part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Re: itt: last book you read

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Yes, the one with the illustrated cover by gingerhaze.

To be honest it gave me a lot of feelings because I could related so well to the "awkward girl reluctantly goes to college and can barely functions" angle. That being said, it's pretty apt that the book was about fanfiction and fandom, because it reads like a fanfic so many ways. Despite all of her problems, she still ends up with everything going her way to the point that she *SPOILER* wins an award for a final she half-asses basically the night before it was due despite receiving an extension of a whole semester to work on it because her teacher is so in love with her characters and writing.

Which I guess only happened because everyone around her is an asshole, at least initially. There were about 5 instances where someone insisted she do something she didn't want to do, despite her telling them "no, I don't want to do this" multiple times. To be honest it pissed me off, but in hindsight the main character did a lot of "I actually do want to do this, but I'll say I don't until this character forces me to tee-hee" moments, so I guess there wouldn't be a story without them totally disrespecting and disregarding her wishes. Maybe that's why I didn't end up with a boyfriend and an award in college; when I said "no I don't want to go to the party" I actually meant it and my roommate didn't literally drag me out of the room to it. I donno.

Despite those things the book wasn't bad. Some things, like the relationship between the main character and her mom, were well handled, and the author actually did know about fandom which I appreciate. But overall it wasn't a great book like I was hoping either. Even for fanficiton. So yeah, 5-6/10 from me.