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Hmm, there seem to be several comments about Book Club being over – I hope it’s not. I don’t really want Book Club to ever end. Anyway I’m going to tell you about the book I finished this morning anyway, it was ’How To Be A Woman’ by Caitlin Moran (313 pages).
Caitlin Moran is a pretty well-known British journalist and…[Read more]

I hope summer isn’t completely over @internrachel and @julia1 because I have some books to report on. Like a bunch, I went on a YA kick the past week and the library has been really good about processing my holds fast. Here is the list: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (288 pgs.), Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (336 pgs.), Before I Fall by…[Read more]

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I just finished Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (336 pages).

This novel was originally written in Icelandic and it’s set in Iceland. A German student at the university in Reykjavik is gruesomely murdered and the family is convinced the police arrested the wrong person, so they send a family employee (who happens to be…[Read more]

Today I finished Mary Ann In Autumn by Armistead Maupin (287 pages) and Crush by Carrie Mac (106 pages). Mary Ann In Autumn goes back to the usual multiple perspectives and morbid storylines of the Tales of the City novels, but it did have Jake befriending a Mormon gay man, which was my favorite of the perspectives in the novel. Crush was sort…[Read more]

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I read two great non-fiction books – “Just Kids” by Patti Smith (304 pages) and “Kosher Nation” by Sue Fishkoff (384 pages) – but I DIDN’T FINISH EITHER OF THEM. I got almost-to-the-end of both of them but then I had to leave and they were library books. I hope they count for something!
Anyways they were both great, Just…[Read more]

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Hello book club. Over the weekend, I finished She Bop II by Lucy O’Brien, a 530 page guide to women in music. You should only read this if you have hours and hours of free time and a comfortable pair of headphones; half the fun is listening to all the bands and singers mentioned. The writing style is accessible and…[Read more]

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I read Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (304 pages) after seeing the film. It is a a fictional story based on a real event that happened in France – when the Gestapo ordered the French police to round up Jewish people in Paris and send them to camps. The story starts with ten-year old Sarah locking up her younger…[Read more]

Just finished The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick (162 pgs).
Cynthia Ozick is one of my favorite authors, but this is the first novel by her I’ve read—she mostly writes shorts stories and essays. Even so, this barely counts as a novel—it’s more of a novella, really.
The book’s about a French Jew, Joseph Brill, who escapes WWII and founds a…[Read more]

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I just finished Willa Cather’s THE SONG OF THE LARK (313 pages). I’ve been reading a lot of Cather, and this kind of slots in as not-my-favourite (My Antonia) but also not-my-least-favourite (Sapphira and the Slave Girl). I read somewhere that she really liked and was initially influenced by James, and in some ways I…[Read more]

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So…recently I read “The Help” by Katheryn Stockett (522 pgs). Mostly I read it because my mom had just read it, and wanted me to read it so we could go see the movie together. It was okay. I enjoyed it. I expected something more, I think.

Also, Intern Grace’s team pick inspired me to re-read Joey Comeau’s “One…[Read more]

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Just a few short days of summer reading left for me. I snuck in another book as I’ve been gearing up for classes.
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How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?, Moustafa Bayoumi (290 pp).
Through a series of engrossing portraits of young Arab-American Muslims, Bayoumi offers an aptly complicated and conflicted answer to the question…[Read more]

Most recent book: The Magus, by John Fowles (656 pags).
This book is very weird and very hard to describe. The narrator of the book is a British guy, Nicholas Urfe, who takes a job teaching English at a private boys school on a remote Greek island. On the island, he meets a very wealthy, strange man name Conchis. Urfe, having heard some vague…[Read more]

I just read Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (304 pages) and Luna by Julie Anne Peters (248 pages). While I’ve read tons of queer literature, I don’t really know about novels about trans people, but here were two Transgender Teen Novels and I obvs love YA lit so here we go. If anyone has any more recommendations, by the way, that would be…[Read more]

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Last week, I read Sister Mischief by Laura Goode. I really wanted to love this book: it’s about girls who love girls who love music. Four girls protest their school administration’s policies through rap. Based on the summary, this should be the best book of the year. But the execution is kind of shallow. Characters…[Read more]

Today I finished Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger (245 pages) and also read The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt (353 pages). I feel like I saw reviews of Love & Lies on AfterEllen or something a long time ago and looked at it in the bookstore, but decided that Marisol was a bit too outgoing for me and I wasn’t ready to…[Read more]