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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown. 389 pages. Frazier is in the hospital dying and decides that after a lifetime of lying, she should die an honest person, so she writes letters to everyone she knows telling them what she really thinks of them and also coming out to them. BUT THEN, it turns out she’s not really dying.
There was a lot…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoHi! I just finished The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson (576 pages). It’s the third book in the Lisbeth Salander trilogy. It’s not as good as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (which is the best book in the series, imo), but it continues the story right were the second book ends so I felt like I had to read it. I feel like…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoThis is quite lovely actually, cause at the beginning of the summer my friend wrote a book list for me of her quintessential queer reads.
I started with The Last Time I Wore A Dress, a memoir By Daphne Scholinski. 211 pages. Talk about heartbreaking, but enduring. Daphne detailed her detention in mental institutions for the greater part of her…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI’m going to be the only person here posting about comics, aren’t I?
#nerd
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No no, I will read Y: The Last Man maybe.
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That one was pretty good, but i never finished it. I’ll be interested in hearing how you liked it!
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I cried really hard through, like, the last 3 issues.
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you are not alone. i’ve got several series that i want to read/re-read this summer. so much graphic goodness. :)
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DC girl all the way here! :) But I’m still waiting for DC to release Batwoman….
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I am in the middle of re-reading Thor and Incredible Hercules, so definitely not!
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Hell no! I have one of Ariel Schrag’s graphic novels in the mail to me right now, so I’ll definitely be posting about that in the next week or so. I’m also contemplating a full series reread of “Strangers in Paradise.”
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make sure to post about it here when you read it! Which one did you get? Her stuff intrigues me, but i’ve never actually read a book of hers, only what’s online.
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No, I haven’t read Fun Home. That’s one of those I keep meaning to read, but somehow it always stays somewhere in the middle of my To Read list!
I’m getting “Potential: The Highschool Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag.” I saw it mentioned somewhere on Autostraddle, and I got really excited about it. Luckily, a copy of it was just posted on…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished The Famished Road by Ben Okri today and it was exactly 500 pages long! Overall, I liked the book. The beginning and end were fantastic but some of the middle was a bit slow. The book is essentially narrated by a “spirit-child” named Azaro who is reborn (reluctantly) as a human child but keeps his connections to the other world. He…[Read more]
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Michigan Lesbogays 12 years, 4 months ago
Just read Jenna’s post and I miss my best friend in Traverse City and I miss my favorite places like the Dunes, the Bluebird for a whitefish sandwich and driving around M-22.
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Have you visited the M-22 store? Great shop downtown.
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no even tho my friend and I went up and down Front like tourists last time because it had been so long since we had been in the stores but I am going to check it out next time I go up.
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It is definitely a store worth going into. Mostly clothing though.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoHi @internrachel, @julia1 and everybody else!
I am sososo excited about book club!!!!!
I read Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson (329 pages) a few days ago…I didn’t actually know he used to be a talk show host, until about halfway through when I decided to read the back. It was a fun summer read but not exceptional :( It was…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI’m dragging my way through Revolutionary Road. It’s wonderfully written but terribly depressing and it’s so beautiful outside… #dilemmaeveryday
(PS: Did anyone even like Tootsie Rolls?)
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revolutionary road is incredibly depressing. beautifully written but kinda makes you want to jump off a cliff. definetly a winter time read so that the weather matches the mood of th book but since you have already started i’d say just finish it. its worth it. i kinda of think of it like lolita very wrong and not heartwarming but written so well…[Read more]
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Maybe it’s a good idea to read it in the summer though? If I get too melancholic I can just step outside.
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a friend described Revolutionary Road as “it took more than it gave”, and ever since I’ve been a bit apprehensive to read it…
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Your friend is probably right, but I must say the book also inspires reflexion like few novels do.
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