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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel, @julia1
I just finished Willa Cather’s THE SONG OF THE LARK (313 pages). I’ve been reading a lot of Cather, and this kind of slots in as not-my-favourite (My Antonia) but also not-my-least-favourite (Sapphira and the Slave Girl). I read somewhere that she really liked and was initially influenced by James, and in some ways I thought…[Read more] -
Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoAlll right here we go, lots of reading accumulated from hurricane/power outage/computer not working so I couldn’t post. Read a bunch of new books: She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of Nonbiological Lesbian Motherhood by Amie Klempnauer Miller (236 pages), My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman (232 pages), Wide Awake by David Levithan (221 pages),…[Read more]
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I remember LOVING The Crimson Petal and the White when I read it–but that was 8 or so years ago. Maybe I should reread it, too!
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I forgot quite how long it was… I’ve posted about this book here, but have you read The Apple? It’s a book of short stories about the characters from The Crimson Petal and the White. (Not the same as a nice long novel like Crimson Petal was, but there was no way I could resist more of those characters anyway.)
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I haven’t even heard of The Apple! The Crimson Petal and the White is actually the only Michel Faber book I’ve read, though I guess he’s written a lot. I’ll see if I can get my hands on The Apple…
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Darcy posted an update in the group
Ohio is for AutoStraddlers 12 years, 1 month agoOhio is amazing. Anyone in NE Ohio? Specifically Canton/Akron area, or Tusc County (now THAT’s a love/hate relationship for you)
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoSo I’m all caught up in the reading fever and I am wondering… if the Book Club Situation technically *ends* on the 31st (tomorrow), does that mean we can still post books tomorrow that will be considered or must they be posted *before* the 31st? I’m going to post all the things I’ve been reading lately before I go to bed but I’m sure I’d have…[Read more]
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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoSo…recently I read “The Help” by Katheryn Stockett (522 pgs). Mostly I read it because my mom had just read it, and wanted me to read it so we could go see the movie together. It was okay. I enjoyed it. I expected something more, I think.
Also, Intern Grace’s team pick inspired me to re-read Joey Comeau’s “One Bloody…[Read more]
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Carmen SanDiego posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Sports Club 12 years, 1 month agoThe Western New York Flash beat the Philadelphia Independence in a penalty shootout to win the WPS title in their first season on Saturday. Christine Sinclair gave the Flash a 1-0 lead that was nearly enough to win it in 90 minutes, but Amy Rodriguez equalized in the 87th minute to extra time and then penalties, which the Flash won 5-4.
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so sad i needed a cranberry vodka. why the f didn’t a-rod take the shot!?!?!?!?!? it was so damn perfect and she decided to wait for…..no one!!!! ): make that two crnbry vodkas
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and the squirrel?! what the hell!
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ikr wtf really guys, it’s going to take like 7 minutes to get a cute ass squirrel out of the field……i donno if i were barnie i totally would have picked it up or at least try to shoe it away.
talking about barnie, i cannot believe she missed those two pks…….i totally think her injury (by the way do you know how that happened) got to her.…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoYesterday I finished A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (288 pages).
Someone else in this here club read this book and I thought it sounded interesting. And it was! I love stories that weave together, where the main character in one storyline is a minor player in another, and that was what this book was all…[Read more]
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I loved that book.
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was that maybe me? glad you enjoyed it too! maybe I should check out Valente?
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You should definitely check out Valente! The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden and The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (which are really just one big story broken up into two volumes) are masterpieces of the interweaving storyline thing. So, so good.
Her Prester John books also use that storytelling convention, but since only…[Read more]
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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel @julia1
Just a few short days of summer reading left for me. I snuck in another book as I’ve been gearing up for classes.
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How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?, Moustafa Bayoumi (290 pp).
Through a series of engrossing portraits of young Arab-American Muslims, Bayoumi offers an aptly complicated and conflicted answer to the question…[Read more] -
Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoMost recent book: The Magus, by John Fowles (656 pags).
This book is very weird and very hard to describe. The narrator of the book is a British guy, Nicholas Urfe, who takes a job teaching English at a private boys school on a remote Greek island. On the island, he meets a very wealthy, strange man name Conchis. Urfe, having heard some vague…[Read more] -
Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI just read Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (304 pages) and Luna by Julie Anne Peters (248 pages). While I’ve read tons of queer literature, I don’t really know about novels about trans people, but here were two Transgender Teen Novels and I obvs love YA lit so here we go. If anyone has any more recommendations, by the way, that would be awesome.…[Read more]
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Krissy posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI never thought it would happen to me, but it did: I converted to veganism. The books that convinced me to do it were Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr and Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life by Brendan Brazier. Everyone ever should read these books.
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Lina posted an update in the group
Ohio is for AutoStraddlers 12 years, 1 month agoI just attempted to find fellow Cincinnati-area people and send them random messages, and I’ve since realized that this is probably a much better way to go about things. I’ve been here for about 15 months and still have…maybe two friends? I don’t think I’m scary… :p
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI have read several book lately but have not had time/energy to write about them. And now it feels like it’s looming over me, this is exactly what I used to do in school. It’s like I’ve given myself homework.
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molllllly posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoLast week, I read Sister Mischief by Laura Goode. I really wanted to love this book: it’s about girls who love girls who love music. Four girls protest their school administration’s policies through rap. Based on the summary, this should be the best book of the year. But the execution is kind of shallow. Characters are…[Read more]
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