Great review. You nailed what it is about Rowell’s books that I love so much, and it’s that every character she writes, I think that is me, and she somehow gives me the ability to forgive myself.
Wow, you captured this book so well. I think of all her books (and I adore them all), Fangirl is the one which hit the closest to home for me, because while I’ve never had a twin and I’ve never written fanfic, I too was painfully shy and terrified when I went to college – made even more scary by the fact that I was 18, and away from home in a foreign country (from Norway, went to University in Scotland) for the first time, and everyone seemed to be surviving the whole experience so much better than me. I didn’t have a Reagan, but I did make other friends who pulled me out of myself, and after that first semester, when I felt like I was drowning, more often than not, I even started to have fun.
I got this book as an ARC from NetGalley last year and loved it so much that I had trouble reviewing it for CBR5. You captured the experience of this book so well, and I wish I’d been able to say even half as many eloquent things. I forget, but I think much of my review was incoherent gushing.
Great review. You nailed what it is about Rowell’s books that I love so much, and it’s that every character she writes, I think that is me, and she somehow gives me the ability to forgive myself.
That’s a beautiful way to put it. Rowell has some powerful magic herself. Forget Simon Snow.
Wow, you captured this book so well. I think of all her books (and I adore them all), Fangirl is the one which hit the closest to home for me, because while I’ve never had a twin and I’ve never written fanfic, I too was painfully shy and terrified when I went to college – made even more scary by the fact that I was 18, and away from home in a foreign country (from Norway, went to University in Scotland) for the first time, and everyone seemed to be surviving the whole experience so much better than me. I didn’t have a Reagan, but I did make other friends who pulled me out of myself, and after that first semester, when I felt like I was drowning, more often than not, I even started to have fun.
I got this book as an ARC from NetGalley last year and loved it so much that I had trouble reviewing it for CBR5. You captured the experience of this book so well, and I wish I’d been able to say even half as many eloquent things. I forget, but I think much of my review was incoherent gushing.