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AutoGleeks 12 years, 5 months agoWhy do 16 year olds have to choose between love and careers? Doesn’t every single student have to deal with the “what will happen to our relationship post-graduation?!” question? Was I like this in high school? Probably. Gross.
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Harry Potter Appreciation Society 12 years, 5 months agoAny roleplayers?
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AutoGleeks 12 years, 5 months agoIT JUST HIT ME
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO
OH MY GOD, I CAN’T EVEN.
There is no Glee for too long D:
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read fanfiction obsessively?
i mean, what?
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I accidentally stayed up until 4 am the other night/morning reading brittana fanfiction. what the fuck is wrong with me?
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absolutely nothing. you’re in a safe place now.
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The same thing that’s “wrong” with me.
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^^^ THIS ^^^
just all of it
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Toby posted an update in the group
Harry Potter Appreciation Society 12 years, 5 months agoMy friend visited a neighboring town, which is home to my school’s rival school, so we all bag on it a lot, and I told him that he’d better be able to produce a corporeal Patronus.
Then, my friend just scrunches up his face and goes “EXPEEECTTOOOO…PATROOOONUMMMMM”
Seriously, all he needed was some little wireframe glasses and a sharpie to the…[Read more]
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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoJust finished Kathleen Winters’ book Annabel, about an intersex child (Wayne) growing up in rural Labrador, in the 70’s/80’s.
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I just finished it, as well. What did you think of how it ended? I feel like it was a little too unrealistic and short. A college campus being THAT welcoming and accepting of Wayne just doesn’t seem feasible. I’m sure it’d be a safer environment, but I feel like Kathleen would have made a more powerful ending by sticking with how difficult life…[Read more]
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I don’t know…the ending did seem a bit sudden. I was expecting something more, but I’m not quite sure what. I was def hoping for a bit more of a resolution between Wayne and Wally, though.
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Harry Potter Appreciation Society 12 years, 5 months agoNerd Alert: Just finished burning Book 7 (audio) onto CD for my looooong drive across the country to Bonnaroo!
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The UK or the US version? Stephen Fry is my favorite audiobook reader ever (my friend from the UK has been giving me a Harry Potter audiobook every birthday for the last seven years)
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agofinished Zoe Whittall’s Holding Still for As Long as Possible. It was great, easy read – the book was about relationships between a group of 20-something friends, based in the city of Toronto, Ontario.
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Have you read Bottle Rocket Hearts? Better/worse/different? I feel conflicted about (finding/reading) Holding Still, I really hated her first book the first time I read it, but then I read it again and loved it.
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I have read Bottle Rocket Hearts. I know it’s won awards and has a ton of accolades but Holding Still is just a better book. It has a more well-defined plot, the characters are more developed, it’s a less choppy read. I liked it a lot better then Bottle Rocket Hearts – actually, the only thing I liked about that book was that it took place…[Read more]
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I can definitely get behind “less choppy.” I’ll have to check it out!
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I liked holding still… But I think she choked the ending. That kind of made me mad. However, no one is perfect so I have to say that of the lamda awards I have read this year, Whittall’s book was my favorite.
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I didn’t think the ending of Holding Still was too bad. A lot of authors “punt” their endings. I can only think of a handful of books where I thought the ending was well written.
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Actually, I am kinda snotty about the endings as I have many examples of well done endings. I don’t think the excuse that ‘many authors punt their endings’ is good enough for me. What I had a problem with was the whole getting hit by a bus thing. fist, she pulled out into the third person for no apparent reason so that first pulled me out. Second,…[Read more]
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It’s not really an excuse – it’s just reality. People can’t write good endings. I hate it too. It’s even worse with television shows. I think the bus thing was supposed to be an ironic moment – you know, someone who is so neurotic suddenly gets hit by a bus and it’s a life-changing event (blah blah). It was fine in that it at least pulled things…[Read more]
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Off the top of MY head: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, because he earns the dancing bear. Shelley Jackson’s Half Life because sometimes it is what is between the words. Stephen Wright’s Going Native because he has the best last line. ever. Jessica Anthony’s The Convalescent because she makes you believe. Kathrine Dunn’s Geek Love because…[Read more]
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Those are some great endings for sure. Going Native and The Virgin of Flames especially. I’ve only read David Foster Wallace’s arguments and essays I think – i’ll check out more of his stuff.
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Enough dissing on Zoe’s book as I still liked it poopy ending or no. What are your favorite beginings? And you can’t say Moby Dick … or the Bible for that matter.
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This is nerddy as shit but I read that some theorists think that the beginning of Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is a re-writing of the beginning of the Iliad. If you read the book like that, it’s unbelievable.
The intro to Nightwood by Djuna Barnes sucks you right in.
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I am nerdy too. no worries. I did know that about To The Lighthouse. The Odyssey and the Illiad are my favorite books (with good openings) and is yet another reason to love the Woolf. My favorite opening is from Beloved because she starts with numbers so the opening is as jarring as the book. I also Like Joe Meno’s Hairstyles of the Damned because…[Read more]
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Hairstyles of the Damned, jesus .. Haven’t heard that title in a while. Remember Punk Planet? O God, best magazine. I was crushed when they stopped publishing, I grew up with that shit. I bought the book because of a flyer that came in the mag.
I love Mimi’s Dada Catifesto it’s on my bookshelf! I feel like it was written for me instead of kids…[Read more]
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Jealous. I applied for an MFA at the New School so I could work with Shelley Jackson and Stephen Wright. did not get in, but I looked over my old app and realize it was not good enough. So, it was for the best. My friend Lance Olsen got to hang out with her when she came to see his doctoral candidates. Double jealous.
Punk Planet was super…[Read more]
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You are killing me. You know Lance Olsen? We need to book swap.
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You know Lance? No one knows Lance. Do you know Lidia Yuknavitch? She is my ‘mentor’/ drinking buddy/ idol. How the hell do you know lance? No one, I mean no one knows lance. He is, by the way, the nicest man you will ever meet.
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ill hit you up, facebook!!
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Rose posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoI think I am tackling War and Peace next. I’ve noticed that I have the opposite philosophy of everyone else about “summer reading” – for me, it’s “Time to tackle some enormous, deep book I’d never have time to read during the school year!”
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I’m totally the same way. I’ve already finished the last 100 pages of Stranger in a Strange Land, Beloved, and Full Frontal Feminism. Now I’m reading the Count of Monte Cristo and have about 10 other books I want to read this summer.
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Same! Stuff I don’t have time of for the rest of the year, and also because I usually have to prepare for next year (I study English at uni). I have to read a LOT of Shakespeare this summer – I say have to, but I am looking forward to it.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoOkay you guys. I’m between books, and I need a recommendation. Something with lots of feeeeelings. Ready? Go!
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the red tent by Anita Diamant! its full of strong women characters with lots of feelings and adventures. it is one of my favorite books (i’ve read it at least 4 times) and i have lent my copy of it out at least 10 times. you’ll cry. its beautiful.
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Harry Potter Appreciation Society 12 years, 5 months agoemma watson adorableness! http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/4370
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“Magical” OF COURSE! Best answer.
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Well, not if they’re staying in town, which I think Finn had a speech about way back in the pilot about how most of the kids at McKinley do stick around.
But, ugh, I know. I saw so many classmates choose colleges based on friends/boyfriends/girlfriends and now they’re unhappy because it’s not where they belong!