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mazzy posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust finished The Hound of the Baskervilles by ACD — 248 pages. It was brilliant, obvs. Probably my favourite of the Sherlock Holmes stories/novels I’ve read so far. My annotated copy calls it “the only tale … in which the story dominates Holmes rather than Holmes dominating the story.” I wouldn’t say it’s the only one, but Holmes’ actual…[Read more]
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Megan posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago(@internrachel, @julia1). Just finished The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 321 pages. It is the most beautiful book I have read in a long time (and I read A LOT of books)! There is so much going on in this novel that it is incredibly hard to summarize. So! I am going to use someone elses words: “Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden…[Read more]
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cancellous posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finished Book One in the Harry Potter Epic Summer Reread (309 pages). I’ve read this book 3 or 4 times, the last time right before book 7 came out. The thing I thought of most while reading is how many details are left out of the movie. This reminded me why I’ve hated every single movie in the series. They seem to all leave out my favorite…[Read more]
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Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust read Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen (304 pages).
Hoot is a middle-school level novel, but it could appeal to readers of all ages, especially folks interested in Florida or ecoterrorism (I fall into the category of folks interested in the latter!).
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pyrrhic posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoSaul Bellow, “Ravelstein” – 240 pages. Character portrait of Bellow’s bff Allan Bloom, with Bellow and Bloom renamed as Chick and Ravelstein, respectively. The book kind of meanders (no plot – at the opening of the novel Ravelstein has died 6 years before of AIDS, and at the end Chick has his own brush with death, but that is pretty much the sum…[Read more]
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Katelyn posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finished Inga Muscio’s “Cunt: A Delcaration of Independence” (416 pgs) and “Rose: Love in Violent Times” (217 pgs). Wow. Friends had recommended these to me months ago and I brushed them off, but I really wish I’d read them sooner. Cunt is exactly what the title reads; a declaration of independence. Independence from all of the negatives…[Read more]
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Virginia Seymour posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I’ve been pushing my way through my queer library book stack (every lesbian in the county is probably hating my guts right now.) This morning I finished (thank g_d) “Rose of No Man’s Land” by Michelle Tea. After 306 pages I was worn out, sadly not in a satisfied way. My first thought when I started reading was “damn these…[Read more]
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‘Rose of No Man’s Land’ was definitely not my favorite book of hers. I liked ‘Valencia’ much more, especially since it reminded me of a lot of the punks I knew in my teens. But with ‘Rose’ I just kept going “Oh, honey, no” practically every page. She certainly got that kind of instant obsessive bond young girls can form with each other, but…[Read more]
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Arianna posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoIn the past month, I have read more books than in the rest of the year combined. Most of them were YA novels, but good YA novels are a literary step up from fanfiction.
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire & Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
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Diana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished reading The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo (533 pages).
This is such a great book although, at first, it was a bit hard to get into. Once you do get into it though, you won’t put it down. It is a great book to read if you are into psychology. The account of the prison experiment is so…[Read more]-
forgot to mention @internrachel and @julia1
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Dude, I read this way back when in freshman year of high school! I really enjoyed it then but thought it must have been some kind of fever dream because for years I couldn’t find any reference to it. I’ve been meaning to reread it for awhile, the psychology of ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ people is so fascinating!
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bookgrrrl posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’ve been reading two books simultaneously and finished both this weekend, so I’m just going to write about them one at a time.
First, I read Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (636 pages). It was very good! I’ve read two other books by Chabon and this was probs my favorite one of them all. There’s this kind of…[Read more]
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoto @internrachel & @julia1. I have just finished the first Harry Potter book. Very awesome book. I love Dumbledore in the book, but peeves is annoying! About to start reading the second one in a few minutes. :)
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel & @julia1 I am happy to say tat i am enjoying Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. So much that i’m reading pretty slow to get all of the details, only on page 194 of 309. And everyone is right when they say that the book is way better than the movie! i will finish the book tomorrow, that much i know.
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Lisa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’d never read Rubyfruit Jungle (246 pages) by Rita Mae Brown and when I saw it mentioned in an article here I went to my local library and promptly read it in a night. It was kind of a refresher for me on the lack of women’s rights and bigotry in the 60’s. The main character, Molly and her fellow cast gave a face to the oppression of women, which…[Read more]
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Jules posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust finished reading the copy of Haruki Murakami’s new novel After Dark that I found at the library. This books made me feel lots of feelings — not as many feelings as Kafka on the Shore did, but still tingly, creepy feelings, one instance of almost-crying feelings, some chuckles, some rage, and, ultimately, feelings of warmth and love.…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just now I finished a very good book called Bad Girls of Japan eds. Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (240 pages).
I’ve had this in ebook form on my laptop for so long I forget how I got it or why. A few nights ago I was cleaning out some old files and came across it and decided to read it for a bit and I’m glad I did!It’s a…[Read more]
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mon posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agohello again bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1, and other personages.
i am so tired. further to my last missive i have finished reading ‘middlemarch’ by george eliot. 838 pages read chiefly on the train. i would say that this novel has the greatest number of fully realised characters and interwoven family histories that i have ever read. many…[Read more] - Load More