Fangirl
This week the girls talk the incredibly charming Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - the lightest of our look at unusual heroines so far and (maybe as a result - we're very sorry Ms Rowell *sadface*) the most tangents per minute we've gone on in an episode to date.What tangents you ask? Well:
- We start off pretty strong with revisiting Katie's past as a Harry Potter fanfic writer herself (OH YOU READ THAT RIGHT)
- But then take a detour through sexy/smut fanfic and how Chloe justifies reading it (in fairness, she makes some good -though slightly unexpected - points)
- An impromptu haiku (though it may actually be a senryu on further examination...)
- Chloe starting on Katie for excluding her from key details from her life
- Closely followed by Sarah's way too enthusiastic overview of Cardi B's new song with Megan Thee Stallion (the phrase "Moist Lady Bits" may have appeared more than once)
I mean, they do talk about the book too, to be fair. We've got:
- Cath's relationship with her family and how the girls did or didn't vibe with it
- How much we dig Cath's anti-glow up (big fans of the anti-glow up here at CL4L)
- Whether we buy that Levi is that nice (considering that Saoirse is absolutely that nice, so)
- And Saoirse being unintentionally NOT Chick Lit 4 Life because she was reading arsey literaty books in her spare time (it's an occupational hazard when you read literary fiction for fun, we have to cut her some slack)
All this and an ad for what Katie terms "a sanitary pad you stick to your mask" on this week's Chick Lit 4 Life!
Catch the full episode
More on Fangirl:
Cath is a Simon Snow fan.
Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath it's something more. Fandom is life. It's what got her and her sister, Wren, through losing their mom. It's what kept them close.
And now that she's starting college, introverted Cath isn't sure what's supposed to get her through. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?
And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
More on Rainbow Rowell:
Rainbow Rowell writes all kinds of stuff.
Sometimes she writes about adults (ATTACHMENTS, LANDLINE).
Sometimes she writes about teenagers (ELEANOR & PARK, FANGIRL) .
Sometimes — actually, a lot of the time — she writes about lovesick vampires and guys with dragon wings. (THE SIMON SNOW TRILOGY).
Recently, she’s been writing comics, including her first graphic novel, PUMPKINHEADS, and the monthly RUNAWAYS comic for Marvel.
She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
For more on Rainbow Rowell, visit