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Jules posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Ack, I’ve gotten ridiculously behind on book club updates. My friend and I made a giant list of books we have to read before we die, so I’ve been doing that — I read Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (320 pages), which was rhapsodic and beautiful and disturbing and devastating, and made me have visions of F. Scott…[Read more] -
discospider posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (959 pages). If you’re into the Song of Ice and Fire series, you’ve probably been waiting for this book for a ridiculous amount of years. I definitely enjoyed it, but I was a little frustrated by how many of the characters were pretty much in the same place at the…[Read more]-
I’ve been wondering about RR Martin. Also been looking for a new fantasy/sci fi series to pick up. May look into it!
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I tell everyone the first book can be a little tricky to get through if you aren’t willing to sit through a lot of conversation, but I think the series overall is pretty badass.
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My mom started reading this series recently and she is OBSESSED! Is this the last book in the series? I have a bad feeling that if it’s not, Martin may not actually finish the series. Mom would be devastated.
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It’s not the last, there are at least two more expected. He took a looooooooong time to finish this one, and his fans are pretty freaked out about it. People keep saying ‘don’t pull a Robert Jordan on us’ (Robert Jordan died before finishing the Wheel of Time series), and Martin gets annoyed about that cause Jordan was a good friend of his.
I do…[Read more]
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I am so excited to start these!! I have heard so many good things. I first heard of it because I got sucked into the television adaptation of Game of Thrones (mostly because Sean Bean was in it and I mean its Boromir, come on). When I realized they were books, my heart fluttered.
However, I hope I didn’t poison the experience by seeing the show…[Read more]
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I don’t think so, I think the show is really well done, but I think you’ll still totally enjoy the books, and you’ll probably enjoy getting the kind of details that books can present more easily than shows.
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I read An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin (304 pages) in one sitting, due to really bad cramps and not being able to move. I grabbed it because I remembered liking Shopgirl (though the movie didn’t do anything for me–I think because it creeped me out that Steve Martin cast himself) and it happened to be on display…[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 Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier (448 pages).
This is the sequel to ‘Wildwood Dancing’ that I read earlier. In this one, the second youngest sister, Paula, accompanies her merchant father on a business trip to Istanbul. Her father’s secretary falls ill and as a scholar, Paula is the best person to fill…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1 So yesterday I wrote about two books I read in the week, I also finished a third and started on my next.
Finished is Juno and Juliet by Julian Gough (304 pages). This is about twin sisters Juno and Juliet who head from Tipperary to Galway for their first year at university. One of the reasons I got the book was to see how…[Read more]
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Krystle posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI went on a Stieg Larsson binge this week, since my sister wanted to watch all 3 (!!!) movies on Netflix, I figured I’d read the books before I saw the films… yanno… to prepare myself and see what I was in for. So, I read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (590 pgs), “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (630 pgs) and “The…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoMore Shirley Jackson @internrachel and @julia1. This time it was We Have Always Lived in the Castle, 214 pgs. The build-up in the beginning was a little slow (and I’m reading two other books right now so I wasn’t entirely focused) but once I got about 50 pgs in I was totally hooked. I read most of it on the (ridiculous) subway rides I had…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
And the other book I read was Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota (256 pages). This is narrated by Imtiaz, a young British Muslim, born and raised in Sheffield. The novel is told as a series of recollections as Imtiaz (Imz) is preparing himself to die for the beliefs he holds dear as a letter to his estranged wife,…[Read more] -
Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI’ve just got back from holiday so have a couple of booms I want to mention. On Monday morning I finished off Landing by Emma Donoghue which is 336 pages. It is about Jude from a town called Ireland in Canada and Síle, an air hostess who lives in Dublin, Ireland. They meet on a flight that a reluctant Jude takes to…[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 A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution edited by Karen Green and Tristan Taormino (she of the blog post about fisting and censorship in the most recent NSFW Sunday post, incidentally). (200 pages)
This is a big ol’ collection of writings from zines written by and for…[Read more]
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caroline posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI read Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein (the version published back in 1994, not the updated 2010 one) this week – 249 pages. I felt like it might add some breadth to my queer bookshelf, especially given that since I came out I’ve read more lesbian authors than anything else. And of course Kate Bornstein is a lesbian in her…[Read more]
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molllllly posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHello book club, @internrachel @julia1
Recently, I read The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex. Everybody loves a good alien invasion, right? This one doubles as a road trip story, so it’s extra ambitious. A girl, her cat, and an alien named JLo travel across the USA and have wacky adventures. But that’s not all: it’s a fairly smart take on…[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 And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (275 pages). This was a super fast read (I read it in about 4 hours) because it was so totally engrossing. If you can get past the 1939-style casual racism (and to be honest, it would take me out of the story for a moment whenever it came up), I would definitely…[Read more]
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Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 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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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.
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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.
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 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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