a captivating exploration of modern relationships and the blurred boundaries between love, technology, and intimacy. a series of poignant essays delving into the complexities of human connection in the digital age, offering some astute observations and heartfelt reflections.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.

Due to a family passing at the time, I was unable to download this in time before it was archived, and having only returned after several years away due to it severely affecting me, I am now working my way through those reviews I was unable to get to to detail the issue. Thank you for the opportunity, and I look forward to working with you in the future.

At the heart of this book is the idea that fandom is not just a subculture, but a vital part of our cultural landscape. Tiffany convincingly argues that fangirls have been at the forefront of digital innovation and that they have played a key role in shaping the way we interact with each other online. She also demonstrates how fandom has challenged conventional notions of art, culture, language, and identity, and how it has opened up new avenues for creativity and expression. As someone who has been involved in a variety of fandoms since my teenage years, this was particularly relatable. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the internet, popular culture, or the role of young women in shaping our cultural landscape.

This is a succinct and thoroughly entertaining analysis of fan culture, with some captivating and evocative personal essays thrown in. Highly recommend for anyone who participates in internet culture in any way.

Thank you NetGalley for the arc. Usually I'm not a big fan of non-fiction but this was fascinating. I missed the One Direction mania but was still a Tumblr girlie and felt seen in this book. If people didn't understand how incredibly important and vital fandom was to the development of the internet, they will now. The writing was personal in an inviting way that by the end of the first chapter I felt like I had been a One Direction fan.

As a Directioner … you know I had to read this book. This was a compelling study about fandom, society and the ways that time has both changed and stayed the same in fan circles. This book was mainly focused on One Direction rather than a study of all kinds of fans, but I still feel like it worked, especially since the author herself was a part of this group. Highly recommend to anyone interested in reading about subcultures!

I'm glad Everything I Need I Get Fron You wasn't marketed as being almost exclusively about One Direction fandom because I would have missed out on an insightful and fun book. As an elder millennial and early adopter of the internet, I did feel that some of the research stopped short of thoroughness. Aside from that, taking a look at fandom's hold on the internet through the lens of One Direction fans was an enjoyable experience. I learned some things and cringed at some things, which is how it should be. I hope someone (maybe Kaitlyn Tiffany) writes a book someday that's less focused on one particular fandom, and instead uses that fandom as an entrypoint to others. Not all fandoms behave the same way, as Tiffany points out, but it would be a fun project to widen the focus a bit.

I usually don’t read non fiction, but loving the concept of fanatism I decided to give this book a try. I loved it more than I thought it would. I was never a One Direction fan, but have been a part of internet fandoms before, and this book was so interesting and thought me a lot about fan culture and fandoms in general.

Kaitlyn Tiffany’s Everything I Need I Get from You does not quite live up to its subtitle. Still, it was a great read delving into a topic I’ve been keenly interested in for about a year and a half now. It’s more accurately a case study in how the One Direction fandom grew into various online spaces. Tiffany doesn’t really go beyond the case study like I’d hoped to extrapolate broader conclusions about ‘the Internet as we know it’. She does, however, give enough context that someone outside of the fandom like myself can appreciate the experiences of the 1D fandom that she describes. Andbutso if the social internet interests you, I recommend this book.

I love any insight to the influencer lifestyle, online fandoms, and the cultures crafted in small pockets of the internet but was a little disappointed to find this focus solely on one direction. I feel the title needed to do a better job at indicating this sole focus as I was anticipating this to deliver information on many areas were fandoms reside, online. One Direction are a band I like but not really enough to read an entire book dedicated to their online presence.

Such an interesting analysis of internet culture and how it's evolved over the last 2 decades. The undeniable influence of fandom is explored beautifully and the personal aspect to the story is enjoyable.
I did feel like things got a bit repetitive, but overall I really enjoyed this nostalgia-fuelled read.

I think the argument this book makes is best summed up by a quote that appears about halfway through the book, when the author is talking to a Harry Styles fan who got involved in a 2017 effort to boost his streaming numbers for his first solo single, "Sign of the Times."

"'I got involved because I love the DIY attitude,' she told me. 'It's taking things in your own hands as a fandom.' It was even, she ventured, a bit 'punk.'"

EINIGFY is a lyric from a One Direction song and also a way to encapsulate their fandom - through the book, Tiffany explores the way in which these (mostly teen, mostly female) fans created community around a group they adored, for better or for worse. I'm really interested in the way people build these sort of in-groups of shared interests and/or identities online, and Tiffany does a great job in finding the different sub-communities in the 1D fandom and teasing them out.

I also really appreciated her efforts to talk about archiving what's essentially ephemeral culture, and how it was tough to find even things she remembered seeing on the internet five or ten years ago. I think this book could have been strengthened by having a digital version of her footnotes online somewhere - I spent a lot of time painstakingly typing in Tumblr URLs.

At times, Tiffany is perhaps too invested in the story she's telling. She's clearly got opinions on the whole Harry x Louis situation (which I think she's right about) and Harry's song "Woman" off his 2017 eponymous solo album (which I think she's wrong about). Still, this was a really fascinating and validating look at a powerful fandom often written off for seemingly being populated by entirely white teenage girls, the ramifications of ignoring those fandoms, and the way fandom continues to evolve online.

Thank you to NetGalley, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, MCD x FSG Originals, for the e-ARC to read and review. In theory, I'm absolutely the perfect reader for this book. My journalistic career has been centered around covering celebrity news and pop culture, my academic career has been devoted to fandoms (I wrote my Master's portfolio on fangirls bashing the stereotypes), and my personal life is all about following artists I love. I'm a One Direction fan, BTS fan, etc. so I really relate to all of the stories in this book. I have also read the author's journalistic work and very much enjoy their style and insight into fandom. But that's also where it lost me.

On one hand, I would have loved this book when I was writing my Master's work, because it's an excellent source of Internet Fandom, and a modern encyclopedia of social media fandom's inner workings and inside jokes. I wouldn't expect any one book to be thoroughly comprehensive, but I'm also surprised at how focused this book was on 1D while being presented as the Online Fangirl guide overall. (You can't talk Twitter music fandom history without explaining 1D's early dominance there, but it stays there for very long. I'm a fan! I covered 1D news professionally and personally! But this lingers and isn't balanced.) It seems like other bands/artists/social media moments and movements are really only brought in as asides to make the 1D points clearer. I also struggled with the specific way the text had back and forth moments of journalistic interviews with fans, personal anecdotes from the authors, and academic conclusions about social movements overall. I think great storytelling has all these elements, but it's partially one fan's memoir and one fandom's history and also a primer on stan culture for the locals who don't already know the story -- which is a confusing blend for me. I think I would have liked any version from the author- a purely academic read, a personal telling of what fandom did in their own life, or fan interviews that tell the story richly.

I also struggled to define the ideal audience here, once I realized it may not actually be me. I've found that when I write about fandom, it's either from a fan to other fans, or to readers who have no familiarity with fandom. In both cases, there's room to challenge preconceived notions or show uglier sides or come away with unexpected takeaways. I imagine that if you're interested in picking up this book, you have some familiarity with being on stan Twitter or finding your own enthusiastic fandom family online, so broader context can be mixed with those instant emotions. For example, the best bits of this book that brought literal happy tears to my eyes was when modern fandoms who get their faves' music played on the radio or defy traditional media consumption models were described as the new punk. Fans taking their interests into their own hands and choosing how and when they interact with big business' promotional acts is so powerful, and I never thought about it that way even as a bonafide Fangirl Student.

As someone who was present for the birth and death of the One Direction fandom, but wasn't directly a part of it, I loved reading this book. It is hard enough to find literary analysis of pop culture, let alone one that doesn't pass judgment on the teen girls who made up these fandoms. I had such a great time reading this and loved how Kaitlyn analyzed and wrote about fandoms, celebrity, and pop culture in this new age of social media.

I am fascinated by fan culture and even studied it in graduate school. So this book was right up my alley. I'm not a huge One Direction fan but I can appreciate the fan culture around the band. I'm glad to see writers giving credit to teen girls for helping to create the internet as we know it.

Podcast interview with Kaitlyn will go live on August 4, 2022 at www.feministbookclub.com/podcast and all major podcast platforms.

The author's attention to detail and empathic approach to fandoms makes for a compelling and insightful read. As an educator focused on the intersection of culture and communication, the narratives provided here are useful for illustrating the community and power structures inherent in fandoms.

I LOVED this book. It’s insightful, hilarious, and genuinely compassionate toward communities that have historically been dismissed and condescended to. Tiffany’s cultural criticism is BRILLIANT and her prose is delightful. I can’t wait to share this book with my fellow parasocial relationship-building peers!!!

Taking a magnifying glass to fandom and the often infantilised and dismissed presence of women in Fandom, Everything I Need I Get From You was part memoir and part historical analysis.

Using the author's own experience with falling into fandom as a guide to explore what fandom means to women and the space that has been forged on an oftentimes unsafe and unwelcoming internet.

As someone who has been involved with Fandom myself, I loved this. I loved learning about the Beatlemania that swept up a nation and the Geocities fan pages when the internet was still in its infancy.

However if I had known that this book would focus so heavily on One direction I wouldn't have requested this arc.

It's not that I have anything against the band, I just know nothing about them. So when the author was talking about injokes or Key Fandom moments I felt left out and sometimes lost.

I wish this book had been more general and less focused on One Direction. I loved the history of fandom and the generalised information on Fandom and being active in those spaces.

3.5 stars

I was expected this to be more about the internet and pop culture as a whole, but it was more like a fangirl letter to One Direction.

I feel like I got a crash course in everything 1D related by reading this and you know what? I'm not mad about it. Just know that's what you're getting into by reading this.