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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoAaah, I went on a queer young adult fiction spree at the library and started out with Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger (226 pages). The real subject of this book is the whole High School Hierarchy situation – think Mean Girls, but from a gay boy’s perspective. I’m about to go on a reading retreat (aka a trip to the beach) so I should have a…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI can’t believe summer’s almost over @internrachel and @julia1 . This week I read ‘Geek Love’ by Katherine Dunn, 355 pgs, and ‘Nine Stories’ and ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction’ by J.D. Salinger, 198 pgs and 213 pgs respectively. None of these are new books for me but I really enjoy all of them (hence the…[Read more]
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dutchdyke posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
hi again,
i just finished ‘extremely loud and incredibly close’ by jonathan safran foer (326 pages). it was quite intense but in a good way.
heartbreaking and tragic in parts but hopeful and almost fairytale-like in others. a bit fantastic maybe but i liked it, also the style switches are interesting-
If you like Jonathan Safran Foer, I suggest Everything Is Illuminated (assuming you haven’t already read it). I loved that book and reread it frequently.
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reading that now! i found it a bit harder to get into than extremely loud.. i don’t know what it says about me that i find it easier to identify with a 9 year old boy… but i’m only at page 38 so i’ll just keep reading
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin (416 pages).
This is another remaindered book I picked up at the dollar store. I find the most interesting, random books there!
At the dawn of the 20th century, a girl with the completely awesome name of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite is born in Berlin, Germany. Her mother is a…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (349 pages). She’s a contemporary American novelist, and this particular book won her lots of praise & awards (Pulitzer, NY Times, etc!). I’ve read her previous book, Look At Me, and so was pretty excited about this one. It’s structured as a series of chapters told…[Read more] -
Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
When I checked out In A Sunburned Country, I also got The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (480 pages). I should start by saying that I don’t like reading about the victimization of women, and I REALLY don’t like reading explicit descriptions of sexual assault. If you don’t either, I suggest you stay away from this book. I finis…[Read more]-
I thought I was alone in not liking that book (or the movie)! It’s just an awful, awful story. Lisbeth is a good character, but the story she’s stuck in is so disgusting and has no real redeeming value that I could see, I just couldn’t care about her supposed awesomeness. And don’t even get me started about the stupidity that was her sexing up…[Read more]
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exactly! she was into Blomkvist because he made her feel safe? because he didn’t check her out right away or creep her out like most guys in her life? i don’t get it. the best part of Lisbeth Salander is the girl she slept with, Minni (or was it Milli?). And her feminist bar-hopping friends. I appreciated the fact that they called themselves the…[Read more]
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Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel,@julia1
After I read Fried Green Tomatoes I finally got a library card! I was under the impression that one needed a Texas-issued ID to get a library card here, but that’s not true. I just needed a piece of mail addressed to me, and any kind of picture ID. So a couple weeks ago I started checking books out of my local library. One o…[Read more] -
Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel,@julia1
So I recently finished Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, by Fannie Flagg (403 pages). I have so many feelings about this book. My number one feeling is Southern small town love. I can love small towns because I’ve never lived in one, so I feel nostalgic for the small town archetype I’ve created in my head.…[Read more]-
I love Fried Green Tomatoes! Idgie and Ruth’s relationship was so great. I loved when Ruth’s baby was born and people were congratulating Idgie and saying how the baby looked like her :D
The movie is actually pretty good. The lesbian thing isn’t explicitly stated, which is irritating, but it’s completely obvious nonetheless. And Mary Louise…[Read more]
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At first when I read that book I was just waiting for the parts about Idgie and Ruth, but then I really got into Evelyn’s story with the Towanda the Avenger thing. I thought it was interesting in this book how much of a nonissue the lesbian relationship was. It was sweet.
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yes! That was my favorite part too. Ruth and Idgie’s relationship was treated just like anyone else’s. They were never The Lesbians, just the women who ran the café.
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I read it earlier this summer. Like the rest of you, I loved the fact that Idgie and Ruth were clearly in love, and it was a non-issue in the town.
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World by Betsy Block (261 pages).
This is an unusual book for me to read because I don’t have or want kids, but I’m glad I read it anyway. This isn’t really an advice book for parents who want their kids to eat better. It’s a book about a family…[Read more]
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Emma posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I read Girl Walking Backwards, by Bett Williams (264 pages). It was alright, I think it sums up a lot of adolescent angst really well without being too melodramatic. I liked that it ended on a hopeful note. Although I wasn’t really a queer adolescent (instead, a late bloomer), I could relate to the protag’s feelings of…[Read more] -
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just finished Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman (432 pages).
Wow. I knew looting was a huge problem and that during colonialism wholesale ransacking of antiquities was a major activity all over the world, but I had no idea the extent to which museums were, and still are to…[Read more]
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This sounds like an interesting book! It reminds me of when I went to the British museum, and was pretty disgusted, my friends and I decided they should rename it ‘The Museum of British Imperialism: How to Subjugate the World and Take What You Want’ (not as catchy as the ‘British Museum’, but more apt).
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molllllly posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoLast week, I read a totally charming book called Paint by Number: The How-To Crazy that Swept the Nation by William L Bird. As the title implies, this book deals with the cultural significance and history of paint by numbers. Approximately 40% of this book is pictures which makes this reading experience both informative…[Read more]
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Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI love to read Stephen King in the summer. It’s like spooky cotton candy for your brain. Like cotton candy made of spider webs, perhaps. Recently I read Salem’s Lot (439 pages). King wrote Salem’s Lot after Carrie and before The Shining, and I think both of those books are better. Salem’s Lot is about the death of a small town, and about vampire…[Read more]
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I still love ‘The Stand’ with a passion. Speaking of spooky cotton candy for your brain, I’ve been watching that TV show ‘Haven’ on the SciFi Channel. It’s cheesy fun. It was based on King’s book ‘The Colorado Kid.’ Have you read that one? Is it any good?
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Nope, I haven’t read The Colorado Kid. I also haven’t read The Stand. It’s a major hole in my Stephen King appreciation! I know I need to read it because now I’ve received 2 recommendations-you and my housemate both love it (my dad recommends it as well but he doesn’t count).
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Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I read Running With Scissors (302 pages) after A Walk in the Woods. Augusten Burrough’s memoir is funny and a little bit horrifying. I’m not sure where to begin with this book. Burroughs relates his story objectively and in great detail. His tone is never judgemental. It seems he tells readers just the facts and leaves us…[Read more] -
Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I have been reading a lot these past 2-3 weeks, so I’m going to post several reviews today and tomorrow.
Right after I read The Road, I read A Walk in the Woods (274 pages), by Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods was an interesting choice to follow The Road because both books are about journeys, but apart from that they c…[Read more] -
Naimah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I’ve just finished up The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. It was a good read though sometimes a bit hard to grasp with all the french being thrown around and the lack of an actual plot. But besides that I enjoyed it very much - Load More