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Ren posted an update in the group
No fucks to GIVE 12 years, 2 months ago
I secretly give a fuck… it sucks.
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Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHey guys!
So, I saw the Harry Potter movie last Saturday, and I decided it would be fun to reread the books! Like, all of them! So I did. (309, 341, 317, 734, 870, 652, and 759 pages, individually, and 3,982 pages total!)
On the whole, it was a really strange experience. I had read the books when I was much younger and…[Read more]
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No fucks to GIVE 12 years, 2 months ago
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim (288 pages).
This traced historical attitudes toward menstruation, as well as the products and medical interventions developed to deal with it, mostly from an American perspective, but with occasional dips into ancient history as well. It…[Read more]
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Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I finished The Road (256 pages) right after I read A Separate Peace. Here’s the review I wrote after I finished:
Reading The Road was like watching a particularly disturbing episode of Criminal Minds, an episode that makes me sick to my stomach and I want to turn of the tv but I can’t because I would probably imagine a much…[Read more] -
Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I have been reading a lot these past few weeks because I just moved to Texas and don’t have internet at my house yet. I’m accessing autostraddle.com from my local library, where I can’t check out books because I don’t have any form of Texas ID yet. A couple of weeks ago I read A Separate Peace (196 pages), mostly while…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Cat’s Claw: A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel by Amber Benson (320 pages). Yes, Tara from ‘Buffy’ is also a writer!
In this book, Cerberus the three-headed hellhound calls in his favor from Callie, sending her to retrieve a wayward soul by the name of Senenmut. At the same time, she’s also trying to retrieve the…[Read more]
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lilyv posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Sports Club 12 years, 2 months agodoes anyone keep up with cycling or it’s doping scandals. well you can watch this interview of floyd landis talking about doping in cycling and more specifically lance armstrong. a little long but worth it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-bensinger/floyd-landis-lance-armstrong-_b_904123.html
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoSo after what felt like to me a book flurry during my holidays it has taken me a week to finish ‘Mud’ by Nicky Edwards which is only 192 pags.
I bought it from a charity shop because it was a Women’s Fiction Press book. I don’t know if anywhere outside of Britain has that but I’m sure there are equivalents; in the UK…[Read more] -
kakapo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Ok, onto another one I finished recently: Big Sex Little Death, Susie Bright’s recent memoir (317 pages). I thought it might be a more over-arching memoir of her life thus far, but it’s actually focused on three main periods of her life – her childhood, which segues into her involvement as a communist activist and…[Read more] -
Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoso @internrachel and @julia1 when I said I’d finish ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (by Jane Austen, 272 pgs) this week I meant I would finish it today. It’s taken me awhile to finish it because I’ve been reading it as an e-book between library books and when google books stops working on my iPod. Also it’s not my favorite Jane Austen book. It wasn’t bad,…[Read more]
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hannah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI recently finished reading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (329 pages) and Bossypants by Tina Fey (275 pages). Basically: I read The Age of Innocence a few years ago, loved it, decided to try out some more Edith Wharton and ultimately needed to take a break halfway through with Tina Fey. There were a few things I didn’t love about House of…[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 another brief break from ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (I will finish it this week!). Bought ‘Fun Home’ by Alison Bechdel, 232 pgs (but counts as 116 pgs, graphic novel y’all) today at the Strand because it was half price. So if you live in/near NYC and don’t already own it, its only $7 at the Strand! I’ve read it before, I…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHi @internrachel, @julia1 – and everyone else. So, last week, I finished Nabokov’s LOLITA (336 pages). I read it once before, about 5 years ago now, but it does warrant a re-read. Is it funny that I see it as a summer book? Probably because I first read it on a hot summer holiday in Spain, but I still see it as a summer read. I guess I don’t…[Read more]
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kakapo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Eep, I’m so far behind on this. Summer has been chaotic and sweaty, but I have managed to read a few more books. The least recent was The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, by Ariel Gore (217 pages). This was a revisit; I originally read the book a few years ago, around the time it came out. Though it led me to one of my…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Yeah, it’s me again. To be honest, I’m actually getting a little bored of reading, but I can barely even walk right now, so….
Anyway, today I read American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott (349 pages).Born to a stage mother so horrid even Dina Lohan would say “Wow, maybe you…[Read more]
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Carmen SanDiego posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Sports Club 12 years, 2 months agoAnyone watching WNY Flash-MagicJack game on Fox Soccer Channel? Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach & Marta among players in uniform
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Clocks by Agatha Christie (257 pages).
A woman who works for a typing agency receives a request asking her to come to a certain house for a transcription job. When she arrives, she finds a murdered man on the floor surrounded by a bunch of clocks. The blind woman who owns the house denies ever calling for…[Read more]
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Lisa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI recently finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand ( 496 pages). It was a very informative and inspiring read. Hillenbrand made it easy to follow a story full of facts, dates, and names; it read much like a memoir.
I found this story incredibly interesting even though I’m not a World…[Read more] - Load More