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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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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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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Vampire Diaries: The Fury by LJ Smith (285 pages).
Still cheesy, still fun. It ends on a surprising down beat, which is kind of unusual for a YA book. I don’t think this was intended to be a 4 book series and it was supposed to end here. I’m actually glad she did write the 4th one because it’s my favorite in…[Read more]
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discospider posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1 I just finished Asimov On Science Fiction, by (obviously) Isaac Asimov (300 pages). It was a collection of essays from various places that he published over the years on the topic of science fiction: what it means, popular authors, film vs. books, and the history of the field. I enjoyed it, but Iโd read quite a few of the e…[Read more]
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have you ever read “The Secret History of Science Fiction” ed. by James Patrick Kelly? http://amzn.to/pQjbun it’s a collection of the best of the least known sci-fi works that defined the genre – “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “Descent of Man” by T. C. Boyle, “Homelanding” by Margaret Atwood, and a great many others.
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I haven’t, thanks for the recommendation! I’ve read a couple of the stories in it, but it still seems worth checking out.
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Nerd-Straddlers 12 years, 2 months ago
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
So, I finished the book I mentioned briefly at the end of my last post, The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (317). This came highly recommended by a friend; itโs about two different schools, one a music school and one a theatre school. At the music school, an underage girl is sleeping with her teacher, and it becomes an abuse s…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
After a string of good books, I finally read one that I didn’t like. I wanted to read Next, by James Hynes (308 pgs) because all the reviews said things like, “This book is great, and Something happens at the end that we can’t tell you about, but it’s what makes the book great.” How could you resist a mystery like that?
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle by LJ Smith (278 pages).
Still cheesy, still fun. Elena is way brattier and Stephen is more Angel-like in his angst than I remember. TV!Elena and TV!Stephen are way cooler.
So at the end of the book, Elena is killed by Katherine and becomes a vampire. I have no idea if…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHeya @internrachel, @julia1, everybody!
I just finished Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, 187 pages. To be fair, I started reading it a while ago and then put it down, as somewhere halfway through the spiritual stuff got a bit too much for my taste (and then I found myself reading like 5 books at the same time – I hate it when that happens). Other than…[Read more] -
Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoSometimes @internrachel and @julia1 when it rains it pours. Four books that I had requested awhile ago came in in a matter of two days this week while I was still reading ‘The Second Sex’. Library books take precedence though so I’ve read two of them and hope to have the other two done next week. First off is ‘A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the…[Read more]
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I read ‘A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World’ recently too! I loved it so, so much. It made me really nostalgic for my punk days. Don’t you think a lot of those selections wouldn’t look out of place in blogs these days? I think things are definitely moving online for that kind of expression for most girls, but I can’t help feeling like…[Read more]
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I was so sad when I saw it had been published in ’97 because I totally would have sent out for some of the zines. I think blogs have completely taken the place that zines once held, they’re a lot more convenient in a lot of ways but they seem less anarchic. It only takes a couple of minutes to set up a blog legally for free. Overall I’m pretty sad…[Read more]
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Ooo Valencia is one of my favorite books, like of all time. If you want to give Michelle Tea another shot, you might like The Chelsea Whistle more. It has less drugs and more structure.