Fangirl is one of my favorite books. It is part of my favorites shelf.
Fangirl is a book about a girl named Cather Avery, who just went into college, she is a major in English. Cath, which is what she wants to be called, is a fan of the Simon Snow series (a book series similar to Harry Potter) along her twin sister Wren. Cather and Wren (Cather Wren, Catherine, haha. Get it?) used to write fan fiction about Simon and Baz, the main characters of the series like, say, Potter and Malfoy. Wren is over it and wants to live her college life, while Cather is scared and just got into college to please her sister, which makes her get into situations like eating from her stack of energy bars and peanut butter from under her bed to avoid the cafeteria. She still writes a fanfic called Carry on Simon. Many of the troubles she faces include romance, family trouble, health, and problems with "College Stuff".
The book Fangirl is a very, very, great book. I definitely recommend it. It is funny, yet deep at the same time, and Cather's humorous and sarcastic behavior makes the book funny and lively. While Wren, Reagan, and Levi amongst the other characters make the book interesting and get Cather into lots of trouble.
I rate this this book four starts out of five.
About the Author: (credit to Rainbow Rowell's webpage: http://rainbowrowell.com/blog/about/)
Rainbow Rowell writes books.
Sometimes she writes about adults (Attachments and Landline).
Sometimes she writes about teenagers (Eleanor & Park and Fangirl).
But she always writes about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like they’re screwing up. And people who fall in love.
When she’s not writing, Rainbow is reading comic books, planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that don’t really matter in the big scheme of things.
She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.
Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl summary (find this inside the book or in the back cover)
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 fanfiction, 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 fanfiction 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?
-love xx
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