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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoHas anyone read the Room by Emma Donogue. I just started reading it after it having great reviews but it seems a little slow and sad, not sure whether to continue. Any recommendations here?
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I haven’t read it, but several people on a message board I go to called Snarkfest read it and were raving over it. These particular people have pretty good taste I think, so I wanted to give it a go. Apparently, a few of them felt it lagged a bit in the beginning as well, so maybe it picks up?
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Please continue. It’s such a good read. A bit depressing at some parts yet uplifting at the same time. You won’t regret reading it :)
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Strongly agree with @Zulu, with the caveat that we can’t know what may be particularly unsettling/press buttons for you… so stop if you are feeling that you need to stop… but I genuinely LOVED this book. Donoghue works her way pretty thoroughly through the possibilities of the situation, so there’s some intensity, but she does it with real…[Read more]
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I’m half way through at the moment on your advice, I think I will have to keep reading. I just find myself so haunted by it that I have trouble sleeping (though to be honest I read it just before bed). However I wake up in the morning grateful I’m not in that situation.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months ago“The Hours” by Michael Cunningham — it’s a rewriting of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and once I got over my initial feeling that it was sacrilegious to attempt to copy the perfection that is Woolf, I really enjoyed it. It is Autostraddle-relevant because it has been rewritten around the AIDs epidemic in New York in the 1980s, whereas in “Mrs…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoReading George Elliott (a female author who wrote under a mans name for sexism purposes). She’s so, so great.
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I completely adore George Eliot. Have you read “Romola” or “Silias Marner”? They are both excellent and less well known than “Middlemarch” or “The Mill on the Floss.”
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I haven’t personally, but only because I haven’t had time yet. Silas Mather was an option for an outside reading project in English recently…
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That’s the problem about great books — there’s never enough time to read all of them.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoAlright, I generally find myself opposed to reading books once they start to become big mainstream hits and turned into movies and stuff just because I’m weird like that. However, I recently finished reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and it was so, so good. I couldn’t put it down. Unless you just randomly know a lot about the circus, the…[Read more]
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I read Water for Elephants when it first was published, and I really liked it. I think I’ll pass on the movie though- the last movie I saw with Reese Witherspoon in it made me never want to watch another one of her films ever again!
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I’m afraid of all the Twilighters following Robert Pattinson around. I might watch it once it hits DVD. It depends on reviews I guess, because I hate seeing movies that don’t do the books justice.
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Good god, twilight fangirls. I forgot. I was going to go see it in theatres after I read the book, now I’ll probably just illegally download it.
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Now, I can say from experience that going with a friend who also hates twilight fangirls and then making fun of them together during the movie can be a pretty good defense.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoJude the Obscure via Thomas Hardy… not sure if it’ll measure up quite yet.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoIsland of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore, my second of his books. He’s fantastic.
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I looove Christopher Moore. I just finished Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and Coyote Blue. I think the only one I haven’t read yet is Fluke. I think my favorite is Fool, followed by You Suck (Abby Normal is an awesome character). I try not to read his books in any sort of public setting because I’m always getting weird looks from people as I…[Read more]
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Oh man, I just finished Fool. I really, really loved it!
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Does anybody else’s feline acquaintance (they sure as hell don’t like to be called “pets”) eat their food with their paws?
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Yes, and drinks water that way. She dips her paw in water and licks it off her paw.
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One of my cats does that too – it’s cute until he starts dipping his paws into my glass
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sometimes my cat does that right after she’s clearly been in the litter box. and she’s usually drinking out of my girlfriend’s bedside table water. my girlfriend freaks out and calls it poop water, and i laugh and laugh.
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My cat Petey (also my avatar on here) drinks this way! I thought he was the only one, since none of our other cats do this.
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