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Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 31, 2018

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Feb 11, 2016 Rebecca Carter rated it liked it

Shelves: contemporary, fiction, contemporary-romance, ya, cultural-united-states, romance, writing-books-about-books, 2016-reads

Fangirl is a coming of age story about 2 twins - Cath and Wren - who are just about to go off to college. Up until this point in their lives they have done everything together and were rarely apart, kind of like each other's shadows. To Caths dismay Wren decides that she would like them to live more separate lives at university, and that includes not being each others roommates. Cath suffers social anxiety and is more interested in writing fanfiction - Simon Snow, loosely based on Harry Potter - Fangirl is a coming of age story about 2 twins - Cath and Wren - who are just about to go off to college. Up until this point in their lives they have done everything together and were rarely apart, kind of like each other's shadows. To Caths dismay Wren decides that she would like them to live more separate lives at university, and that includes not being each others roommates. Cath suffers social anxiety and is more interested in writing fanfiction - Simon Snow, loosely based on Harry Potter - rather than going to parties and initially struggles adjusting to her new life. This is how Reagan and Levi enter Caths world - but to say much more would be to spoil things, so I'll shut up now.

I found this book ok. However I think that's because of my stage of life. If I'd read this book when I was a teenager I would have loved it and i'd definitely recommend it to younger adults.
I wish the boys I'd met at college were like Levi. That's another gripe of mine, some books aimed at ya make particular guys out to be the perfect knight in shining armour gentleman figure, and literally the dream guy of young girls fantasies. If most girls (99.5% of them) were hoping to meet a guy like Levi (especially with his patience at 21), they'd be in for a long wait, and books such as these really will dash many girls high expectations when they find out for themselves that this isn't reality for most people.

I do think my 3 star rating is probably a bit harsh and simply because I'm not in my teens so find it harder to relate to now. However i can remember being at university in my first few months and feeling similar to Cath. It did take a while to adjust and start really enjoying college life and becoming more involved. I think there are a few good life lessons for younger readers to take away from this book, it's just I've already learnt them.
I'll not let this discourage me from trying another of Rainbow Rowells books, but next time I'll read one of her books that are aimed at adults because I did enjoy her writing style. ...more

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May 17, 2014 Ocean Weeks rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-ya

"There was a boy in her room. Cath looked up at the number painted on the door, then down at the room assignment in her hand. Pound Hall, 913."

So, I devoured this book. I've had Fangirl for a really long time because I absolutely adored Eleanor and Park but I've been putting off reading this one. I'm not entirely sure why that is but I definitely wish I had read this sooner. Mainly because Cath is quite a bit like me in the way that she thinks and her perspective, and the things that she happe ...more

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Jul 21, 2015 Alethea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: enjoyable-reads, fun-light-read, the-reason-i-live, oh-the-fluff

Post re-read

Boy am I proud of my younger self. Usually when I skim through my old ratings the most common thought ringing through my head is what were you thinking??? But I loved Fangirl then, and I definitely still love it now. Maybe even more.

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Pre-re-read

I don't normally like to re-read books but life is being a bitch atm and there's a little voice in my head that is telling me to read this book.

So I listen to that voice.

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1st read

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Apr 30, 2015 Luci Limón rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-read

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Sep 07, 2014 Karolina Zych rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: really-enjoy

Choć miałam bardzo mieszane uczucia do tej książki, okazała się świetna. Cath jest nieśmiałą osobą, która lubi czytać i pisać fanfiction. Co czyni z niej typową książkoholiczke dlatego bardzo łatwo było się z nią upodobnić. Łatwo można było zrozumieć jej problemy, rozumienie świata i problemy z wyjściem ze swojej bezpiecznej strefy.
Wątek miłosny jest niezwykły, a zarazem bardzo prosty. Relacja między Cath a Levim jest niesamowicie normalna, widać to bardzo kiedy Levi na pierwszą randkę nie zabie ...more

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Aug 24, 2014 Breanne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

I loved this book. There isn`t much to complain about except I wish the ending wasn`t so open. It was really great and I want to just reread it a thousand times over. ...more

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Mar 01, 2015 ⚡ mary rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary-ya

"I'm just really active in the fandom."
"What the fuck is 'the fandom'?"

I really enjoyed reading this, especially as a fellow fangirl. This novel does not revolve around being a fangirl, it is a big part of it, but it mostly revolves around Cath, the main character, going off to college.

The characters in the story were very well developed. I related a lot to Catch's character. And it was a very easy and quick read.

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