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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’m finally done with The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (336 pages). It’s been my “take to work and read on the Metro” book, which is in retrospect a questionable choice because it is pretty awkward to read on the Metro sitting next to someone. In the story, the protagonist says about a book, “I resented its professional neatness…[Read more]
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hannah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finally read Room by Emma Donoghue (321 pages). I know I am late to the party on this one, but wow. It was so creepy and horrifying and I literally could not put it down. I don’t want to say too much about the plot, because knowing very little/discovering it along with Jack was really effective for me, but I have a lot of feelings.
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i’ve been thinking about reading this for a while, for some reason i feel like it’s gonna make me feel insane but compelled like the lovely bones
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I’ve only read a few Emma Donoghue books but I love the way her style is so varied and she’s not afraid to take risks – for example The Sealed Letter is so different in style and tone to Room but both are ytterly fantastic.
@riese I read ‘The Lovely Bones’ and wasn’t blown away by it – everyone I speak to is shocked by this because it was so…[Read more]
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OMGOSH yay! I just picked up this book on a whim (ok, a cute girl recommended it to me), and I couldn’t put it down after the first 30 pages (good sign). Glad I bought it….it will soon be devoured.
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That said… I’m disturbed by what I’ve read so far, and I definitely need to find a day that probably involves cupcakes and unicorns to go through it.
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YES to all of this. I was INTENSELY creeped out by this book and I kind of wish I could stop thinking about it. Of course, it was brilliantly written. Does anyone else feel like Emma Donoghue has kind of a dark streak? I just finished “Slammerkin” and lord but that one went from bad to worse (for the characters, that is, not the prose). I like her…[Read more]
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I just bought Donoghue’s ‘Landing’ which, according to the blurb, is a romantic comedy so I am intrigued to see how that works out after reading Room, The Sealed Letter and The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits!
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoA couple days ago I finished “The Lovers” by Vendela Vida (240 pages). Vida is a really fantastic author, this is the second book of hers that I’ve read. This book was about a woman who travels to Turkey (where she honeymooned 25 years ago) after her husband dies. The book tells of her journey, both emotionally and physically, to relive and…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished “Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll” by Ellen Willis (317 pages). I got it after Kathleen Hanna mentioned another collection of Willis’ writings, “Out of the Vinyl Deeps,” which was just released. Willis was a journalist and essayist who wrote about music, politics, and culture from a feminist perspective from the 1960s through her…[Read more]
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My apologies for the 5,000 uses of the word “particularly.” I need more caffeine today.
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this sounds really interesting!!
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i love feminism+jewish stuff, this sounds great!
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@riese @internrachel Apparently, a ton of Ellen Willis’ writing is available to read online, including “Next Year in Jerusalem,” via the genuinely impressive http://ellenwillis.tumblr.com/
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Freddie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust finished “The Forgotten Garden” by Kate Morton (552 pages). Really enjoyed it :) It’s about a woman who tries to uncover the secret of her grandmother’s past after her grandmother dies, and the book jumps between her story (in 2005), her grandmother’s story (mostly around 1975), and the early 1900s, as well as having some fairy-tales…[Read more]
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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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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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]
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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?
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Laura posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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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How long have you had your tumblr? I’ve been on since Oct 2008! :)
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Becca posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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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Well, this sounds terribly disappointing. For a book the dares to call itself ‘The Swimming-Pool Library’ I’d expect something much more delightfully Doctor Who-ish (sixth bullet down).