It freaks me out a little bit when they do this.
Holds Rainbow and Yulin dolls in either hand, smushes them together. “Now collaborate!”
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Guys, did you know this? Now you know this.
Exciting news!!!
IT IS TRUE!!
Here’s more info about my next book:
Simon Snow just wants to relax and savor his last year at the Watford School of Magicks, but no one will let him. His girlfriend broke up with him, his best friend is a pest, and his mentor keeps trying to hide him away in the mountains where maybe he’ll be safe. Simon can’t even enjoy the fact that his roommate and longtime nemesis is missing, because he can’t stop worrying about the evil git. Plus there are ghosts. And vampires. And actual evil things trying to shut Simon down. When you’re the most powerful magician the world has ever known, you never get to relax and savor anything. Carry On is a ghost story, a love story, a mystery and a melodrama. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story — but far, far more monsters.
I’ve been waiting months for this news. And it turns out even better than I expected.
Supposedly there’s some other additional Fangirl news coming later this week. Movie deal, maybe?
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I enjoyed it very much. There are some elements that felt a little thin; as a native southern Californian I felt like I could see her relative unfamiliarity with the geographical setting at times. There also were a few points early on before I got sucked in when I thought she was trying too hard for a descriptive metaphor.
But at her strongest (character) it was everything I’ve come to love in her books. I liked seeing her focus on motherhood, and the obligations of a working mother toward her family. In past novels she’s had obvious issues with her viewpoint characters’ mothers; they’re problematic people, and she tends to leave them under-examined and unresolved in a way that I suspect reflects her own ambivalence. So I liked that this book put the protagonist in that role and made those issues central.
That the book deals with a (somewhat) older person’s concerns felt honest to me, as reflecting Rowell’s own life experience. And as someone who’s a fan of both time travel stories and romantic comedy, I enjoyed how she wove in those elements. On the rom-com thing, this book reminded me a lot of Attachments, which she explicitly described as an attempt to replicate a romantic comedy movie in book form. Landline does that too, and does it better than Attachments. I think it has a chance at a movie deal. I hope it gets one.
The cameo appearance by a couple from a previous book was fun. Knowing it was going to be there definitely had me guessing through the latter part of the book, and when it happened it was very satisfying. I’m not sure I would even have noticed without Rainbow having tipped people off on Twitter; it’s kind of subtle. But it made me happy.
Have you read Landline yet? If so, what did you think?
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lies:
I’m not sleeping until I finish this book.
(Featuring homemade chai hot chocolate.)
I believe it. Judging by my own experience, and others’ reports on Tumblr, staying up late to read Rainbow’s books is a common occurrence.
I don’t know the actual date yet; all I’ve seen is “spring/summer of next year.” But I expect to be up in the wee hours with Landline.
Greetings, me of the past. It’s me, me of the future. You were right. And the date you stay up into the wee hours to finish Landline will turn out to be today: Wednesday, July 9, 2014.
I suppose I could be telling you something more specifically useful, like the result of yesterday’s World Cup semifinal, so you could place a big bet and make scads of money.
But I think instead I’ll just use my magical ability to send Tumblr posts from the future to tell you you’re going to like Landline. A lot.
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Bon likes to read with me; she’s cute.
The best kind of plot bunny.
Eleanor & Park: very popular with bunnies.
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So I’m taking a quick break before I dive down the Kissing in the Rain fan-canon rabbit hole to post some stills from another weekend directing project of mine.
Some of my Tumblr friends might be familiar with a directing series on my personal channel, I Didn’t Write This, in which I take short excerpts of poetry and literature written by other people and adapt them as a directing/filmmaking exercise. We did an episode in which I adapted a short excerpt from John Green’s Looking for Alaska, since we had already recorded the audio for the Kissing in the Rain trailer.
A few weeks ago, I decided to finally check out Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl. I’d known about the book for a while and had been putting off reading it because I knew it would hit far, far too close to home (I’m a filmmaker whose creative origin story is tied pretty heavily to writing Harry Potter fanfic.) Reading Fangirl was like finding a long lost diary I’d forgotten I’d kept. I read it in two nights and fell completely and totally in love with these characters and the worlds they lived in, both in fictional fandom and IRL. Since I Didn’t Write This is my way of playing with source material I love, I knew I absolutely had to do a Fangirl episode of IDWT.
I want to direct this feature so badly it hurts YOU GUYS ASDLKFJLSDK FLERMMMMMMMM.I reached out to a few fanartists in the Tumblr tag because I thought it might be fun to use actual Fangirl fanart in my fangirl-directed fan-adaptation, so thanks goes to toerning for the sketches on Cath’s desk and doctorhooper for the fabulous poster design on the wall! We shot one scene adaptation and a few would-be promo stills as well. Much love to the always wonderful Mary Kate Wiles and the awesomely talented Denver Milord for being my Cath and Levi.
This episode of IDWT might take another week or so to come out while I work on Kissing in the Rain (which everyone should go watch Mary Kate being awesome in), so keep a look out and subscribe to my personal channel, maybe? If you like literary adaptations and shippy short films, it might be your kind of thing.
And just because it’s topical, hey look, here’s my old fanfiction.net profile. #nostalgia
Much love,
Yulin Kuang
writer // director // fangirl
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Haha. About five people I follow reblogged this in the short time since Yulin posted it, so my dash right now is basically Yulin!Fangirl / Yulin!Fangirl / Yulin!Fangirl / Yulin!Fangirl / Yulin!Fangirl…
Which is perfect. :-)
I know it’s greedy of me, but I really want to see Yulin’s Reagan. But I’m guessing that may have to wait for the feature. Also, Mary Kate as both Cath and Wren. Heh.
Closer…
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“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am that they’re going to get tired of me and take off.” – Cather
“If you study something that nobody cares about, does that mean everyone will leave you alone?” – Cather
“Nothing can break me unless I let it.” – Wren
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.”
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.
The amount of care that went into this …
It’s really, really beautiful. That top image is so powerful. Thank you.
I was all WAIT, is that Mary Kate as Cath? Cos if it is, that is perfect.
Oh, hey me. What is this?
EDIT: I have been informed that this is a book and I should probably read it cause it sounds cool.
Okay yulinkuang, the tumblr fates have spoken. You need to film marykatewiles to an excerpt from Fangirl.
seanpersaud would also make a pretty great Levi I’m just saying.
Whoa. My fandom streams just crossed Ghostbusters-style.
Excuse me. I need to go lie down.
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But I can’t share it until tomorrow.
(It’s not a sequel.) (I feel like I need to apologize for that.)
NEWS. TOMORROW.
Hopefully it’s not something like, “here’s a list of 5,000 more people who will be able to read Landline before you will, John.”
Hm. Let’s guess.
News of a title/publisher/publication date/something for her next (post-Landline) book?
News of a movie deal for Eleanor & Park? (kind of hoping it’s not that, though having crazy-movie-money thrown at Rainbow Rowell would have to be counted in the plus column, even if Hollywood-ized Eleanor seems inevitably to be something that would end up making me sad)
I’m having a hard time thinking of what else could qualify as ALL CAPS EXCITING (TO HER) NON-SEQUEL BOOK NEWS.
Maybe a particularly Rainbow-squee-inducing piece of recognition for of promotion of Eleanor & Park?
Guess I’ll have to tune in tomorrow.
Edit: Fan speculation seems to be leaning in the direction of a Simon Snow novel. Time will tell.
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Excited to start this new read!
Huh. New cover. And what’s this about bonus content?
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Reblogging to add the artist credit: This is by Tumblr user paperpie.
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“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport visit the #Rainbow Rowell tag on Tumblr.”
– me
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I did not, but it makes me very happy, as it always does when someone I’ve voted for actually wins. :-)
Heh. And in looking at Goodreads’ Best Young Adult Fiction for 2013, I see that second place went to Fangirl.
Clearly it’s Rainbow Rowell’s world. The rest of us are merely privileged to live here, and occasionally get a new book of hers to read.
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okay but
did Cath ever talk to the girl who called her her favorite author and absolutely loved “Carry On” again? did the girl ever find out she was Magicath?
THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED!
I wondered about this one too. Maybe if you ply her with Pumpkin Mocha Breve at an author event, Rainbow could be persuaded to reveal her headcanon?
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oh my glob this is so adorbs like i can’t even
Reblogging to add the source: This is How it all started by bellemrdch (IzziBelle on deviantart).
As an aside, I understand how Tumblr, and youthful net culture generally, is all about repurposing and remixing and grabbing and ripping and making something new without regard for stuffy old ideas like intellectual property and copyright. But the tremendously talented people who make beautiful fan art like this are making it out of love. They give it away for free. The least you can do, it seems to me, is keep their name on it.
And yeah, sites like weheartit are built around people reposting things without attribution. But it’s not that hard to find the original, and then you save everyone else who looks at your post from having to do that themselves, should they want to know more.
End rant…
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Panel on censorship, YA lit, and kids’ right to read:
Rainbow Rowell is going to be participating in a panel on censorship at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul this coming Tuesday night. Given the recent history of bullying adults trying to restrict Minnesota teens’ access to her book Eleanor & Park, I wish I could be there in solidarity.
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I’m not sleeping until I finish this book.
(Featuring homemade chai hot chocolate.)
I believe it. Judging by my own experience, and others’ reports on Tumblr, staying up late to read Rainbow’s books is a common occurrence.
I don’t know the actual date yet; all I’ve seen is “spring/summer of next year.” But I expect to be up in the wee hours with Landline.
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Sarah Says: Eleanor and Park – A Review:
Since finishing this book I’ve been experiencing an empty feeling, I wanted more, I wanted the book to go on forever or at least have a sequel. It was such an incredible book that I didn’t want it to end.
Park was my favourite character in this. I feel he put up with so much when it came to Eleanor, he was patient for the most part and did try to be understanding. It was nice to get the story from his point of view as well as Eleanor’s as if it was just from her point of view I’d be dying to know what Park thought of the strange red headed girl!
Every now and then I got annoyed with Eleanor. Her overreactions really drove me mad, I wanted to shout at her, tell her to just accept that Park liked her and that she was being ridiculous but then I saw myself in her insecurities so I let her be.
Of course she had been through so much crap in her life so that explains the way she was but I couldn’t help but wish she just accepted how much Park loved her and enjoyed it whilst she could instead of worrying.
From reading the first few lines of the book it’s obvious it doesn’t have the happy ending I wanted it to have but I admit it ended so much better than I thought, there was a glimmer of hope that they’d one day be together again.
I’d love for there to be a sequel! I want to know what happened to Eleanor’s Mum, sister and brothers and I guess even Richie though I hate him. I want to know if Eleanor and Park ever meet again, I hope they do, in my mind they do.
I definitely recommend this book but make sure you start it when you have a lot of free time as once I started this book I couldn’t put it down until I was done with it! It’s absolutely amazing.
“I just meant that… I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too…. That sounds bad, like a death threat or something. What I’m trying to say is, you’re it. This is it for me.”
Attention: Sequel. Sequel. SEQUEL.
*ahem*
sequel
Thank you.
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