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isa posted an update in the group
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Okay. I will make this short because it is the classic “I’m-in-love-with-my-straight-best-friend” scenario. Basically, I am in love with my straight best friend. What the fuck do I do? (I am not out)…(& she has had numerous sexual encounters with girls but I am almost positive that her romantic feelings are strictly for boys).
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Becca posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoAt the beginning of this summer, I felt like I couldn’t really get into anything I was reading, so I decided to go back and re-read something I remembered loving from my childhood. That lead me to “A Great and Terrible Beauty” (432 pgs) , “Rebel Angels” (592 pgs) and “The Sweet Far Thing” (848 pgs), a trilogy by Libba Bray. I was worried that I…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agogreetings bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1.
i just finishing reading ernest hemingway’s collection of stories, ‘the snows of kilimanjaro’, 137 pages read at my desk and on the train. it was quite good. the 2nd half of the collection mainly concerned one character, nick, and i never know what to think when a character recurs in an otherwise…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHey @internrachel @julia1 is it okay to put audiobooks on here? Also, is it okay to do books that are being reread? Would it also be okay for me to listen to an audiobook that I have read on paper before?
Okay. There’s this. I’m on a road trip, you guys, so I’m getting so much reading done because I’m not driving. This is the greatest,…[Read more]
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Have you read Middlesex by Eugenides? I absolutely adore that book.
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Me too! Although I think both of his books are absolutely gorgeous!
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I haven’t, but it’s high on my list as soon as I get my hands on a copy. :)
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audiobooks and rereading are both totally okay as long as you have a pagecount!
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Oh also the pagecount for The Virgin Suicides was 279, I just realized I didn’t put that on there back when I wrote this.
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Diana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just finished reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (and Other Clinical Tales) by Oliver Sacks (243 pgs). This book is absolutely hilarious and it makes me feel a little bit more normal. Not only are the tales funny, but I also learned a lot about various neurological disorders. I strongly recommend this book and…[Read more]-
I love Oliver Sacks so much! One of the stories (I think it’s called The Disembodied Woman?) in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat seriously gave me nightmares though. What a horrifying situation!
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That would be extremely horrifying. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have no control over your own body.
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It’s so weird, because we don’t even think about proprioception, but we’d be totally screwed without it!
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Oliver Sacks is incredible! So glad you like him. I loved Anthropologist on Mars as well :D
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I haven’t read that one yet. I guess I’ll add it to my list. Thanks!
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It eds. Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea (185 pages).
True story: I got this book for free because of this here summer book club. When I posted my review of Fairyland I thought “Dang, that’s a pretty glowing review. I should post it on Powells so maybe…[Read more] -
Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I finished ‘The Heyday of Natural History’ by Lynn Barber, 320 pgs, last night. I vacillated between being completely amused and mildly off-put the entire book. First off it was hard to find this book! It was mentioned in the bibliography of a book I read earlier this summer and I decided I had to read it. But NYPL didn’t…[Read more]
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoSo minutes ago I finished Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim (292 pages). I thought I was prepared, having seen the film a few years ago, but that was not the case. Gregg Araki’s stylized directing and shoegaze soundtrack, while amazing, kind of takes away from the fact that the story being told is about the heartbreaking…[Read more]
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Oh man, this book was the literary equivalent of being punched in the chest. Very well written, totally fucked up, and heartbreaking.
I saw the movie first, too. It really doesn’t prepare you. How fucking awesome was Joseph Gordon Levitt, though? That guy is one fearless actor.
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i saw that movie but i felt like nobody else saw that movie. i’ve always wondered about the book
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I saw the movie as well a few years ago and thought I was the only one, haha. It definitely struck something in me. I never knew it was a book! The movie was hard, so I have to imagine that the book isn’t an easy read. I think I may still give it a go, though.
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i read this book a few years ago. i think i sort of recognized the name before, probably because it was a movie, but this was one of those, i’m sitting in a coffee shop where they have a give and take shelf, i’ll pick up this one because the cover is colorful. So when i got into reading it, i was overwhelmed. I found it to be really genuinely and…[Read more]
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Rie posted an update in the group
Straddler-on-Straddler advice 12 years, 3 months ago
Straddlers: There’s a cool local event involving a lot of semifamous authors getting into performance shenanigans. I’d like to ask a girl I met while volunteering to join me, but I don’t wanna be a creeper. What’s the best way of doing this?
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what kind of contact info do you have for her?
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Only Facebook
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Well it sounds like there’s a low chance of being a creeper here… if you’re on good conversational terms just leave a post on her fb asking if she’d like to join you. If you haven’t really talked I’d message her saying something like “Hey, we haven’t talked much but you seem cool… would you like to go to this with me?”
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I’d try chat if you’re both online, otherwise a PM sounds good. I think the best way to think is what would you do/how would you react in her shoes :)
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Awww, thanks! I sent her a facebook message earlier this week, and she was very kind but had to say no cause she had a friend visiting.
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished Gingerbread Girl by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover. It’s 104 ages but is a graphic novel so in book club rules that’s 52pages @internrachel @julia1
It’s a nice quick read (really, it was delivered this morning and I read it whilst my computer was performing a virus scan…) – but there isn’t much of a story. The lead character i…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just read And Playing the Role of Herself by K. E Lane, a recommendation from Crystal, yesterday. And I read The Giver, as a super middle school throwback
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished reading The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession With Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti (272 pages).
This book lays out a lot of the major players in the virginity business are and the content and character of abstinence-only education in schools, then goes on to show how the purity myth and…[Read more] - Load More
what do you want? Do you want to come out to her? Have a sexual encounter with her? Or try and forget about her?
I think the advice stems on what you want or what you think is even a possibility/how she or others may react.
Maybe you can use your friend status to get a bit more insight into where she’s at in terms of her sexuality? Find out whether she’s romantically attracted to women or not, because if she’s not, there’s sadly not very much you can do to change that.
Oh, honey. I think just about all of us have been there at one time or another. There’s never a really satisfying answer to this predicament. I agree with Cindy and Dizzy both. You should figure out exactly what it is you want from her. It sounds like she might be open to a fling. Would that be worth it? Some people can handle one night…[Read more]