A review by lucymh
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

First non-fiction book I have read this year, as a part of a resolution to read more non-fiction/lit-j. I think this was a pretty light and easy one to start with, so would recommend to someone just getting into nonfiction, or anyone who likes social histories about early internet/social media. I really enjoyed this book, as sort of a defense of fangirls. I read some reviews saying that it was too close to a retelling of one direction fan’s antics in the early 2010’s. Maybe because I was never a part of that fandom, I did not get that impression. Furthermore, I think it makes a lot of sense to look at fangirls and fan culture from this angle, because 1D fans received the criticism fans of Frank Sinatra or the Beatles got decades earlier BUT got to experience and build communities on social media, back when it was a new and fresh thing. I liked the authors personal connection, but I wish there was a larger focus on fan interviews. 
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