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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoJust finished “Her Fearful Symmetry” (401 pages) by Audrey Niffenegger. The book is about a pair of identical twins from Chicago who move to England after inheriting their aunt’s London apartment. They meet their upstairs neighbour Martin, a man with severe anxiety and OCD, and their aunt’s former partner, Robert, a cemetery historian who lives…[Read more]
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Laura posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just finished “Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes” (279 pages) by Daniel Everett. It’s an ethnography about the Pirahã, a group of people who live in the Amazon and speak a language with no numbers or colors. There was a ton of interesting stuff but here are two of my favorite things about their language: 1) men speak with one more consonant than…[Read more]
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoyou guys i’m worried i’ll never finish underworld
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the movie? Is that based off a book?
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i finished “white noise” and remember maybe 3-4 lines of it. i really wanted to like it and feel smart and really like, modernist and stuff, but i dunno. it was boring
but there are a few concepts from it i feel like stuck with me for a little while
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update: i finished and liked it a lot lot lot. also though i love baseball so that might be a factor
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blueinthefaceangel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoSo I finished reading Radclyffe book Winds of Fortune(270 pgs), which is part of the Provincetown tales series.Overall I really liked the book, it talked about the other books in the series so you actually knew who all the characters they were talking about were and updating you on events that happened in the other books without actually reading…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoRead More Tales of the City (340 pages) and Further Tales of the City (368 pages) by Armistead Maupin. When I read the first book, it felt a little dated but I kept going back to it over the other book I was reading. I was hoping for something “light” to read before bed, and while these books are super fun to read, they generally have a morbid…[Read more]
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoSo I grabbed The Center Cannot Hold (Elyn Saks, 368 pages) at the library after somebody somewhere an Autostraddle said they enjoyed it. I did not. Since checking it out and starting to read it a few weeks ago, I’ve read three other books. Really, I’m not going to lie, I only finished it because you guys have me on a quest…[Read more]
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Becca posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoAt the beginning of this summer, I felt like I couldn’t really get into anything I was reading, so I decided to go back and re-read something I remembered loving from my childhood. That lead me to “A Great and Terrible Beauty” (432 pgs) , “Rebel Angels” (592 pgs) and “The Sweet Far Thing” (848 pgs), a trilogy by Libba Bray. I was worried that I…[Read more]
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mon posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agogreetings bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1.
i just finishing reading ernest hemingway’s collection of stories, ‘the snows of kilimanjaro’, 137 pages read at my desk and on the train. it was quite good. the 2nd half of the collection mainly concerned one character, nick, and i never know what to think when a character recurs in an otherwise…[Read more] -
Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHey @internrachel @julia1 is it okay to put audiobooks on here? Also, is it okay to do books that are being reread? Would it also be okay for me to listen to an audiobook that I have read on paper before?
Okay. There’s this. I’m on a road trip, you guys, so I’m getting so much reading done because I’m not driving. This is the greatest,…[Read more]
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Have you read Middlesex by Eugenides? I absolutely adore that book.
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Me too! Although I think both of his books are absolutely gorgeous!
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I haven’t, but it’s high on my list as soon as I get my hands on a copy. :)
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audiobooks and rereading are both totally okay as long as you have a pagecount!
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Oh also the pagecount for The Virgin Suicides was 279, I just realized I didn’t put that on there back when I wrote this.
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Diana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just finished reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (and Other Clinical Tales) by Oliver Sacks (243 pgs). This book is absolutely hilarious and it makes me feel a little bit more normal. Not only are the tales funny, but I also learned a lot about various neurological disorders. I strongly recommend this book and…[Read more]-
I love Oliver Sacks so much! One of the stories (I think it’s called The Disembodied Woman?) in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat seriously gave me nightmares though. What a horrifying situation!
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That would be extremely horrifying. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have no control over your own body.
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It’s so weird, because we don’t even think about proprioception, but we’d be totally screwed without it!
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Oliver Sacks is incredible! So glad you like him. I loved Anthropologist on Mars as well :D
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I haven’t read that one yet. I guess I’ll add it to my list. Thanks!
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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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Naimah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 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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her fearful symmetry has been on my reading list since it came out… i really loved time traveler’s wife despite thinking i wouldn’t. i found the concept of it a little too… straight? but i loved the book. i think i’ll keep her fearful symmetry on my to be read list, but it’s good to know i should go in wary instead of thinking it’ll be just…[Read more]
There were things/characters that I liked (esp. the upstairs neighbour). It was good. The reviews were good. But it just wasn’t really my thing, ya know?