Call It.

[redbrunja]

Has anyone read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell?

Because I got it from the library and I don't know if I want to keep reading.

One, because having a fandom front and central in a book makes me a bit uncomfortable (ignore the woman typing behind the curtain!).

Two, because I have the feeling that she's going to ~learn a lesson~ about going out into the world and being less shy.

And three, because she's a slash fangirl, and I have no fucking patience for interludes that are the "canon" of her slash pairing and no fucking patience for slash being written about in a completely unexamined (i.e. ladies, what ladies, why should there be ladies?) way.

Comments

[platypus]

I agree with all of this, though I also had a major embarrassment squick moment involving her disagreement with her writing professor. (And I skimmed the in-story fic, because it did not interest me at all.) But I enjoyed the story and the writing, and went on to read Eleanor and Park (which was definitely a better book).

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Oh right. That bit was surprising to me. That she honestly didn't have the savvy to know the professor wouldn't think that was acceptable when she seemed aware of the stigma of fanfic/fandom in general. A little bit contrived.