I’m a fangirl of Fangirl
(NB: I’m pretending I have not taken an ages long hiatus here. Just keeping calm and trying to tumbl on.)
YOU GUYS: I stayed up way too late last night, Cath-style, to binge read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. And it. was. amazing. Like, I loved Eleanor and Park. But my feelings about Fangirl are in a different category. Maybe it’s because I fit perfectly into the category of new adult, and also am a young adult librarian. Maybe it’s because I’m so not any of the characters in the book, and yet I have seen what they have seen in my real life. I laughed, I cried, I stayed up late. Luckily my dog can sleep through everything and does not mind if I have to take a quick cry break and wipe my tears on his paws, or if I keep the light on well past bedtime.
Sigh. And this, just days after finishing Rose Under Fire. And a week after The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two. September and October have thus far been filled with publishing magic, as far as I’m concerned.
Also, Fangirl inspired me to write. While it consumed my Tuesday evening – thus reinforcing my opinion that I don’t have time for extracurricular writing – it left me wanting to recapture some of the magic of my halcyon college days which were chock-full of writing of all kinds. I wrote essays, long and short, I wrote stories, poems, newspaper articles, and editorials. I lived and breathed words like Cath thinks she does and seems to or wants to and then eventually really does (no spoiler). I write at work, sure, but I never linger over coffee while letting my fingers and brain have a special time together. I never indulge in frenzied I-am-a-genius-hear-me-roar writing sessions. I’m old and have a job, says the girl with an excuse for everything.
I’m going to fangirl Fangirl in my own special way by allowing what has been unlocked in my brain/heart/soul to come out a little bit maybe. We’ll see.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/64925239166.
