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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoso i decided that i’m going to read only books by female authors this summer after realizing that women are woefully underrepresented in my personal library and in my list of favorite authors. so far i’ve read the twilight series (ughhh i know…. i just like books and movies with characters that have no redeemable qualities), girls to the front…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoBest books about music? Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century is my all-time favorite. I love his work.
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i just read “Five Flavors of Dumb” by Antony John. Piper, the main character, is going to school one day and she and her classmates are confronted by a guerilla performance by her high school’s resident rock band. she gets cocky and bets them that she can get them a paying gig in a month as their manager. are they any good? she has no idea. Piper…[Read more]
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Hmm. Geoff Dyer’s ‘But Beautiful’…
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoi’ve just finished ‘delusions of gender’ by cordelia fine. i read ‘why so slow’ by virginia valian before
i can really recommend them both, very interesting reads, well backed by substantial scientific evidence. but also rather frustrating in ways when you realize how (subtly) misogynistic society/academia still is..any suggestions for further…[Read more]
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If you’re interesting in feminism and sex, Jessica Valenti’s The Purity Myth (taking on the abstinence movement) and Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture are a good duo.
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OMG Delusions of Gender was so good! I want to buy it for everybody now. If you haven’t read it I’d recommend Natalie Angier’s Woman: An Intimate Geography, a great science/sex/feminism read. Also Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, by Joan Roughgarden.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoJust finished reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Freaking amazing. No gayness unfortunately, but particularly good for anyone who’d like to know more about Bangladesh,London and immigration into the UK.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoJust finished my third Christopher Moore book in a row: Bloodsucking Fiends. I also started Tipping the Velvet awhile back. Any thoughts? It’s my first lesbian-related fiction book. Why do they all have to be romances though? I want action! I want excitement! Lesbian ninjas vs zombies! Yanno.. something.
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If you like Christopher Moore, try tracking down Rock N Roll Babes From Outer Space by Linda Jaivin–it’s one of those pop-culture-humor based surreal goofy comedies, and all the main females are queer in one way or another. (The leader is heteroflexible, one is opportunistic, and one’s a butch rockergirl lesbian.)
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OMG that’s awesome! I’ll look for it. Thanks!
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Gerri Hill writes some good action; I liked “The Target,” and the first couple books of Radclyffe’s “Honor” series are good. If you want ninjas, I recommend “A Love Story: Starring My Dead Best Friend” by Emily Horner. I know it sounds rough, but it’s an amazing YA book. trust me.
I have lots of other teen books and mass-market lesbian…[Read more]
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Awesome :) I haven’t read a young adult book since I was a young adult…does RL Stine still write? I used to love him!
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Stine’s books are being repackaged…i’m not sure that’s the same thing. there’s a current trend in YA lit to reissue older series (l.J. Smith, Christopher Pike, etc.) in three-in-one omnibuses. if you like that type of story, however, i highly recommend lori stolarz’s “Project 17.”
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoCan we talk about the amazingness that is a Kindle? I’ve developed an unhealthy attachment to mine. Like, I get anxiety if I forget to take it with me when I go somewhere, even if I won’t be able to read it. I have about 45 books on it right now. Does anyone else have one? (or a Nook, or a E-Reader)
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Word. I’m in love with mine. I’ve got about 120 books on it, mostly thanks to Project Gutenberg. I live in Asia, so the Kindle is really my only means of purchasing English language books. I’d be dying out here without it(or more likely: using the Internet A LOT more). I can’t always find the books I want on it(JD Salinger, get your dead self up…[Read more]
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A friend from Malaysia says that if you set your address to the States, you can purchase more books. (Because of liscensing whatnots)
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also, i would totally recommend still life! it has a respectful view on taxidermy from a person who is initially an outsider to the field. it covers the history and present of taxidermy concisely but thoroughly. i’m definitely biased towards it because i appreciate taxidermy but even if you aren’t the author breaks down stereotypes and gives a…[Read more]
I am glad that you want to spotlight women in literature. here is a web sight by women about women in literature. http://vidaweb.org/
when people tell me that they read twilight, i usually try to get them to check out “better” vampire books. three quick favorites (and this is from someone who really doesn’t enjoy vampires – but these are well written/hilarious):
Evernight series by Claudia Gray
Boys that Bite by Mari Mancusi
Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
ooo, I would recommend ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ by Joan Didion. It’s a beautifully varied collection of essays about California in the sixties. If anything, I’d say read the essay on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury culture during the Summer of Love is most definitely worth a look. :]
I would definitely read Atlas Shrugged instead of The fountain head if you are going to do Ayn Rand. I mean though you have to take a step back and try realllllly hard not to get sucked up in the fantasy world she weaves and realize that it cannot work and that she left out major major points. But it is a fantastic novel =]
Geek Love fucked with my head so hard omg, I’m jealous that you get to take that trip.
I generally strongly recommend against reading anything by Ayn Rand but like Angela said at least Atlas Shrugged is a better(ish – it’s still really bad) story.
Jack the Ripper – Case Closed is a compelling argument but not really case closed. It’s awesome…[Read more]
thanks for all the suggestions, these are definitely getting added to my list! i’m also putting ‘tipping the velvet’ and ‘orlando’ on and probably some sylvia plath (but not the bell jar, i read that right before a semi-recent break up and it was a baaaad idea)
ie. ayn rand: it’s too late for me, i’ve already read and reread the fountainhead and…[Read more]
I like the idea of reading only female writers. I’ve spoken with a lot of friends (male and female) who seem to dismiss them. I’ve been keeping a list of all the books I’ve read this year, so far I’ve read 31 of which (unintentionally) 20 were women. I think my favourites probably were by women as well.
Can I recommend Margaret Atwood (Oryx and…[Read more]
i love margaret atwood.so.much.
jamie, if you read any of hers and decide you like them, i’d like to suggest barbara kingsolver. both writers have a lot of eco-feminist themes in their books, and i think that if you enjoy one, you’ll like the other. (i personally like ‘prodigal summer’ and ‘the poisonwood bible’ best out of kingsolver’s books)
You said you wanted to read graphic novels – my favorite graphic novel by a lady is Alison Bechdel’s FUN HOME. Not only is the art fantastic but it’s an amazing literary coming-of-age / coming out story.
oh man, i love fun home! i think i’m either going to have to re-read or buy it this summer, probably both
I’ve been pimping Catherynne Valente like there’s no tomorrow, but she’s so awesome and I love every word she writes.
‘Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang’ by Joyce Carole Oates is a really great story, as well as a scathing critique of the treatment of gender, class, and race. With bonus lesbosexy subtext!
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If you read YA or fantasy, Malinda Lo’s “Ash” and “Huntress” (especially Huntress) are quite great and easy read.
Virginia Woolf’s “To the light house”, anything by Jane Austen and Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters’s “Fingersmith” are also brilliant..
the name of the star, by maureen johnson #jacktheripper #contemporary