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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI am so bad at updating, @internrachel and @julia1 . But I made readings don’t worry!!1
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (395 pp)
A dystopian novel, year 2150. The US (now Gilead) is long past population 0, and a totalitarian regime takes over to reorganize society and encourage population growth. Women find themselves (again) without rights,…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHey, guess what you guys! Being in this group won me a BRAND NEW NOOK COLOR!!!1eleventy!
My local library was having a summer reading club for adults where you fill out a short review for every book you read. I thought “Hey, I’m already doing that for Autostraddle, I can just copy what I write for that onto these slips.” So I did and each slip…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (256 pages) is an international bestseller so no doubt someone else is the group has probably read it and I’d be interested in your thoughts.
The story is that of London-based Juliet Barrows who is trying to write a new book but has writer’s block. She…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agojury duty can be useful @internrachel and @julia1 , I got to reread ‘The Walking Dead’ graphic novel series up to the 6th book (issue #72, I think) by Robert Kirkman, 848 book club pgs, 1696 actual pgs. As a person who is equally terrified and fascinated by zombies I love this series. I’m stoked that the next hardcover collection is coming out in…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just finished Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (496 pages).
This was another dollar store find. I like Amy Tan’s writing and this book had a really interesting genesis. According to the introduction at the start of the book, Tan was caught in the rain in New York and came across a building marked “American Society…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1. This afternoon I finished “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway. A quick read. 260 pgs but it feels much shorter. The story takes place during the Seigue of Sarajevo, and centers around a local cellist, who witnesses an explosion at the market across the street from his home. He brings his cello into the street, and…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I finished ‘The Very Thought of You’ by Rosie Alison (350 pages). I chose it from a charity shop because it was sold as a ‘haunting coming-of-age novel with a love story at its heart’. It was set during World War II and seemed to have been nominated for lots of awards (albeit love story awards).
It is about a young…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoAaah, I went on a queer young adult fiction spree at the library and started out with Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger (226 pages). The real subject of this book is the whole High School Hierarchy situation – think Mean Girls, but from a gay boy’s perspective. I’m about to go on a reading retreat (aka a trip to the beach) so I should have a…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI can’t believe summer’s almost over @internrachel and @julia1 . This week I read ‘Geek Love’ by Katherine Dunn, 355 pgs, and ‘Nine Stories’ and ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction’ by J.D. Salinger, 198 pgs and 213 pgs respectively. None of these are new books for me but I really enjoy all of them (hence the…[Read more]
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dutchdyke posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
hi again,
i just finished ‘extremely loud and incredibly close’ by jonathan safran foer (326 pages). it was quite intense but in a good way.
heartbreaking and tragic in parts but hopeful and almost fairytale-like in others. a bit fantastic maybe but i liked it, also the style switches are interesting-
If you like Jonathan Safran Foer, I suggest Everything Is Illuminated (assuming you haven’t already read it). I loved that book and reread it frequently.
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reading that now! i found it a bit harder to get into than extremely loud.. i don’t know what it says about me that i find it easier to identify with a 9 year old boy… but i’m only at page 38 so i’ll just keep reading
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin (416 pages).
This is another remaindered book I picked up at the dollar store. I find the most interesting, random books there!
At the dawn of the 20th century, a girl with the completely awesome name of Lilly Nelly Aphrodite is born in Berlin, Germany. Her mother is a…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (349 pages). She’s a contemporary American novelist, and this particular book won her lots of praise & awards (Pulitzer, NY Times, etc!). I’ve read her previous book, Look At Me, and so was pretty excited about this one. It’s structured as a series of chapters told…[Read more] -
Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
When I checked out In A Sunburned Country, I also got The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (480 pages). I should start by saying that I don’t like reading about the victimization of women, and I REALLY don’t like reading explicit descriptions of sexual assault. If you don’t either, I suggest you stay away from this book. I finis…[Read more]-
I thought I was alone in not liking that book (or the movie)! It’s just an awful, awful story. Lisbeth is a good character, but the story she’s stuck in is so disgusting and has no real redeeming value that I could see, I just couldn’t care about her supposed awesomeness. And don’t even get me started about the stupidity that was her sexing up…[Read more]
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exactly! she was into Blomkvist because he made her feel safe? because he didn’t check her out right away or creep her out like most guys in her life? i don’t get it. the best part of Lisbeth Salander is the girl she slept with, Minni (or was it Milli?). And her feminist bar-hopping friends. I appreciated the fact that they called themselves the…[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
After I read Fried Green Tomatoes I finally got a library card! I was under the impression that one needed a Texas-issued ID to get a library card here, but that’s not true. I just needed a piece of mail addressed to me, and any kind of picture ID. So a couple weeks ago I started checking books out of my local library. One o…[Read more] - Load More