Discover your library’s next book club pick with our Winter 2018 Book Club Sampler! Available for immediate download on NetGalley, this sampler features excerpts from the following discussion-worthy titles publishing in Winter 2018: THE MITFORD MURDERS by Jessica Fellowes THE RECIPE BOX by Viola Shipman THE ITALIAN PARTY by Christina Lynch DREAMING IN CHOCOLATE by […]
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For Your Consideration: May 2017 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the May 2017 LibraryReads list! Nominations are due March 20! Click here for the full list of 2017 deadlines. BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer One of Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2017 with THREE starred reviews! “VanderMeer, author of the acclaimed Southern Reach trilogy, has made a […]
St. Martin’s First – Spring/Summer 2017 E-Sampler
New Year, new talent! Download debut novel excerpts from the complimentary Spring/Summer 2017 St. Martin’s First Sampler today! With your help, St. Martin’s Press has launched the careers of countless bestselling writers—Jonathan Tropper, Dan Brown, Augusten Burroughs, Louise Penny, and Lev Grossman were all first-time authors that St. Martin’s Press nurtured to publication and were […]
For Your Consideration: January 2017 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite December 2016 AND January 2017 titles for the January 2017* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due November 20! Click here for the full list of 2017 deadlines. THE DRY by Jane Harper * A Library Journal “Summer Promise — Debut Novels” pick * * THREE starred reviews * “Luke lied. You lied. Be […]
For Your Consideration: June 2016 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the June 2016* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due April 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. THE HOUR OF LAND: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams “Williams, an ardent, often rhapsodic, always scrupulous witness to the living world and […]
LibraryReads 2016 Voting Deadlines
We know you’re busy choosing your 2015 LibraryReads “Favorite of Favorites,” but it’s never too early to think about the next monthly list. Here are the 2016 LibraryReads monthly list nomination deadlines: Nominations for January 2016 LibraryReads list titles (this includes December 2015 AND January 2016 titles) are due November 20, 2015 Nominations for February […]
St. Martin’s First – Spring & Fall 2015 E-Samplers
Our friends at St. Martin’s Press have put together two fabulous debut chapter samplers just for you! The samplers are available for direct download on Edelweiss (and each have a corresponding Edelweiss collection) and are Read it Now! titles on NetGalley. Spring/Summer 2015 titles include: EVERYBODY RISE by Stephanie Clifford (an August 2015 LibraryReads pick!) […]
St. Martin’s First – Winter 2015 E-Sampler
Friday Free Day Alert! Our buds at St. Martin’s Press have put together this fabulous debut chapter sampler just for you! SMP has established the careers of countless bestselling authors over the years, and you can find out who is next with St. Martin’s First! The sampler is available for direct download on ISSUU and […]
Friday Reads: Entangled Edition
Happy Friday, friends! Today we’ve got two Entangled Teen titles waiting for you to download over at Net Galley! LOVE AND OTHER UNKNOWN VARIABLES by Shannon Alexander A love story in the vein of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. High school senior Charlie Hanson is a rising physics star bound for MIT when he falls […]
Become a Fan of Fangirl
There are only two types of librarians reading this post right now, FANGIRL fans and librarians who have yet to read FANGIRL. Let's get everyone into the former category.
Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.
Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. Now that they’re going to college, Wren doesn’t want to be roommates so Cath is on her own. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction 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.
For Cath, the question is: is she ready to start living her own life or will she just go on living inside somebody else’s fiction?
Forgot the hashtag -- FANGIRL is big everywhere -- adult GalleyChat, BEA librarians Shout 'n' Share and here #ewyagc
— EarlyWord (@earlyword) June 18, 2013
UPDATE! FOUR STARRED REVIEWS FOR FANGIRL:
"The novel’s brilliance comes from Rowell’s reimagining of a coming-of-age story’s stock characters (the reclusive writer, the tough-talking friend, the sweet potential boyfriend) as dynamic and temperamental individuals—which adroitly parallels Cath’s own fan-fiction writing process. [...] Absolutely captivating." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"A funny and tender coming-of-age story that’s also the story of a writer finding her voice. [...] Touching and utterly real." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The plot is multilayered and filled with complex subjects (such as divorce, abandonment, and mental illness) handled in a realistic manner, and the writing effortlessly and seamlessly weaves these threads together. This book will find a wide audience, especially among older fans of Harry Potter." —School Library Journal (starred review)
"This is an epic writ small; the magic here is cast not with wands but with Rowell's incredible ability to build complex, vivid, troubling, and triumphant relationships. Fans of Eleanor & Park (2013) and other bookish, nerdy types will thrill at finding such a fantastic and lasting description of one of their own." —Booklist (starred review)
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