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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoLet me try that again:
Finished A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. 311 pages. Makes Harvard Yard seem waaaaay scarier. Whenever Atwood mentioned Luke, the husband, I couldn’t help but picture Luke from Gilmore Girls, which really wasn’t appropriate.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month 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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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI’m way behind on posting here, so here we go:
(requisite tagging of @internrachel and @julia1)
Since June 16th…
I read Daniel Deronda by George Eliot on my Kindle, but, according to Goodreads, it’d be, er, 832 pages in non-digital format. I read Middlemarch earlier in the spring, and I la-la-loved it, so DD was a disappointment in…[Read more]
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this is a pretty seriously gay/feminist reading list. i’m into it.
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Marry me, please?
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I read Fun Home (twice) last summer and loved it!
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Aw, thanks, guys. I never took a women’s and gender studies class in college, so I had a lot of catching up to do. Atwood’s next, or is next once I finish this riveting Kaplan GRE Exam Math Workbook.
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Ah, truly a classic. I always felt that book should have been more scary than it actually was, though. I’m not a fan of Atwood’s writing style. I thought the concept was terrifying and in the hands of a better (or at least different) writer, I would have actually felt some emotional impact while reading it. But it’s definitely one I’m glad I…[Read more]
I love A Handmaid’s Tale! And I did the Gilmore Girls thing…
Have you read any other Atwood?