BR 02 ~ Erika & Jenny; Start date: 1st November

[Erika]

Hi Jenny!

[Jenny]

Hi! Erika.. Sorry that I haven't noticed the thread. I'm new to the NBTR Buddy read system.What are your reading preferences? I like fantasy,Historical Romance, Romance, YA, Mystery & Horror. What would you like to read?

[Erika]

It's okay :) great that you found it now. I mostly read YA, fantasy and scifi. I don't know yet which book I'd like to read. Do you have any book in your mind? :)

[Jenny]

Yes,I've got a few books in my mind that I need to catch up with:
1. -Nominated for best in Fiction 2014.
2. -YA
3. -Nominated for best in YA 2014
4. -Nominated for best in YA 2014
5. -Nominated for best in Horror 2014.
6. -A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.(Given 5 stars by a lot)
7. -2013 Fiction Winner.
8. -2012 YA Winner

[Erika]

Hey I've wanted to read Fangirl for really long time :D Could we read it? :)

[Jenny]

Sure! When should we start it?

[Erika]

I could start today

[Jenny]

I'm currently reading . Can we start by,say..6th? (Don't worry..We've got the whole month! And if we finish early, we could read another one from the list which you find interesting!)Or you can start today and I'll join you on 6th.How does that sound? You can spoiler the comments throughout the way.

[Erika]

That's fine if start on 6th :) I can read something else before that

[Jenny]

Oh! Thanks.. :)

[Jenny]

Thanks,Shinjini!

[Jenny]

Erika, I'm going to start!

[Erika]

Okay :) I'm really busy today so I'll start reading it in the evening

[Jenny]

So far so..good I love College stories, especially...And Dorm based stories..I think the boy and Cath are gonna hook up.

[Jenny]

This book lacks flow..Especially, the dialogues are hitched-don't you think?I think it's going to be a problem..

[Jenny]

I wonder if you like living in Hostels. Everybody seems to point out the advantages of dorms. But there are a few like me who can't stand hostels-The noise, the intruders into privacy & better the roommates we get be treatable.

[Jenny]

This co-ed hostel seems amazing!How much bad experiences I have had with hostels, I wonder if I was in a life like Cath's(But without a sister..)

[Jenny]

My sister is in a hostel and she seems to enjoy every moment of it!

[Jenny]

Fanfixx Account? So the story is starting already..

[Meera]

Which book?

[Jenny]

Simone Snow series.

[Jenny]

We're reading

[Meera]

Oh Fangirl...we did E&P last month...:-):-)

[Jenny]

E&P,Meera?

[Meera]

Eleanor and Park by Rowell !

[Jenny]

How was it?

[Meera]

it was fun to read..3 or 4 star fun...:-):-)

[Jenny]

I'm amazed! All these years of GRing...I didn't find out about E&P!I mean..This is just my type of book!(As Fangirl is)

[Meera]

Haha.....sometimes you have to meet the right person who ll point to a single right thing..:-P:-P

was kidding....glad to have jumped into this thread.....Me and Ishi have a thread of our own ....do come for tea once in a while :-):-)

[Jenny]

Which tea do you serve there? You see, I'm on Diet-can only have Green tea-Andarwala snan..:p

[Meera]

Haha...u ll be put on special mineral water then :-P

Not even milk and milk products?

[Jenny]

I was kidding..*winks* But do put me on mineral water..:p

[Jenny]

10%~ I don't think people will wag after a person who is not so friendly and stubbornly don't want friends.

[Jenny]

19/160-That's why sisters are for-To comfort each other,to say that,"It's Okay, You have me" in the worst circumstances..

[Meera]

Hmm..u guys shud update ur book title along with ur BR name title....or else hoppers like me will get confused..:-):-)

[Jenny]

26/160-"Cath almost said yes.Instead she shook her head." Why do you think Cath shook her head? She could have gone with Reagan and Levi to the Muggsy's. Something pulled her back.What might be it?(I remember having the same situation where I had to refuse going out with friends just because I was afraid of getting out of my comfort zone. But I just don't feel it right in Cath's situation.")

[Erika]

I think she didn't go because she just rather wanted to write her fan fiction than hang out with people. And probably she didn't like drinking alcohol :D

[Jenny]

Wowzy! After a long time..

[Erika]

What?? :D

[Jenny]

I was saying that you are here after a long time..

[Erika]

Oh sorry I kinda forgot to come here and I had lot's of school work :) I usually get an email when someone comments but for some reason not this time :/ but I promise to be more active now :)

[Jenny]

I see..it's okay,Erika..Give more importance to your school work, okay?

[Erika]

Okay :)

[Jenny]

89/160-

"Do you think Dad let it? Do you think he chose to fall apart when she left?" "Yes!" Wren was shouting now."And I think he keeps choosing. I think you both do.You'd rather be broken than move on"

I think medicine deals with healing the broken mind and Religion deals with moving on. I've heard a lot by Religious persons that,being broken is a state of mind and not an illness. It tells us to forgive, forget and move on. But what is the baseline? Why does some people choose to move on(maybe they are stronger) and some depends on medicine? Why does sad persons choose to be broken than move on, even if everyone think that, moving on is better? Why can't everyone just forget,forgive and move on?

That'd indeed make world a better place!

[Erika]

I agree with you. It would be easier for everyone if people just moved on and didn't think about the past. I don't know why it is so difficult to stop worrying

[Erika]

Okay I am finished :) are you?

[Jenny]

We had severe monsoon here in Kerela,and with the roadworks(they are digging up and breaking the optical fiber internet cables with laterite soil) got cut off from internet since 12/11. I finished the book on Nov 21st too! I'm posting my review:

At first, I thought...’it’s just my type of story-A type of story I have been waiting for, for a long long time-A story to be discovered just for me.’
I could relate to Cath in many ways, and 90% of her situations, (left that I couldn’t cope up with the nervousness offered by college hostel and I left. And it was not a co-ed dorm.)
After about 30%, the ‘freshness’ began to wear off, and I was ploughing through the story. It was interesting, with Levi and Nick the combined writing and all, but I couldn’t find myself, or, anything as a lesson from the story. And it started failing to comfort me even. At 50%, everything wore off, I couldn’t take it anymore and I started to fail. With a lot of pacing, between the book and that it was not stimulating me neither in sense of art nor intellectually, did I decide to go on in vain hope of finding something, anything that’d bring me back to the book. The book is full of dialogues. Hardly any matter. And I don’t enjoy dialogues-but I hope I’ll see something and start to enjoy it if I go on. This book is for 16 year olds and I’m 22-I can feel the difference. This was in short a boring book for me. But around 80%, the book began to pick up pace. I love the scenes with Cath and Levi.
It took me 17 days for me to finish! 17 Days! This means that the book was quite not captivating for me.
A Few thoughts:
1. "Thousand words of Simon. She’d made so much progress tonight, she was thinking about taking a break tomorrow to start her Fiction-Writing assignment—maybe she’d even finish it. It would be awesome to tell Levi she was done when he came home on Sunday."
I don't think the name 'Fangirl' suits the book. Yes, it revolves around Simon and Baz, but not even deeply enough to affect the name of the book. I think this story revolves around Cath and her life,(and Simon and But are only a small part of it, or maybe it's because the author couldn't establish the importance of Simon and Baz in Cath's life.)some title related to Cath and her life would have been more sensible.
2. She wrote a thousand words.
She wrote five hundred more.
I can't see why fanfic is important in this book. I mean, it doesn't even do anything,anything in this book!It doesn't make the book move if you know what I mean. why the fuss and why the name?
3. was thinking that next year we could room together. We could live in Pound, if you want; I don’t care.”
Cath stopped and turned to her sister. Wren kept walking for a second before she noticed and stopped, too.
“You want to be roommates?” Cath asked.
Wren was nervous. She shrugged. “Yeah. If you want to. If you’re not still mad about … everything.”
“I’m not mad,” Cath said. She remembered the day last summer when Wren told her she didn’t want to live together.
Everything is coming back again to the normal habit,the beginning. It would be like, Cath and Wren are in their home again. They could look out for each other.
4. “Are you going to snog the Humdrum—is that your plan? Because he’s eleven. And he looks just like you. That’s both vain and deviant, Snow, even for you.”
Only thing I can understand is that, simon fighting his 11 year old self could analogously mean people fighting their past.

And the ending was poor. It wasn’t looped. May be, it isn’t supposed to be looped. But I got a hunch that Rowell was in a hurry to finish the story. The story is INCOMPLETE! May be it’s supposed to end with the 8th book coming out. May be that’s the whole point of the book! But it didn’t feel that way. The lovey dovey stuff and Cath’s life may be meant as filler between the fanfic. For me, that was quite the opposite.
Anyway, a soft 3.5 stars from me.

[Jenny]

How did you feel about the book? Maybe, you feel more connected with the character with your age approximately same, I think?

[Erika]

Wow that is a long review, don't expect I can write that much :D but anyway I'm 16 and I'm also a fangirl so I found this book really good. Maybe because I could relate so much to the main character. Like me, she likes to write and read and she is not very social. But there were a couple of things I didn't like.
First, almost every book I've read has action or it is fantasy/scifi book but this was not. So it was boring at some points. Especially when the characters only spoke to each other.
Second, there could have been less that fanfiction. I understand it was a big part of Cath's life but still.
Third, the ending! Like you said it was really, really stupid. When I finished the book I was like okay, nice book but what happened to characters. Seriosly, why didn't the author give the story some fancy ending? Why did she leave it incomplete?
Still, I gave it 5 stars because I enjoyed the book a lot :)

[Jenny]

I agree that it was boring at some points. And I've read some reviews and a lot other people have said the same thing. And the dialogues- Sometimes I lost the thread of the story just because of the long dialogues. The book was just okay for me. But I enjoyed some parts of the book a lot like the scenes with Cath and Levi, and-Cath and Wren.