Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
13/10/13 18:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomySo, apparently, twins fighting with each other goes in my "It's too sad, I can't read this" column. Fangirl might have been even worse with twin stuff (by worse I don't mean bad, I just mean FEELS) than Among Others.
Before reading this I was a little apprehensive that so few writers get twin stuff right, so it's interesting to me that Rowell writes a twin relationship that's so different from my own but totally believable in its own way. (I'm very much like Cath in that I tended to rely on my more outgoing twin to take the lead in social stuff when we still lived at home, and we've always gotten along better than Cath and Wren, but we didn't even seriously consider going to the same college.)
This is one of the books I wish I could send back in time to myself, but not for twin stuff or writer stuff; it's the being in a new place thing, and being terrified of going to the cafeteria and talking to other students, and trying to manage the anxiety around that, and being afraid that everyone else can see how scared and weird you are.
I don't want to read the Simon Snow books -- I read all the Harry Potter books, that's fine for me -- but I do want to read Carry On
I think (because we're talking about this for Mock Printz) that Eleanor & Park is a little bit of a better book, objectively -- it's a little tighter -- but as a person who basically is Cath except for the whole BNF thing, I just felt for her, so hard.
;__;
Before reading this I was a little apprehensive that so few writers get twin stuff right, so it's interesting to me that Rowell writes a twin relationship that's so different from my own but totally believable in its own way. (I'm very much like Cath in that I tended to rely on my more outgoing twin to take the lead in social stuff when we still lived at home, and we've always gotten along better than Cath and Wren, but we didn't even seriously consider going to the same college.)
This is one of the books I wish I could send back in time to myself, but not for twin stuff or writer stuff; it's the being in a new place thing, and being terrified of going to the cafeteria and talking to other students, and trying to manage the anxiety around that, and being afraid that everyone else can see how scared and weird you are.
I don't want to read the Simon Snow books -- I read all the Harry Potter books, that's fine for me -- but I do want to read Carry On
I think (because we're talking about this for Mock Printz) that Eleanor & Park is a little bit of a better book, objectively -- it's a little tighter -- but as a person who basically is Cath except for the whole BNF thing, I just felt for her, so hard.
;__;