Blurb:
In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, 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.
Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.
Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. 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, 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? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
Fangirl karya Rainbow Rowell ini bercerita tentang Cath, si penggemar Simon Snow. Jadi Simon Snow itu semacam Harry Potter kalau di dunia kita.
Cath dan Wren (saudara kembar Cath) ini udah ada di fandom Simon Snow dari
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| cr: Risa Rodil |
Dari dulu juga Cath sama Wren suka bikin fanfiction bareng-bareng di FanFixx.net. Biasanya mereka sering saling ngelihatin dan ngomentarin selagi satu sama lain nulis gitu.
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
Tapi pas mereka mau masuk college, Wren bilang dia mau kenalan sama orang-orang baru. Dia enggak mau sekamar sama Cath, enggak mau duduk di kamar nulis fanfiction Simon Snow lagi, dll. Pokoknya Wren istilahnya ninggalin Cath.
“Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One.
"Your sister doesn't."
When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians."
Pas masuk college, Cath sekamar sama Reagan--cewek yang dari tampangnya udah kayak apa ya... berani gitu. Terus ada Levi. Awalnya Cath kira, Levi ini pacarnya Reagan. Ternyata yah, mereka emang pacaran... dulu.
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| ((ini ganyambung tapi kocak pls wkwk)) |
Cath emang enggak punya banyak temen di real life. Dia enggak kayak Wren yang gampang nyambung sama orang-orang. Tapi jangan salah! Cath punya banyak temen di internet. Dia bahkan terkenal banget gara-gara fanfic Simon Snow-nya yang mendunia!
“There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.”
Makanya, di awal-awal masuk college, Cath memutuskan untuk tenggelam aja sama fanfic-nya. Dia juga kadang nulis bareng Nick--temennya di kelas Fiction-Writing yang pengin saya pites! wkwk
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| ((ini anak ganyelo)) |
Selain itu, ada juga cerita tentang keluarganya Cath. Tentang ayahnya, ibunya, dan yah, pastinya tentang Wren.
Dan tentu aja ada love story-nya HAHAHAHAAH. Udah, tebak aja ya cx saya enggak mau spoiler, karena saya pun baca ini tanpa tahu sama sekali Cath bakal sama siapa wkwk (walaupun kalian kemungkinan besar udah bisa nebak juga sih.. haha).
Jadi, selamat mencari tahu!
Saya SUKA BANGET novel ini! HEHE.
Ceritanya manis gitu menurut saya. Paket lengkap juga! Masalahnya ada mulai dari tentang keluarga, pertemanan, pacar, percaya diri, dan banyaak lagi.
Saya suka karakter Cath karena dia yaah, saya enggak bisa bilang Cath bener-bener mirip saya karena saya belum masuk college dan belum ngerasain kejadian yang persis kayak yang dialami Cath, tapi dalam hal fangirling, sih, iya. Saya ngerti banget gimana perasaan Cath sama fandom Simon Snow. Saya juga ngerti perasaan Cath pas Wren tiba-tiba nge-insult Simon Snow (yah, walaupun dia lagi enggak bener-bener sadar), dan saya juga ngerti gimana rasanya jadi Cath yang terpaksa ansos dan agak canggung gitu sama orang (walaupun saya enggak pernah ngalamin yang persis banget kayak Cath, sih).
“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
Saya juga suka Reagan. Model-modelnya kayak cewek yang cuek dan bukan model yang punya best friend buat diajak curhat atau apalah. Tapi saya suka banget hubungan dia dan Cath!
“I feel sorry for you, and I'm going to be your friend."
"I don't want to be your friend," Cath said as sternly as she could. "I like that we're not friends."
"Me, too. I'm sorry you ruined it by being so pathetic.”
Terus ada LEVI!
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Levi ini bener-bener cowok yang baik, dan saya suka gimana dia ngerti Cath. Saya juga suka banget gimana dia seneng ngedengerin Cath bacain fanfic-nya (ini spoiler bukan sih wkwk. Enggak lah ya lol).
She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.
Terus ada Dad! Saya enggak bisa ngejelasin kenapa tepatnya saya suka sama si Dad. Tapi entahlah, dia itu kadang bikin saya kasihan tapi saya kaget pas dia tiba-tiba tegas ke Wren dan bijak ke Cath. Ah, pokoknya kalau kalian baca, kalian juga pasti suka sama Dad!
“Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?”
“It sets a dangerous precedent.”
“For avoiding pain?”
“For avoiding life.”
Terus tentu aja Wren! Walaupun nyaris setengah (atau lebih?) di buku ini Wren ngeselin, tapi saya enggak pernah kesel sama dia sih. Saya ngerti kenapa dia mau kenal sama orang-orang dan lain-lain--karena emang begitu sifatnya dia. Dia enggak sama kayak Cath.
“So why aren’t you living with your sister?”
“She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said.
“You make it sound like she broke up with you.”
Hmm.. terus ada Nick! Ah, tapi saya males ah bahas dia wkwk. Ntar malah spoiler. Kalian baca sendiri aja ya wkwk.
OH YA, saya suka di awal setiap bab pasti ada cuplikan cerita Simon Snow atau fanfiction yang dibuat Cath atau Cath sama Wren!
Oh ya, soal fanfiction, jadi kan fanfiction Cath yang paling mendunia itu judulnya Carry On, Simon, nah itu yang terus ditulis lengkap sama Rainbow Rowell jadi novel Carry On.
Sekilas buat gambaran aja ya, Carry On ini bercerita tentang Simon yang ada ehem ehem (???) sama Baz. Aslinya kalau di cerita Simon Snow-nya, mereka itu musuhan, tapi di fanfic-nya Cath, mereka itu yaa, seeing each other-lah (gatau pacaran atau enggak). Dan fanfic Cath itulah yang ada di novel Carry On!
Baz. "Have you ever done this before?"
Simon. "Yes. No."
"Yes or no?"
"Yes. Not like this."
Baz. "Not with a boy?"
Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.”
Pokoknya. Saya. Harus. Beli.
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| NGELIAT INI AJA SAYA UDAH TEPAR PLISS ;--; |
Walaupun tentang Simon Snow, ada yang bikin saya agak bingung, sih. Simon Snow kan ceritanya Harry Potter di dunia kita, tapi di dalam novel ini, disebutin Harry Potter juga... Maksud saya, Simon Snow kan terkenal, dan ceritanya tentang anak sebelas tahun yang kemudian masuk sekolah namanya Watford dan yah, banyak kemiripan lainnya dengan Harry Potter (sengaja dan sebenernya ini menyenangkan + lucu kalau kalian tahu Harry Potter). Nah kalau gitu, di mana Harry Potter di dunia mereka? Ngerti kan maksud saya...
Oke, lanjut.
Saya suka Professor Piper! Dia baik banget dan sangat keibuan (?). Saya suka kalau dia udah ngomongin tentang writing-writing gitu (saya merasa ikut termotivasi hahaha).
“The professor leaned forward. “But there’s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.” Her lovely face turned fierce. “Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.”
Terus apa lagi ya...
OH YA! Love story-nya sangat adorable. LUCU ABIS. Dan untung aja semacam 'jadian'-nya enggak di akhir, jadi saya masih bisa menikmati hubungan mereka HEHE. AH SO CUTEE.
“What's that thing you wrote about Simon once, that his eyes followed Baz 'like he was the brightest thing in the room, like he cast everything else into shadow'? That's you. You can't look away from him.”
Terus ya.. saya bingung mau ngomong apa lagi. Soalnya kebanyakan dan saya lupa haha. Intinya: Saya. Suka. Banget.
APALAGI saya dapat yang exclusive collector's edition warna pink--kayak di cover yang di atas. Jadi ada beberapa fanart gituu. Ada fanart Cath sama fanart Simon-Baz. (Saya jadi nge-ship mereka padahal saya belum baca Carry On dan cuma baca cuplikan-cuplikan Simon Snow dari awal setiap bab wkwk).
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| ((bukan saya yang foto, tapi punya saya kayak gitu wkwk) |
Oke, sekarang saya masukin beberapa quotes favorit saya ya. Enggak semuanya karena bakal banyak banget, ini beberapa aja:
“Reading is not lonely.”
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“Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear”
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“In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can’t google.) Like, where does the line start? What food can you take? Where are you supposed to stand, then where are you supposed to sit? Where do you go when you’re done, why is everyone watching you?… Bah.”
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“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
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“And sometimes you held somebody’s hand just to prove that you were still alive, and that another human being was there to testify to that fact.”
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“You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater..and you’ve got some weird thing about Simon Snow."
"I object to every single thing you just said."
Reagan chewed. And frowned. She was wearing dark red lipstick.
"I have lots of friends," Cath said.
"I never see them."
"I just got here. Most of my friends went to other schools. Or they’re online."
"Internet friends don’t count."
"Why not?"
Reagan shrugged disdainfully.
"And I don’t have a weird thing with Simon Snow," Cath said. "I’m just really active in the fandom."
"What the fuck is ‘the fandom’?”
Mungkin segitu dulu aja kali ya.. hehe.
Terakhir, saya kasih 5 dari 5 bintang buat Simon-Baz!
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| PLIS BANGET COVER YANG INI SANGAT INDAHHH ;-; TUNGGU SAYA YA SIMON DAN BAZ! HEHE |
((p.s post pertama di tahun 2017! 1/1/17 hehe. Selamat tahun baru))
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