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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoLast week, I read a fascinating biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham. What To Do About Alice focuses on her unconventional childhood and outlook on life, as well as the complicated bond she had with her father. The sometimes strained relationship between Alice and Teddy Roosevelt…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel, @julia1, bookclubbers, greetings
a few days ago i finished ‘a visit from the goon squad’, jennifer egan, 352 pages. i quite enjoyed this though it was quite different from what i expected – as a pulitzer prize winner i expected gripping detail and interwoven stories and strong characters. actually it had all those things but in a…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (457 pages).
It follows a woman named Zarité, who was born a slave to the owner of a sugar plantation in Saint-Domingue (Haiti, back when it was still a French colony). The story doesn’t just focus on her, but on a whole cast of characters whose lives intertwine…[Read more]
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it only took you 14 hours to read 457 pages? Dang girl! Did you read it in one continuous sitting? I wish I had that kind of free time to read :(
On another note I love Isabel Allende and I’ve read almost all her novels, but I hadn’t heard of this one, so thanks! Another book to add to my must read list.-
I’ve always been a fast reader, but I had to become lightning fast in grad school just to survive! My program was really, really heavy on the theory, so that meant unreasonable amounts of reading assignments. But I didn’t read all of that book in one sitting. I read about 100 pages the night before, then the next day I took a short lunch break…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoThis morning I finished Andrew Holleran’s Dancer From The Dance (250 pages). I had mixed feelings about it. Holleran’s writing style tends toward the overblown (overblown in an often lovely way, don’t get me wrong), and I think I just don’t romanticize the experience of gay discos enough to be taken in by his extended riffs…[Read more]
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i’ve been meaning to check out that holleran book because it’s on so many lists of queer classics. another good classic to check out is ‘sexual outlaw’ by john rechy, which is an account of being a hustler in LA. he uses newspaper stuff from that period to talk about police violence against queers. and he’s generally an amazing writer but also…[Read more]
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lots of paramore/funny stuff/witticisms
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI read Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (398 pages) and another one I’d forgotten to write about here, A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (352 pages). I’m trying to read more books from BBC’s Top 100 Books list and a bunch of friends have recommended Good Omens. I haven’t read fantasy-type books in a while and…[Read more]
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I get pretty excited any time anyone says they’re reading Good Omens. I just needed to share that.
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Good Omens! Love Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, separately or together. Reading more of the BBC top 100 sounds like a fun challenge to give yourself. If you want any recommendations as to what to read next, I thought the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy by Philip Pullman was brilliant and a lot of fun.
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I actually have had that trilogy on my shelf for ages, I’ve been meaning to read it for years. One of these days!
A lot of the books on the list that I haven’t read are ones I’ve been meaning to read anyway, so it’ll be fun, even if I never have as much time as I’d like to read.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHey guys!
So, I saw the Harry Potter movie last Saturday, and I decided it would be fun to reread the books! Like, all of them! So I did. (309, 341, 317, 734, 870, 652, and 759 pages, individually, and 3,982 pages total!)
On the whole, it was a really strange experience. I had read the books when I was much younger and…[Read more]
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Aw, I’ve really been wanting to reread Harry Potter! I really hope they’ll come out on Kindle soon
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Jo Rowling is releasing e-books with the launch of her new project “Pottermore” :D
(pottermore.com)
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim (288 pages).
This traced historical attitudes toward menstruation, as well as the products and medical interventions developed to deal with it, mostly from an American perspective, but with occasional dips into ancient history as well. It…[Read more]
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I want to read this book!
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You should, it was fun!
And I forgot to mention they included a lot of pictures of vintage ads relating to menstruation and “hysteria” that were both hilarious and mind boggling.
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