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#1 New York Times bestselling author! In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life-and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone. For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind? A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A New York Times Best Seller!
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3 primary booksFangirl is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2013 with contributions by Rainbow Rowell.
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Read my review on my blog here: https://theconsultingbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/fangirl-rainbow-rowell/
I adored everything about this book. Characters, storylines, everything.
I will confess that I've never written fan-fiction, and have only read a few stories. That said, I don't think this book is about fan-fiction, so much as (when it succeeds) about moving in to a new stage of life, and the fears, failures and triumphs that doing so can entail. Cather resonated with me–the overwhelming feeling that going to college can engender, the weight of having some social anxiety, the fun and fear of falling for somebody when you're 18.
I also mostly liked how Rowell included and dealt with mental illness in this book.
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