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May. 4th, 2021 20:19I finally (after months on the library waiting list) got the audiobook of A Deadly Education by Naomi Novick out of the library. (The Libby app, it's just the easiest way to take out e-materials from local libraries, highly reccomended).
That makes this like, my fourth or fifth or maybe even sixth time reading this book since last September and I honestly think I like it more each time. Not to mention the narrator is just wonderful, imbuing the narration with all the levels of thoughtfulness and emotion that the text hinted towards.
I'm not really a fan of "fanficcy" books, personally. Not that it's a bad thing! Fanficcy books can be really great and, like, I adore fanfiction so I'm not against any of them conceptually. And I FULLY SUPPORT writing and publishing books that make people happy, even if they aren't my jam, ok. This is a personal opinion. But I dunno, maybe it's my strict adherence to the fourth wall, but when a book feels to much like fanfiction, I get kind of uncomfortable with it and tend to avoid it. (Not to mention books that have too much fandom in them. Turtles all the Way Down was basically the most fanfiction/fandom mentions I can get in a mainstream book before I have to nope out.)
Anyway, Novick weirdly nailed the landing on this for me. She incorporates things I actually enjoy that tend to play heavily in fanfiction, like the heavy heavy emphasis on found family and inner emotional turmoil, while still not feeling overly fanficcy to my weird preferences.
It's weird, because I would probably love the fandom for this book in normal times, but I have no interest in finding the fandom on any of the fandom platforms right now. And the sequel got pushed off a few months because of Covid, so I'm just...rereading and rereading and enjoying it every time.
That makes this like, my fourth or fifth or maybe even sixth time reading this book since last September and I honestly think I like it more each time. Not to mention the narrator is just wonderful, imbuing the narration with all the levels of thoughtfulness and emotion that the text hinted towards.
I'm not really a fan of "fanficcy" books, personally. Not that it's a bad thing! Fanficcy books can be really great and, like, I adore fanfiction so I'm not against any of them conceptually. And I FULLY SUPPORT writing and publishing books that make people happy, even if they aren't my jam, ok. This is a personal opinion. But I dunno, maybe it's my strict adherence to the fourth wall, but when a book feels to much like fanfiction, I get kind of uncomfortable with it and tend to avoid it. (Not to mention books that have too much fandom in them. Turtles all the Way Down was basically the most fanfiction/fandom mentions I can get in a mainstream book before I have to nope out.)
Anyway, Novick weirdly nailed the landing on this for me. She incorporates things I actually enjoy that tend to play heavily in fanfiction, like the heavy heavy emphasis on found family and inner emotional turmoil, while still not feeling overly fanficcy to my weird preferences.
It's weird, because I would probably love the fandom for this book in normal times, but I have no interest in finding the fandom on any of the fandom platforms right now. And the sequel got pushed off a few months because of Covid, so I'm just...rereading and rereading and enjoying it every time.
