonus Track)

TSWGO and TFiOS Trailer

A week of acronyms and initialisms! I'm going to talk about two things this week, both broadly related to Nerdfighteria (and if you're a nerdfighter, chances are you know what the title of this post actually means!)

Firstly, the book by the late Esther Earl, a committed nerdfighter who died of thyroid cancer in 2010 aged 16, came out this week. It's called "This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl", and is a collection of entries from her journals, as well as letters, emails, drawings and anecdotes, collated by her parents and introduced by the author John Green, with whom she had a close friendship. The phrase "This Star Won't Go Out" was thought up by one of Esther's friends in the months before she died as a sort of protest against the idea that death erases a person - "Esther" means "star", and so it fundamentally means that even after her death, Esther will continue to live in the memories of those whose lives she touched - and her commitment to Nerdfighteria makes that an awful lot of lives.