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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoFavourite quotes/lines?
I’d usually go for funny ones, and this one is a little bit cheesy but I kinda like it:
”Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death , inexhaustable time. I’d never thought of it before: I’d been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.” from My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoHas anyone read any Jonathan Lethem? I love ‘And She Crawled Across The Table’, and ‘Gun With Occasional Music’. Great titles too :)
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just started reading the Thousand and One Nights. Or the first volume, anyway–the title is not an exaggeration!
I’ve read a lot of new fiction but not a lot of good literature. I want to correct that, but I don’t really know where to start. Any suggestions?
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I’m with you on that – I’m trying to get books I really should have read by now, classics I have managed to miss. Reading Vanity Fair at the moment and it’s pretty funny.
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ok guys, classic classics or contemporary classics?
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Hmm. I really would like a little of both, but if we’re sticking to one, then classic classics, please! It’s probably a better starting point.
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ok well the following is a list of authors of classics, i’ve listed some books i thought were good. and also some which i haven’t read yet (asterisked), but i mean they’re classics. also this is possibly rather anglo/western-centric. god so much pressure i don’t profess to know anything
pre-1900s:
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just finished reading ‘Deathless’ by Catherynne Valente. Holy shit, she is a brilliant writer!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just started reading some of David Foster Wallace’s work and I love him!!! Any other fangays?
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I read the Broom of the System ages ago and didn’t like it, but have been thinking I should try one of his again – what are you reading?
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I’m reading The Girl With the Curious Hair, just read “This is Water,” and have Infinite Jest sitting on my nightstand. I think Broom of the System was his first book, maybe his later books are different?
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m reading Role Models by John Waters. His writing makes me make this face: http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/disgusted_cat0.jpg but in the best way possible
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI really liked “Pages For You” by Sylvia Brownrigg. Any suggestions?
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About a Girl by Joanne Horniman (also everything else she writes, but especially My Candlelight Novel and A Charm of Powerful Trouble)
Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties by Felicia Luna Lemus
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Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties by Felicia Luna Lemus
looks really good, i’ll make sure to order that from amazon or something.
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Remember to use the AS Amazon link!
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rightto. haven’t done that yet.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI wrestled so much with joining this group. On the one hand, Autostraddlers + books. On the other, the number of members was at 69.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI read a lot of YA and kids’ stuff and review it at pannarrens.wordpress.com. I will take requests as long as it vaguely interests me and I can get it from my library. If I had to buy all the books I read, I’d go broker than I am now.
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Especially if you have any YA LGBT books to recommend…
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“A Love Story” by Emily Horner (that i posted earlier here) is a lesbian YA that i highly recommend. are you just looking for new titles or anything…
i’m a teen librarian and these are of interest to me. :) sooo many good books (i also just read “Huntress” by Malindo Lo! #omg).
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i have so many favorite lgbtq YA books: anything by David Levithan (esp. “Boy Meets Boy” and “Love is the Higher Law” & “Wide Awake”), anything by Julie Anne Peters (favs include a book of short stories, “Grl2Grl,” “Between Mom & Jo,” and “Rage”.) “Gravity” by Leanne Lieberman is profound and offers a look into orthodox Judaism, “Empress of the…[Read more]
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“Pages for You” by Sylvia Brownigg is my fave.
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Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters is pretty much the best LGBT YA I’ve read.
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Yes! A thousand times yes!
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Having said that, I am lazing in the sunshine reading autostraddle and drinking tea, so it’s not a magic bullet ;)
“I’m up to here with cool, okay? I’m so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I’m so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis” Hitchhikers Guide
also from Hitchhikers:
“don’t you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.” Line I quote most, especially to my middle school students.