I listened to the audio version of this narrated by Euan Morton, who is playing King George in Hamilton currently. I really enjoyed it. The night after I finished the book, I was having a tough time falling asleep so I started listening to Carry On again. Now I am addicted to falling asleep to Carry On. I don’t know what this says about me as a person or about the book.
Everybody makes one another’s terrible mistakes
I read this book too fast. I didn’t intend to. I picked it out as my travel book for a week of work and visiting friends in Boston, thinking I’d chip away a little each day. Then I read most of it on the flight out and finished it the next day because I just. couldn’t. help myself. In writing these reviews for #CBR10, I’m beginning to wonder if the amount of detail I retain is inversely proportional to the amount of time it takes […]
*Chef Kiss*
First and foremost I will say that this is the first Rainbow Rowell novel I have read: I know she’s been pretty popular around here the past few years and always meant to pick up one of her books, but just never did for some reason. Until my friend gave me Carry On as a gift, thinking that it looked very Lisa™. And you know what? She was right! I loved this book! I mean, it’s a little corny at times, don’t get me wrong, […]
Scared, Potter?
When some people hear the genre “Young Adult Fiction,” they may assume literary fluff, sugar-coated stories lacking any real substance. Well-written young adult fiction is anything but, and explores themes that are relevant not only to adolescents, but speaks to the general human condition. As such, I’ve decided to delve deeper into the genre starting with one of my favorite authors, Rainbow Rowell. Her books Eleanor and Park and Fangirl are lovely, bittersweet odes to growing up, friendship, love and developing into the person you’re meant to […]
Instead of making me want to read Harry Potter, I’m left wanting the first seven books in this series.
I’ve been holding off on reading this and Kindred Spirits because I don’t want to live in a world without an undiscovered Rainbow Rowell book. I love her writing that much. And it is because of the Cannonball Read that I even know she exists. It’s astounding to me that something as good as Fangirl or Attachments or any number of other great novels could exist at the same time as me, and I wouldn’t just know about them because of some vague, shared cultural […]
500 pages of fan fiction
Ok, this is a controversial opinion to have in these parts of the Internet… but I did not like Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On but I would like to explain myself. 1. The Simon and Baz interludes were the worst parts of the, otherwise amazing, Fangirl. I skipped over half of them. 2. Despite skipping over half the Simon and Baz parts I’m 99% sure the gay thing was an invention of Cath’s fan-fic. So (spoiler?) the romance in Carry On felt like bad fan fiction. […]