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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI love Nalo Hopkinson! She’s a scifi writer whose stories are based in Caribbean culture, which is an element I really haven’t seen incorporated into scifi before. I read her first book ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’ and was really excited about it. So I went out and found another of her books, ‘Midnight Robber,’ and I just started it today. So…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoReaders! Get over to the book club post and comment, dammit! Rachel is sad. :)
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m about to start The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman. History! Science! Archaeology!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just finished reading the short story “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison. I very much enjoyed it and you might too! Just as a warning, I’d heard it was incredibly unsettling, but I wasn’t really bothered until the last few paragraphs, at which point I kind of freaked. Still totally worth it though.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoMay I just say: “Sometimes She Let’s Me”, the anthology in the NSFW post this week. DOES NOT SUCK ASS, except in the literal sense… As a general rule people act like writing erotica means you can just be ridiculous and sloppy, but this ones pretty good so far. Mind you I’m not THAT far in…
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Seattlestraddle 12 years, 5 months agoAnybody here going to SlutWalk Seattle? I hear the Westboro Baptist Church is gonna show up :/
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I’m planning to go. I hadn’t heard about Westboro being there, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
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Did I miss it already?? I’d LOVE to go!
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It’s June 19th
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142324145837036
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoHas anyone read the Room by Emma Donogue. I just started reading it after it having great reviews but it seems a little slow and sad, not sure whether to continue. Any recommendations here?
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I haven’t read it, but several people on a message board I go to called Snarkfest read it and were raving over it. These particular people have pretty good taste I think, so I wanted to give it a go. Apparently, a few of them felt it lagged a bit in the beginning as well, so maybe it picks up?
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Please continue. It’s such a good read. A bit depressing at some parts yet uplifting at the same time. You won’t regret reading it :)
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Strongly agree with @Zulu, with the caveat that we can’t know what may be particularly unsettling/press buttons for you… so stop if you are feeling that you need to stop… but I genuinely LOVED this book. Donoghue works her way pretty thoroughly through the possibilities of the situation, so there’s some intensity, but she does it with real…[Read more]
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I’m half way through at the moment on your advice, I think I will have to keep reading. I just find myself so haunted by it that I have trouble sleeping (though to be honest I read it just before bed). However I wake up in the morning grateful I’m not in that situation.
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I think I need to read these all. (Assuming I can even find them here in the Antipodes :P)
If you can find them, you should definitely give them a try! Now that I’m thinking about it, I vaguely recall reading and liking another one of her books several years ago. It was called something like “The Salt Roads” or maybe just “Salt Roads” and it had time travel. So she’s got something for any scifi preference!
I read Brown Girl in the Ring! I’d forgotten it, I ‘m going to have to find some other stuff by her, because it was an AWESOME book.