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Dec 09, 2016KateHillier rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I backed this on Kickstarter so, full disclosure there. Also, I did not intend to sit down and read this in one sitting but I did. I feel like I read it a bit too fast (I definitely didn't; I've apparently been sitting here for a while). When I read this again, and I'm sure there will be several repeat readings, I may need to stretch out. One work a day or something. Being a Geek Girl (nerd girl, fangirl, whatever your preferred nomenclature) can be an isolating experience as much as it is a collective one. Until you venture out onto the Internet (in my case, I didn't have the internet in my house until I was 14 and I first stumbled onto the whole fanfiction concept on the library computers when I was 12 or 13) and see that there are others that share your interests. It's not unusual to be the only person you know who has deep feelings about Star Trek, will lecture on how Gandalf is basically a lesser deity, and hopes for an FBI profiler and a homicidal cannibal to run off into the sunset together, or a whole host of other references I could make here. Fandom is how some of us first understand relationships, straight and not so straight, it's how we make friends, how we figure ourselves out, how certain issues are brought to our attention. We wonder if anyone will ever love us and resign ourselves (or become extremely comfortable with) the fact that no one will ever get us or take us seriously because of our intense hobbies. Fandom, especially as practised by girls and women, gets a bad rap and getting a wide variety of experience of female geekdom in many varieties of forms and time periods (Margaret Atwood has COMICS in here) is as interesting as it is affirming. It was a fabulous read. Hit home in many ways for me and I know I'm not the only one.