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caroline posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@julia1 @internrachel Oh hey, nonfiction. I remember you. It took me like three weeks to get through “Broke, U.S.A” by Gary Rivlin (358 pages) but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t really good. It does mean, however, that stories about payday lending and subprime mortgages are not prime reading material for a morning commute that takes place…[Read more]
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Ellen posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHoly crap you guys I finally finished a book this summer! It was The Sound and Fury (401 pgs). It centers around the dilapidating Compson family, and is set up in four sections. The first is narrated by Benjy, the oldest son in the family, who has some unspecified mental handicap. The second is narrated by Quentin, the middle son, who was the…[Read more]
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oh hey i was about to go read that book (so i didn’t read your full post because of potential spoilers) but i gather it’s an interesting/great but tough read?
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Yeah, I would say that describes it pretty well. Definitely interesting. Intermittently tough. The parts that are straightforward in style actually aren’t that dense either, so they’re pretty easy to read.
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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoFinished “A Fine Balance” by Rohinton Mistry. It was a long one (728pgs). It takes place in India during “the Emergency” of the mid 70’s, and follows four people, widow Dina Dalal, college student Maneck, and Tailors Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakesh, whose lives intersect. The first 1/3 of the book, at least was spent going into the…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoallonz-y @internrachel and @julia1 ! This week I read ‘The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station’ by Lorraine Diehl (168 pgs) and Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (233 pgs). The LG Penn Station was good but information-light for what I was hoping. The general tone is fawning which is understandable considering the cult that has arisen around the…[Read more]
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Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI have a bunch of books I want to talk about (also somehow like fifteen times as many that I still need to read, I don’t know, borders closeout sales are evil).
I reread this book I remembered really liking as a kid, Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (175 pages)–I happened upon it in a bookstore and it sounded…[Read more]
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Oh, and Oblivion was 329 pages @internrachel @julia01
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday, I finished Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin (277 pages) and The Apply by Michel Faber (199 pages). Michael Tolliver Lives is my favorite novel out of all the Tales of the City-related books. This one is a bit different- it takes place so long after the other books, it’s in first-person from Michael’s point of view. It seemed…[Read more]
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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I am book bingeing and it is delicious.GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, ed. Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, & Clare Howell (297 pp).
This is a pile of essays about gender angst, gender joy, and gender fucking. Also sometimes just fucking. Nestle promises us in the introduction that this anthology will point…[Read more] -
jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel & @julia1
Moar books. A while ago now, I finished SlaughterHouse Five (176). I guess a lot of people have read it, but for anyone who hasn’t/is interested, this is about Billy Pilgrim, a man who was a POW in WWII and also a time-traveller, unable to control his coming unstuck in time. I like the way the narrative jumps around in t…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus #3 (302 pages, 151 in Book Club Pages). Volume #2 was already checked out from the library, so I just skipped to the next one.
Because these comics were collected and reprinted in the order in which the stories take place in-‘verse rather than chronological publishing order,…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus #1 (312 pages, so 156 in Book Club Pages).
This is the first volume in the complete collection of the Buffy comics that they had going while the show was still airing. I love Buffy and I love comics, so I don’t know why I haven’t read these before. They were having a used book…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just read Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (262 pages) over the past couple days. Possible spoiler alert: I feel like the characters were generally a little different here – Michael less into Gay Politics (compared to his lover), Mary Ann more selfish, D’orothea… since when does she want/need to open a restaurant? Also… was this really going…[Read more]
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Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I’m probably the last person on Autostraddle to read Eileen Myles’ Inferno (271 pgs), so I won’t bother going in to the details of what the book’s about.
I probably should have been tipped off by the subtitle (“A Poet’s Novel”) that this wasn’t going to be an ordinary book, but I guess I wasn’t paying attention, because I…[Read more]-
“Then I read the section of the book where she talks about how stupid it is that people want poems to ”make sense,” and I felt stupid for wanting her book to make more sense.”
Ooh, I don’t think I should read this book then. I think I be frustrated and confused by this book too. And then I would get mad when I got to that part you men…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI finished Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier (544 pages).
I was going to read the final Vampire Diaries book, but my mom gave me this yesterday because she knows how much I like Marillier’s books. This one is about Eyvind, a young viking man from Norway, who grew up with and became blood brothers with a strange boy named…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI actually got around to reading Valencia by Michelle Tea (202 pages)! I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time but no library around me had it so I finally just bought it. I have to say that I don’t really like informal writing or stories that involve lots of drugs. I know. It’s just not for me. It is a memoir and not idealized or…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI actually got around to reading Valencia by Michelle Tea (202 pages)! I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time but no library around me had it so I finally just bought it. I have to say that I don’t really like informal writing or stories that involve lots of drugs. I know. It’s just not for me. It is a memoir and not idealized or…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 Finally finished Julie Burchill’s Sugar Rush last night – it’s 208 pages. It’s a teen book but was also very graphic at some pointd in terms of its language. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of the TV show but as far as I can tell it’s a bit different.
Kim moves from her posh school to the local ‘scuzzy’ school where…[Read more]-
I read that when I was about 14 (13?), I think that’s about the age you can actually enjoy it at.
Sugar’s a weird character if ever there was one, so is Kim’s mother. Burchill says she only wrote it in 10 afternoons and it shows.
It surprises me that Julie Burchill writes for a respectable newspaper like the Independent. Maybe I’m being unfair…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 I finished ‘The Edible Woman’ by Margaret Atwood, 301 pgs, and it was. so. good. Oh man, I cannot believe how good it is. Marian, the main character, is just so, ugh, so exactly real even though she goes through a ‘crisis’ that seems completely unreal. Whether you choose to believe she’s going through some kind of mental…[Read more]
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Hi, just some more Atwood recommendations really, my favourite Atwood books though my absolute favourites are Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Penelopiad. Seeing as you liked ‘The Edible Woman’ I’d also recommend Life Before Man which is different to the others I’ve mentioned in that it doesn’t have a sci-fi/fantasy twist but is very…[Read more]
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I loved the Handmaid’s Tale. Another Atwood favorite of mine is “The Robber Bride”
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