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Virginia Seymour posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoUpon my overly pro-lesbian mother, I read “What It’s Like to Live Now” by Meredith Maran. Through 335 pages, she basically comes to realization and understanding in her life and faces the fact that she can’t control and change everything she’d like to in the world. Despite the sometimes scary accounts of breast cancer, aids, shootings, etc, the…[Read more]
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Liana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Today I finished reading “Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me.” It’s supposed to be a collection of hilarious things that happens when Chelsea lies to people, but not every chapter (especially towards the end) was entertaining. I could tell when a contributor had never really written because they just went on and on about…[Read more]
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Rose posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHey, anyone who is into Russian writers and reading any book by them this summer, join our group! http://www.autostraddle.com/groups/russian-lit-club/
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Brianna Woolever posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoButter face is a short story book about a girl who was born with a facial deformation and has no self confidence and meets a boy at the diner she works at. She ends up falling for her and he is forced to talk her to a dog dinner where they bring ugly dates. She finds out and ends up going but because of it she learns to cope with her insecurities…[Read more]
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Brianna Woolever posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finished reading breakers passion. Just a hot steamy book. I have a think for older women so the whole time while reading breakers passion its like i am reading my own fantasy about a woman who is lost in love while on vacation in Hawaii. This book is just about letting go of everything. Life, work, and the past and just being in the present and…[Read more]
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finished two books this week. ”The Piano Teacher” by Janice Y.K. Lee (326 pages) took place in Hong Kong between 1941 and 1951. The book followed one man and his involvement with two different women- one affair during the war and one affair after. The stories of the two affairs intertwined in a somewhat shocking and very dramatic way. The nov…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel (i almost wrote ubtern, stupid misplaced fingers!) and @julia1, another book down! Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display by Carla Yanni, 199 pgs. This was a totally pleasant, quick read focusing on institutions of natural history built in the UK from 1830-1890’s with a little about modern natural history…[Read more]
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Allie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agodear @internrachel and @julia1 and everybody else who likes books,
I just finished Tina Fey’s Bossypants! It was 275 pages. As expected, it was really funny. I really liked how she talked about sexism–I feel like she was able to be frank and feminist while still sounding relatable. Like, it didn’t sound academic or super political (which…[Read more]
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agodear, @internrachel and @julia1. i’m very disappointed in this book! it’s boring, bland, and takes way too long to set up the scenes. only getting to page 35 1/2. so im orry to say that im immediately halting this story and moving on to one that i know will be AMAZING! Starting right now, i will be reading Harry Potter ( for the first time) I’ve…[Read more]
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Eleanor posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI read The Return of the Native (406 pages) by Thomas Hardy and it was really pretty good. In general I’m a fan of Thomas Hardy. As my mother says, it’s a change from all the metaphors about abusing women/mental illness in the entire rest of English literature (I paraphrase.)
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cyindigo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished reading Ash by Malinda Lo(272 pages). @internrachel @julia1
I’ve been meaning to read it ever since Malinda and the other people on afterellen talked about it before it was published. (before i stopped reading ae because i found a site i liked so much better)
But i really liked it! It was addicting and suspenseful enough that i…[Read more]-
i really liked Ash, too! it was refreshing to read a queer YA book where being queer wasn’t the main conflict. in fact, it wasn’t even a conflict at all. it was just part of life, like DUH THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
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yes! imagine if the world was like that. there should be more books written this way. (if anyone knows of others, i’d love to read them)
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Sarah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” (588 pages)- it was bombin’! I love basically every single thing this man writes, but I was really hesitant to start this book, cause the basic plot line of old gods of America battling new gods didn’t appeal to me at all. I really should have known better, the book was fantastically well-written and…[Read more]
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@internrachel @julia1 Oops, forgot that bit!
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I have been wanting to read this book forever! I may push it further up the list now. :D
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Ooh, I prefered Anansi Boys to American Gods. I just felt AG lost its way somewhere in the middle and though it came back again I was disappointed. In contrast to you I loved the premise and, like you, I loved how he pulled in lots of different mythologies. I’m interested to see what they do with the HBO series though (and I hear Gaiman’s going to…[Read more]
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When I heard there was going to be an HBO series, I started flailing with joy so hard I thought I would take flight.
Now you say there’s supposed to be a 2nd AG book?!? It’s like all my birthdays have come at once!
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Yep, he said it on Twitter, I believe, so it may be one of those take it with a pinch of salt things.
In this MTV interview (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1666281/neil-gaiman-american-gods.jhtml) it seems a bit more speculative but he does talk about a “10th-anniversary edition of “American Gods” will also feature more than 10,000 words…[Read more]
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I freaking adore this book! It’s one of my all time favorites. Sometimes, I’ll get to the end and just flip right back to the beginning again because I’m not ready for it to be over.
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fragola posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1
A couple of days ago I finished reading the book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande, 224 pages. It was really good! Pretty short, too, even though my slow ass took forever to read it. Gawande is a surgeon but also has written for the New Yorker in the past and has other best-selling books…[Read more] - Load More