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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just now I finished Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (400 pages). THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME! I literally could not stop reading it. I started it at about 11 am and it’s now 2 am. I didn’t even stop for meals; I ate while I read.
In Transylvania, there are five sisters raning in age from 16 to 5 years old. The book is…[Read more] -
LCB posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoThis weekend I devoured Alice Echols’s Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (239 delightful pages). Echols is both an English and gender studies professor and a former DJ (at this amazing sounding but sadly long-defunct club in Ann Arbor called the Rubaiyat), so she has the requisite scholarly detachment…[Read more]
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Allie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agodear @internrachel and @julia1 and bookstraddlers,
This week I’ve read two fairly short, quick reads. The first was The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, 256 pages, which is about a young woman named Taylor who gets the hell out of her small Kentucky town as soon as she can and finds herself unexpectedly looking after an abandoned toddler who she…[Read more] -
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoOkay, so I have a double-whammy for you, @internrachel, @julia1. I read a book, as well as listened to it.
I downloaded the audiobook of The Alchemist, by Paulo Cuelho a long time ago, when I was on a taking advantage of everything free on iTunes spree. I had never heard the title before and I didn’t really care to look at it. I remember…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished reading Blind Faith by Sagarika Ghose (273 pages). I’m not quite sure what to think of it yet. I definitely wanted to like it more than I actually did, though. Which is not to say I DISliked it, I just…don’t know what to think yet.The story is about an Indian British woman named Mia who is devastated by…[Read more]
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI have a new favorite author: Vendela Vida. She’s fantastic! I love love love her books. I just finished “Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name” (240 pages) and it was so great. I can’t really talk about it at all because I don’t want to give away the plot, but you (everyone) should go read it. I also read Caroll Spinney’s book “The Wisdom of…[Read more]
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoOkay @internrachel, @julia1 I have about 6 books to put on here but I’ll do them one at a time. First on the stack is Dragonsoul, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. This baby is 451 pages long and the third in a series, the first being Havemercy and the second being Shadow Magic. If you like sci-fi, lots of swearwords, fighting, magic, and…[Read more]
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Cait posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just finished reading Fascinating Rhythm: The collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin, by Deena Rosenberg. It was, obviously, a biography about the Gershwin brothers! I loved this book, because while most of the books about Gershwin music focus predominately on Mr. George, this one meshed their two different stories together and how they…[Read more]
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Lesley posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoThis morning I finished Glen Duncan’s ‘The Last Werewolf’ which was recommended to me by someone who is into sometimes terrible novels about vampires and werewolves (i.e – Twilight) so I was apprehensive. Then I realised this was the Glen Duncan who wrote ‘I, Lucifer’ which was brilliant so I got stuck in. Duncan goes far beyond telling a simple…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Today I read Ill Wind by Rachel Caine (337 pages).
I also finished the graphic novel Potential by Ariel Schrag (224 pages, 112 pages in Book Club Pages), which I have been reading off and on for a few weeks now.“Ill Wind” is the first book in the ‘Weather Warden’ urban fantasy series. It’s about a woman named Joanne…[Read more]
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alyssa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel & @julia1 I read Bossypants by Tina Fey (288 pages). It was funny and great and everything else everyone else has already said about it. I also read Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (272 pages). I thought this book was thought provoking but also slightly confusing since the author goes on multiple tangents pretty…[Read more]
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI read The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler (368 pages). It was incredibly interesting and also SO sad, I’m pretty sure I cried at least 3 times. I knew a little about homes for unwed mothers and such but I didn’t really know what massive…[Read more]
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Megan posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago(@internrachel & @julia1) I just finished The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; 447 pages. I have read The Hobbit several times and first read The Fellowship when I was in high school 5 or so years ago. For some reason or another, I got distracted and never finished the series! I found a beautiful box set of Tolkien at the thrift store and just…[Read more]
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Lesley posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoTo everyone and also @internrachel and @julia1
Today I finished Caitlin Moran’s ‘How to be a Woman’ which is part autobiography and part feminist manifesto. Moran describes it as ‘The Female Eunuch re-written from a bar stool with jokes about knickers.’ I think it is gut-bustingly hilarious in places to the point where I couldn’t stifle my…[Read more]
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LCB posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI’m way behind on posting here, so here we go:
(requisite tagging of @internrachel and @julia1)
Since June 16th…
I read Daniel Deronda by George Eliot on my Kindle, but, according to Goodreads, it’d be, er, 832 pages in non-digital format. I read Middlemarch earlier in the spring, and I la-la-loved it, so DD was a disappointment in…[Read more]
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this is a pretty seriously gay/feminist reading list. i’m into it.
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Marry me, please?
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I read Fun Home (twice) last summer and loved it!
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Aw, thanks, guys. I never took a women’s and gender studies class in college, so I had a lot of catching up to do. Atwood’s next, or is next once I finish this riveting Kaplan GRE Exam Math Workbook.
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