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Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHi @internrachel @julia1!
I’ve read more books! My girlfriend calls it an addiction but I don’t believe her.
Today I read The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff (206 pages), which is one of my summer reading books and was absolutely amazing. I love Tobias Wolff and have read several of the stories in the collection before, but he continues to wow…[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
I just finished Dyke Life: A Celebration of the Lesbian Experience edited by Karla Jay (361 pages). This is a collection of essays by lesbians covering all kinds of different aspects of lesbian life, from conceiving or adopting children to explorations of butch/femme gender coding to caretaking roles taken on by lesbians. I…[Read more]-
The description of this book reminds me of “Persistence: All Things Butch and Femme” which is a collection of essays edited by Ivan Coyote. Anyone who likes “Dyke Life” should totes check it out.
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Yes, I’ve heard of that book! It looks very interesting and I already have it on my Paperback Swap wish list.
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Lauren posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I finished the Great Gatsby and wasn’t best impressed whilst I was reading it, but became kind of fond of it towards the end. I imagine most people here are American and had to read it in high school so I won’t bore you by talking about it.
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Sorry, that first sentence makes little to no sense. What I meant to say was, I didn’t really like the book until it was almost over. I might enjoy it more if I read it again.
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What did you think of Fitzgerald’s writing? What made you initially dislike it? I read it a few months ago and love to talk about it!
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It was difficult to get into at first because I couldn’t really see what it was meant to be about other than the upper classes being ridiculous. Then when I was nearer to the end it seemed it was about Gatsby’s dreams and how he’d tried to make something of himself but failed in almost everything important. It made more sense to me at that point.
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mon posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agohello bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1
i finished reading ‘the portrait of a lady’ by henry james, 637 pages, including an introduction read afterwards. mainly read on the train again. i have realised it may in fact be possible to read too much, i was getting burned out for a while there but once i hit the 2nd half of the book i breezed right…[Read more] -
Rinnie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I keep forgetting to post the books I’ve read, so here’s what I’ve finished since my last post:
“The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales” which is a collection of short stories edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (518 pages). I love the Datlow/Windling story collections (the other ones I have are all retold fairy tales),…[Read more] -
Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Literally just finished reading Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, 472 pgs. It was… lesbisexy. I don’t know what to say about it honestly. I grudgingly enjoyed it, the writing was awkward in places and I feel awkward reading sexy-ish books set in Edwardian England (see also: The Crimson Petal and the White). I just feel…[Read more]
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Eleanor posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoFinally, I read volume one of The History of Sexuality, by Michel Foucault (159 pages). Not gonna lie, I was a little underwhelmed by this. I find this is often the case with people whose analysis has so thoroughly pervaded the critical atmosphere as Foucault–when you go back to the source material, it seems a little stale and obvious. I think he…[Read more]
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Ah, Foucault. Yeah, his writing does seem a little simplistic if you’ve heard all the hype before you actually read him. I think you’ll find when you take your course, though, that the implications of what he says are pretty complex when you follow the lines of thought. He just, y’know, didn’t needlessly complicate things and deliberately try…[Read more]
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Eleanor posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoIn addition, I finished On The Origin of Stories, 414 pages not counting the hundred pages of index &c afterwards, by Brian Boyd. My parents gave me this a bunch of years and I was really unsure about it, because it’s about the evolution of stories. You have to understand, I’ve never been good at narration/story-telling, and prefer my fiction…[Read more]
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Eleanor posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOK, haven’t posted all these books I read, jeez!
I read The Snows of Kilimanjaro by The Dead White Dude, aka Ernest Hemingway. jk. I actually like Hemingway a lot. If you haven’t yet, I seriously ecommend The Garden of Eden for its gender-bending ambisexual fun.At any rate, the best story in The Snows of Kilimanjaro was the first one, in which…[Read more]
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LCB posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoLet me try that again:
Finished A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. 311 pages. Makes Harvard Yard seem waaaaay scarier. Whenever Atwood mentioned Luke, the husband, I couldn’t help but picture Luke from Gilmore Girls, which really wasn’t appropriate.
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Ah, truly a classic. I always felt that book should have been more scary than it actually was, though. I’m not a fan of Atwood’s writing style. I thought the concept was terrifying and in the hands of a better (or at least different) writer, I would have actually felt some emotional impact while reading it. But it’s definitely one I’m glad I…[Read more]
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I love A Handmaid’s Tale! And I did the Gilmore Girls thing…
Have you read any other Atwood?
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoLast night I finished The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard (256 pages). I really liked it–first of all, it was told in first person plural, and I don’t think I’ve read a book like that before. It’s about the lives of this group of boys who go to high school together and how they are affected by the disappearance of their classmate,…[Read more]
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that sounds amazing, i’m going to look for it.
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI read “He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut” and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know by Jessica Valenti (213 pages).
So I was going to read the other ‘Wildwood Dancing’ book, but I moved to a new town recently and I just signed up for a new library card and ended up getting a bunch of books there. I guess I should read…[Read more]
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cyindigo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I listened to it. I was trying to decide if that counts, but it was 18 hours of my life, so i think probably yes? it is apparently 544 pages in paperback (@internrachel, @julia1), according to amazon. I loved listening to this book! i downloaded it from audible, that free thing that they advertise…[Read more]
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHi @internrachel and @julia1! I read Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi (320 pages)…I was a little embarrassed to be in the celebrity memoir section of the library but Portia and Ellen are my favorite vegan lesbian couple and I have experience with disordered eating so I was pretty excited about it. I thought it was really well-done and…[Read more]
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Oops! I forgot one! I also reread 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. It’s a play and it’s only 43 pages, but it’s amazing and postmodern and about depression and mental illness and I absolutely love it. I probably read it at least once every few months.
Ooh, I liked Rant. Invisible Monsters is my all time favorite of Palahniuk’s, although Fight Club is a close second. I found that I didn’t enjoy many of his later novels, until Rant came along. It’s a total mind fuck and I loved the categorizing of people by Day/Night. Very inventive story.