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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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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] -
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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!).
The good: earnest children acting more responsibly than the adults in their lives, a loveable, bumbling…[Read more] -
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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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