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LCB posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’m way behind on posting here, so here we go:
(requisite tagging of @internrachel and @julia1)
Since June 16th…
I read Daniel Deronda by George Eliot on my Kindle, but, according to Goodreads, it’d be, er, 832 pages in non-digital format. I read Middlemarch earlier in the spring, and I la-la-loved it, so DD was a disappointment in…[Read more]
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this is a pretty seriously gay/feminist reading list. i’m into it.
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Marry me, please?
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I read Fun Home (twice) last summer and loved it!
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Aw, thanks, guys. I never took a women’s and gender studies class in college, so I had a lot of catching up to do. Atwood’s next, or is next once I finish this riveting Kaplan GRE Exam Math Workbook.
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (246 pages). I picked it up totally randomly at the library but it was pretty good. It’s about how this 10 year old girl goes missing and the repercussions of that 20 years later–what happened to the man who was accused of kidnapping her and how that affects his sister today, the man who saw her…[Read more]
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Emma posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHello @internrachel and @julia1 !
I’ve just finished reading Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (368 pages). It’s the sequel to the novel Shanghai Girls. It is the story of a Chinese-American girl named Joy as she returns to China during Mao’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950’s.
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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 autoreaders,
I’ve read two more books since my last post! The first was Down River by John Hart, 464 pages. I had some trouble getting into this one and I’m not sure if I would have finished it if I wasn’t reading it on a long plane ride. It’s a fairly standard mystery set-up: guy accused for murder in his teen…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’m so glad this exists, I read this book and I have to tell everyone! It’s called Escape Hatch and it’s by Vladimir Makanin. It has two novellas so I guess I’ll talk about them separately.
The first one, also called Escape Hatch, is 88 pages and is amazing. It’s about a society that has completely broken down; it’s always twilight, people are…[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 FINALLY FINISHED UNDERWORLD. it was 827 pages and it was fucking great. the end.
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoLast night I finished The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (160 pages). I won’t summarise the story as I think it’s pretty well known. I’m still working out what I thought about it – it was funny and imaginative, it was accessible to non-Sci-Fi fans (I like sci-fi but I’m saying this as I know some might be put off by that…[Read more]
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I felt like there was something missing from the Hitchhiker’s Guide too, but I think I accepted it as funny enough to make up for a less character-driven plot. If you want funny not-so-sci-fi with more character development, you should read some Terry Pratchett if you haven’t already. My only complaint about his books is not knowing in which order…[Read more]
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I can see how Douglas Adams probably inspired books like Good Omens. Also there was a hint of Jim Butcher (I’ve only read Storm Front but for some reason it popped to might reading H2G2).
As for Pratchett’s books, I’ve not read many but I did like Masquerade which was a riff on Phantom of the Opera. Do you have any in particular you’d recommend?
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I liked Nightwatch and The Fifth Elephant a lot, and they sort of addressed my problem with Pratchett by being about the same core group of characters. I’ve also read Thief of Time, which was good but at times I struggled to stay interested. I liked Death a lot in Thief of Time and that might be a good way of thinking about it — read the ones tha…[Read more]
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Thanks for the advice, I’ll definitely look into more Pratchett books in future :)
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Speaking of Sam, the books about the City Watch (starting with Guards! Guards! I think) are a pretty good place to start.
So is Monstrous Regiment, if you were ever into the type of books where girls dress up as boys to go into the army or have adventures or whatever and then kick ass.
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Have put Monstrous Regiment on my ‘to read’ list, thanks!
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I loved Hitchiker’s Guide so much when I first read it!
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Are you in the Hitchhiker’s Guide group here on ASS?
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I’m not but I’ll definitely check it out as I carry on with the rest of the trilogy :)
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Lauren posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I’ve just read No Logo by Naomi Klein 446 pages. It’s split into 4 sections: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, No Logo .
No Space is about a lack of non-branded public space, which isn’t a lot more interesting than it sounds so I’ll leave it at that.
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHappy 4th @internrachel and @julia1 ! I finished reading Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell, 383 pgs, yesterday but I was relaxing by a lake with no internet reception. Ugh, I needed a break after reading it, not good at all! The case is definitely not closed; Cornwell went into the book with a suspect and fit…[Read more]
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Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOkay, so I have a lot of books to talk about @internrachel @julia1!
So, first I read an advance reader’s copy of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, 205 pages. It was a YA novel at its most mediocre, and kind of painful to finish. The plot was overused, the prose stilted, and the entire book was just sort of irritating. I did, however, have fun…[Read more]
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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished “Dress you Family in Corduroy and Denim,” a collection of David Sedaris’ essays (257 pgs). I had heard a few his essays before on TAL (Thanks Autostraddle! ), before deciding to pick up one of his books. My favourites were the stories from his childhood, and mostly came from the first half of the book. I read my mom excerpts of…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI had a bit of a spending spree in a charity shop at the weekend and so bought and read ‘All My Friends are Superheroes’ by Andrew Kaufman on Saturday. At 108 pages it is just a wee novella but an absolute joy that I got through in one sitting.
The story is that of Tom and his new wife The Perfectionist (Perf). Tom is a…[Read more]
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Lesley posted an update in the group
Harry Potter Appreciation Society 12 years, 3 months agoI’m still in denial about the end being pretty much nigh in just over a week. GOD. I’ve got tickets for a 9pm showing of Deathly Hallows pt.1 on the 14th and then straight after that it’s the 12:01am showing of pt.2 which I’ll probably just weep quietly throughout before erupting at the end.
HOWEVER, this ‘doom and gloom’ feeling has been a…[Read more]
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