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Post by Aurareader on Jun 27, 2014 14:27:48 GMT -8
Hello my dear readers! This is where I will be posting my book reviews and wonderful insights on the books I read! Here, you can recommend a book for me or ask any questions about books I reviewed. Thank you.
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Post by Aurareader on Jun 27, 2014 14:29:00 GMT -8
Hello everybody, my name is Aurareader and welcome to...Aura's Appraisals Fangirl By Rainbow Rowell
Rating:This was the first the Rainbow Rowell book I ever read, and it certainly won't be my last. Rowell here had achieved a mere sample of what it's like to be in a fandom. She shows the readers the hard work it takes to be in a fandom and balance that out with your normal everyday life. Cath, our heroine in this modern story, is a dedicated Simon Snow fan. Simon Snow is a parody of the Harry Potter franchise (in which Simon and Harry both exists in this world). She also has a twin sister, but that's not the main point here. Cath is heading off towards college, and without her twin sister being there for her all the time. Cath faces against the challenges of being an antisocial geeky fan AND just plain college. Plus, as a freshman, she takes a junior level Fiction Writing Class and her professor thinks that fanfiction is the end of the English world as we know it. Cath faces against all of these obstacles in her way, while still continuing updating her Simon Snow fanfiction, which she has worked on for over 2-3 years. I absolutely loved this story. I could relate to it at a high school level while relating towards it at the fandom level. I also related towards Cath about how she can't make up her own characters and can totally feel right using other people's characters, like in a fanfiction. Not only that, Cath has an amazing personality of being a nerd and the fact on how she loves someone. But I'm not here explaining why I love this book, I'm here to tell you why you should read it. First things first, Cath throughout the entire book has went through subtle personality changes. Subtle, but not too subtle that you can't tell. She had evolved, reluctantly, as the months went by at her college life. She still the geeky awkward girl that we all know and love, but she changes, and change is good after all. Cath undergoes a change and I just can't tell how she changes. I know she changed but I can't place my finger on it. The best way to describe it is that she has moved one with her life and towards a future she can live for. The symbolism in the book is amazing. Cath's main symbol of the entire thing is her Simon Snow fanfiction. She has spent her entire life dedicated to it. I mean, the symbolism of that fanfiction is pretty great to me. Think about it. That fanfiction is basically her life's work. She has spent countless hours awake at night typing and typing just to please her fans and trying to complete it before the final book in the Simon Snow series comes out. To her, that fanfiction represents something that's reliable and something she can count on. This is her dedication right here. If she doesn't finish it, ti means another abandoned friend. It means so much more to than just a story. More importantly, it's the only connection she has left to her twin sister and not only that, it represents Cath's life as a fanfiction writer. And I just loved what she does with the fanfiction at the end. Let's talk about Cath's struggles and complications. Cath has faced a variety of college problems. For instance, her writing Professor thought Cath was an amazing writer...until she turned in a fanfiction. Her writing professor pushes her to write an original short story. Cath is forced to think of characters and she doesn't like that. She feels comfortable having characters made up for her and getting inside their heads and spinning a new universe for them. She doesn't feel comfortable making a story out of thin air. But she persists after thinking about it several times with a certain someone. And she tries and tries and it comes out right. It comes out something wonderful. That's only one of the main conflicts in the book however. I can't say anymore than that, though! Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell is a must read for anyone in a fandom right now. And believe me, if you watched TV or read a book, then you're definitely in a fandom. I give this book 5/5 for the amazing character development, symbolism, and conflicts. Rowell has outdone herself with this insight into the look of fanfiction writers and artists. I recommend this book for anyone to read!
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Post by chloe on Oct 5, 2014 3:55:50 GMT -8
Sounds like a really good book and something we could all relate to.
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