Reading Blog Post 12 - About the Author

So I feel like lately I have just been dragging on and on about the book. Not in a bad way, but that may get a little boring for some readers so this week I'm going to give you all a little background information and also give some information about the author's view of the story.

First I'm going to start with a Q&A session on publishersweekly.com (I will link the exact page at the very bottom of my post if anybody wants to read the whole thing for themselves.) One question on this question and answer interview that was also a burning question in my mind is: "Emotions run high in this novel. Is it realistic?" And i really can't say that Rainbow could have answered the question any better. She replies with: "I feel like it’s realistic. I feel things very intensely. And I also think that real life is more romantic if you allow it to be, if you don’t act like it’s immature to get excited. I want to consume love stories, but 90% of them feel totally inauthentic. When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they’re selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love." I absolutely love that she says that she doesn't act like it's immature to get excited because with this book that's exactly how I feel writing it down for you guys. I feel extremely immature talking about it, but when I read it, it's really quite authentic, so I really like how she includes that you shouldn't think it's immature because it is real. 

Now about that name that the author has. Rainbow Rowell. Most people think that she's picked it for herself, when in reality she's found it more of an obstacle than anything. She says that in her early stages she was a columnist for a newspaper and it was a real struggle for her to be taken seriously, especially when she started writing fiction, people thought it was childlike. Now she thinks of it more as a statement for herself. It's definitely a statement name.

Here's the link: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/55711-q-a-with-rainbow-rowell.html