On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Hardcover
433 pages
433 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park.
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park.
A coming-of-age tale of fan
fiction, family and first love.
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? Writing her own
stories?
And does she even want to move on
if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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