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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoOk, @internrachel and @julia1, I just finished reading Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray (661 pages).
So this book opens with the title character, a 14-year-old boy, dying at a donut shop; it then moves back to the months leading up to his death. It focuses on the lives of Skippy and his classmates and teachers at his boy’s Catholic boarding school in…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just read Water for Elephants (350 pages) by Sara Gruen and If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (384 pages). I liked Gruen’s book because it had wonderful and vibrant characters, an interesting historical setting (Depression-era), and all the drama of being part of a circus. The book starts with a murder and then goes back and explains what…[Read more]
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I just read Water for Elephants this weekend (Sara Gruen, 350 pgs). I found it to be a quick, easy, and enjoyable read. I really liked the historical photographs of circuses sprinkled throughout (also, the Dr. Seuss quote at the beginning). I liked the parts set in the nursing home and it caused me to reflect on the incresing infantilization of…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished The Odyssey (306 pages) and The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (320 pages) a couple days ago. The Odyssey was, well, actually pretty good. The Most Human Human was interesting – I learned a lot about chatbots and the Turing Test, and a bit about human communication. Mostly…[Read more]
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