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fragola posted an update in the group
Autostraddle: A Place for Your Feelings About Autostraddle 12 years, 2 months ago@riese : Feedback on the new “Like or Dislike” addition. This kind of bothers me but lots of other people seem to like them so I think it’s fine. I’m sure I will adjust and become used to it. There is ONE THING, though, that I don’t like. I don’t like that if a comment receives a certain number of “thumbs down” it is hidden. People generally…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI have, after a long emotional read, completed Possession by A. S. Byatt (555 pages). It’s about people who study Victorian poets (which is great because I like history/literature/academia), and the love letters they discover were written, and a race to find out what happened. I started out LOVING it, then I kept getting mad at it because it…[Read more]
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Katelyn posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI finished this a little while ago, but this summer I read Sue Hubbell’s “A Book of Bees” (177 pgs). It was given to me by a professor as a graduation gift in May and I absolutely loved it.
I’m a beekeeper on an organic farm and Hubbell’s book is definitely among the best honey bee books that I’ve read. She writes about maintaining 300+ colonies…[Read more]
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CatD posted an update in the group
Music Addicts Annonymous 12 years, 2 months agoAnyone else into The Antlers ‘Burst Apart’? That and the new Bon Iver are putting me in a glorious melancholy.
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The Bon Iver is pretty good. I absolutely adore the song Holocene. and Perth. Actually the whole album.
I’ve been meaning to check out The Antlers and have heard maybe one song off that album, but so far so good!
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I would definitely recommend The Antlers. I’m in love with Putting the Dog to Sleep and I Don’t Want Love. And French Exit. Definitely French Exit.
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Listened to The Antlers’ newest album it’s pretty good. I Don’t Want Love is my shower song. I also love Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out.
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I love the whole thing but my favorite is Rolled Together. And totes agreed on Holocene
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(re: Rolled Together, the plaintive moan at 2:09 when everything coalesces just killllllllls me)
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I love that part as well.
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Ah just fell in love with The Antlers thanks to this thread.
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You Antler’s fans MIGHT like this band called Acrylics. You could just DL their only album, Lives and Treasures…. or just listen to Nightwatch and Asian Pear (both definitely, as they have different singers)
But they’re not LIKE the Antlers they just kinda come to mind.
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I’m officially in love with this band! THANK YOU!
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I’m so glad! Sometimes I feel like one of their PR people because I keep going on about how brilliant they are.
They are brilliant, though.
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Arls posted an update in the group
DealStraddlers 12 years, 2 months ago
Joss Stone’s new album “LP1” is $3.99 today on Amazon.
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Arls posted an update in the group
DealStraddlers 12 years, 2 months ago
Amazon is having The Big Deal sale (home page) with over 900 books $3.99 or less (navigable list sorted by bestselling).
Here’s a link to their Editor’s Choice list from the sale books.
Sale is through July 27, 2011.
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dutchdyke posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I finished Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 415 pages. I had been meaning to read it for ages, really glad I finally got to it. It reminded me much of Kafka and Orwell (one of my favorite writers) and also of the craziness of war as depicted in Slaughterhouse Five, and yeah it was a great read.
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I really like Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse 5. I don’t think Closing Time is meant to be all that great, but Something Happened is meant to be very good and some people think it’s even better than Catch 22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/19/famous-wrong-book-vonnegut-waugh-ishiguro
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Thanks, adding that to my wish list :)
I have Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut) here, haven’t read it yet.
I’m trying to find a balance between reading as many ‘important’ writers as possible, and reading more from the ones I really liked, not just the classics..
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Catch-22 is one of my absolute favorite books of all time. Weirdly enough, I still haven’t read Something Happened, but it’s definitely on my list.
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Yeah I loved Catch-22. Other favorites include Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), For whom the bell tolls (Hemingway) and Slaughterhouse-five (Vonnegut). There seems to be a theme here.. Although my all-time absolute favorite is On the road (Kerouac). Oh I love that book so much.
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Hi, I’ve been moving recently and got to my new flat to find a lovely gift from my penpal. It was Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock. It’s only 48 pages (I know this only counts as 24 because it’s a graphic novel) but I wanted to mention it because it’s wonderful and beautiful and creepy. It did take you away into Griffin…[Read more] -
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi (305 pages), even though I damn well know better than to read triggering books like this when I’m really stressed out and having anxiety attacks like I was today. Brilliant move, self.
I think the fact that this book was so damn triggering is…[Read more]
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Carmen SanDiego posted an update in the group
Autostraddle: A Place for Your Feelings About Autostraddle 12 years, 2 months agoI want to gay-marry Autostraddle but my state won’t allow it.
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Emma posted an update in the group
Autostraddle: A Place for Your Feelings About Autostraddle 12 years, 2 months agoMy number #1 feeling about Autostraddle is that I want to bake it some cupcakes because I love it so much.
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thanks for the feedback! we’re just sort of experimenting right now — earlier I changed it so that there’s no like/dislike words, and the buttons look different, and only logged-in users can vote.
I’m hoping without the prompt that people will be more cautious about x-ing something, also having that limited to logged-in users. I don’t want…[Read more]
I like it a lot better now! I didn’t like the other format because it just seemed so distracting. I like these buttons a lot better. Also, I was having issues before with seeing comments that had been “hidden” because even when I displayed them the font was so white I couldn’t read it. I agree that only users should be able to vote –and maybe…[Read more]