Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

[shadowscast]

Popping in to say: I just finished reading Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, and that was a delightful experience.

(I wish I could sit down and write a long, leisurely post about the elements that I loved, but I'm currently teaching an extra class to cover a paternity leave, and so I am overworked and tired and have to go to bed now.)

ETA: Stuff happened, and suddenly I did have time to write that post; you can read it here!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Well if you ever do, that's meta too :)

Unfortunately, while Mike gets spring break next week he will be on campus every day anyway since they are all having to prepare for a potential shutdown. Teaching classes online isn't an issue, and most of the semester's labs have been done. However he is very anxious about the students' fieldwork hours which have to meet a minimum for them to qualify for graduation. What's more, lining up future fieldwork is very iffy right now. This is a whole bunch more work on top of his usual workload.

[shadowscast]

Well if you ever do, that's meta too :)

Oh yes, that's true, isn't it? :-D

Well, now I think I'm going to. What with all my unexpected free time this weekend (having cancelled all social gatherings, and not needing to prep for Monday's classes).

This is a whole bunch more work on top of his usual workload.

Oof, poor Mike!

I don't know yet if I'm going to have to try to teach online, or extend classes into what would have been the summer vacation, or what—we're awaiting further instructions from the Ministry.

[tarotgal]

So glad you liked it! It's one of my favorites! We've read it twice for book discussions with my Harry Potter meetup group.

That moment where she runs into a fan of her fic at the library? I've had that moment. If you read Carry On / Wayward Son, I hope you enjoy them just as much!

[shadowscast]

So glad you liked it! It's one of my favorites!

Oh neat!

We've read it twice for book discussions with my Harry Potter meetup group.

Twice?! Wow, you must really have liked it! :-D I can imagine those being super fun discussions.

That moment where she runs into a fan of her fic at the library? I've had that moment.

Oh, that is so cool!!! That would be a memory to treasure. :-D

[avrelia]

I read it! it was lovely, but now I remember almost nothing. BUt if you write more, I'll be delighted t o read

[shadowscast]

I think I will, now that I have this unexpected free time!

[carbonel]

I read it a few months ago (after it was recommended by Naomi Kritzer on a convention panel) and found it delightful. I zipped through reading it, then almost immediately reread it.

The two follow-on novels, Rowell's take on the Simon story, are interesting, but didn't entrance me the same way.

[shadowscast]

I'm intrigued by the idea that she took the fictional book-within-a-book and made it real, but I haven't investigated further yet. Did she actually write it around the snippets that were in Fangirl?

[carbonel]

She wrote it around the plot of the book-in-a-book, but I don't think she used the actual snippets. In an author's note, she says it's definitely not the exact story, and that it's darker than the Fangirl version.