A Book a Day: Carry On

[caitri]

 Every day I'm sharing an image of a book I like. If you've been feeling 1000% done with She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named of late, try some intertextual queer fluff instead. Back in 2013 Rainbow Rowell published Fangirl, a novel about a... fangirl... who was writing not!HarryPotter fic. A few years later Rowell has released 2/3 of a trilogy playing off of the in-universe fic she created, in which magical British boarding school kids have to save the world and also get to be gay. (You know, like The Magicians, but with 100% less rape!) In a superior timeline I'd be writing an essay about the queerness of the vampire au and how it's meaningful that not!DracoMalfoy is textually queer and it would be lovely. Instead I invite you all to appreciate with me the layers of textual meaning and transference inherent in these volumes, especially when the first is titled "Carry On" and the second is titled "Wayward Son" because fandom.





Also I'm sharing the British cover art which is infinitely superior to the American cover art, so there.