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Steph posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I finished reading “The Book of Negroes”, by Canadian author Lawrence Hill (470 pgs). The title of the novel comes from the historical document of the same name , which recorded the names of thousands of Black Loyalists, who left the US because they were promised a better life in Nova Scotia. In the US, the book was marketed under the…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel & @juia1 – feeling a little behind on my summer book club! a couple of weeks ago I finished The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (also pretty behind on my Hollinghurst, this is his first novel & he just released his fifth). Anyway! The protagonist is Will, a young gay aristocrat living in London, meeting lots of boys, e…[Read more]
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Forgot to say – 304 pages! Also my @julia1 didn’t work due to typing failure
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agobing bang boom @internrachel and @julia1! Had a very productive week/end, I read The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, 704 pgs, in a week! A personal best. I have a strange tradition of rereading either Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead every summer, I can’t remember when I started but I’ve been doing it at least 5 years. I usually alternate but it…[Read more]
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I love The Fountainhead, but every time I read it, I think about The Perks of Being a Wallflower:
“So, in school Bill gave me my final book to read for the year. It’s called The Fountainhead, and it’s very long. When he gave me the book, Bill said, ‘Be skeptical about this one. It’s a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.'”
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOh another thing. I just left for summer work at a place where I can’t have many books, so can I just say that I read 97 pages of Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen and 56 pages of The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Cuelho. Both were good thus far, and I’ll finish them when I get back. When does “the summer” end for this, @internrachel, @julia1?
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I also finished The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (117 pages) last week, which was so fucking adorable and so relevant to my life. The main character, Charlie, was nothing like me in most ways, but I think deep down most/all teenagers/young adults have the same feelings about some things. Also, the whole…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just now I finished Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (400 pages). THIS BOOK WAS AWESOME! I literally could not stop reading it. I started it at about 11 am and it’s now 2 am. I didn’t even stop for meals; I ate while I read.
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LCB posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoThis weekend I devoured Alice Echols’s Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (239 delightful pages). Echols is both an English and gender studies professor and a former DJ (at this amazing sounding but sadly long-defunct club in Ann Arbor called the Rubaiyat), so she has the requisite scholarly detachment…[Read more]
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Allie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agodear @internrachel and @julia1 and bookstraddlers,
This week I’ve read two fairly short, quick reads. The first was The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, 256 pages, which is about a young woman named Taylor who gets the hell out of her small Kentucky town as soon as she can and finds herself unexpectedly looking after an abandoned toddler who she…[Read more] -
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOkay, so I have a double-whammy for you, @internrachel, @julia1. I read a book, as well as listened to it.
I downloaded the audiobook of The Alchemist, by Paulo Cuelho a long time ago, when I was on a taking advantage of everything free on iTunes spree. I had never heard the title before and I didn’t really care to look at it. I remember…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished reading Blind Faith by Sagarika Ghose (273 pages). I’m not quite sure what to think of it yet. I definitely wanted to like it more than I actually did, though. Which is not to say I DISliked it, I just…don’t know what to think yet.The story is about an Indian British woman named Mia who is devastated by…[Read more]
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Ri ("ree") posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Social Club – Boston Chapter! 12 years, 3 months ago
Mini meet-up at ZuZu this Tuesday?
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI have a new favorite author: Vendela Vida. She’s fantastic! I love love love her books. I just finished “Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name” (240 pages) and it was so great. I can’t really talk about it at all because I don’t want to give away the plot, but you (everyone) should go read it. I also read Caroll Spinney’s book “The Wisdom of…[Read more]
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOkay @internrachel, @julia1 I have about 6 books to put on here but I’ll do them one at a time. First on the stack is Dragonsoul, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. This baby is 451 pages long and the third in a series, the first being Havemercy and the second being Shadow Magic. If you like sci-fi, lots of swearwords, fighting, magic, and…[Read more]
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