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kdizzle posted on the forum topic Firefly in the group
Browncoats, Scoobies & other Whedonites: 12 years, 2 months agoMy life goal is to purchase the DVDs when I am a Real Adult and have money to spend on such things.
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI read Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (398 pages) and another one I’d forgotten to write about here, A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (352 pages). I’m trying to read more books from BBC’s Top 100 Books list and a bunch of friends have recommended Good Omens. I haven’t read fantasy-type books in a while and…[Read more]
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Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHey guys!
So, I saw the Harry Potter movie last Saturday, and I decided it would be fun to reread the books! Like, all of them! So I did. (309, 341, 317, 734, 870, 652, and 759 pages, individually, and 3,982 pages total!)
On the whole, it was a really strange experience. I had read the books when I was much younger and…[Read more]
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alex posted on the forum topic What are your favorite queer documentaries? in the group
We Love Documentaries: 12 years, 2 months agoummmm is this forum happening? i’ll go first. one of my favourites is venus of mars which is about a trannie mtf who ends up living between genders and keeps the same wife throughout. their relationship is amazing in that it shows how ‘normal’ their relationship is throughout the journey between genders.
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim (288 pages).
This traced historical attitudes toward menstruation, as well as the products and medical interventions developed to deal with it, mostly from an American perspective, but with occasional dips into ancient history as well. It…[Read more]
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Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I finished The Road (256 pages) right after I read A Separate Peace. Here’s the review I wrote after I finished:
Reading The Road was like watching a particularly disturbing episode of Criminal Minds, an episode that makes me sick to my stomach and I want to turn of the tv but I can’t because I would probably imagine a much…[Read more] -
Jess posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I have been reading a lot these past few weeks because I just moved to Texas and don’t have internet at my house yet. I’m accessing autostraddle.com from my local library, where I can’t check out books because I don’t have any form of Texas ID yet. A couple of weeks ago I read A Separate Peace (196 pages), mostly while…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Cat’s Claw: A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel by Amber Benson (320 pages). Yes, Tara from ‘Buffy’ is also a writer!
In this book, Cerberus the three-headed hellhound calls in his favor from Callie, sending her to retrieve a wayward soul by the name of Senenmut. At the same time, she’s also trying to retrieve the…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoSo after what felt like to me a book flurry during my holidays it has taken me a week to finish ‘Mud’ by Nicky Edwards which is only 192 pags.
I bought it from a charity shop because it was a Women’s Fiction Press book. I don’t know if anywhere outside of Britain has that but I’m sure there are equivalents; in the UK…[Read more] -
kakapo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Ok, onto another one I finished recently: Big Sex Little Death, Susie Bright’s recent memoir (317 pages). I thought it might be a more over-arching memoir of her life thus far, but it’s actually focused on three main periods of her life – her childhood, which segues into her involvement as a communist activist and…[Read more] -
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoso @internrachel and @julia1 when I said I’d finish ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (by Jane Austen, 272 pgs) this week I meant I would finish it today. It’s taken me awhile to finish it because I’ve been reading it as an e-book between library books and when google books stops working on my iPod. Also it’s not my favorite Jane Austen book. It wasn’t bad,…[Read more]
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hannah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI recently finished reading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (329 pages) and Bossypants by Tina Fey (275 pages). Basically: I read The Age of Innocence a few years ago, loved it, decided to try out some more Edith Wharton and ultimately needed to take a break halfway through with Tina Fey. There were a few things I didn’t love about House of…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 another brief break from ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (I will finish it this week!). Bought ‘Fun Home’ by Alison Bechdel, 232 pgs (but counts as 116 pgs, graphic novel y’all) today at the Strand because it was half price. So if you live in/near NYC and don’t already own it, its only $7 at the Strand! I’ve read it before, I…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHi @internrachel, @julia1 – and everyone else. So, last week, I finished Nabokov’s LOLITA (336 pages). I read it once before, about 5 years ago now, but it does warrant a re-read. Is it funny that I see it as a summer book? Probably because I first read it on a hot summer holiday in Spain, but I still see it as a summer read. I guess I don’t…[Read more]
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kakapo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Eep, I’m so far behind on this. Summer has been chaotic and sweaty, but I have managed to read a few more books. The least recent was The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, by Ariel Gore (217 pages). This was a revisit; I originally read the book a few years ago, around the time it came out. Though it led me to one of my…[Read more] - Load More
I get pretty excited any time anyone says they’re reading Good Omens. I just needed to share that.
Good Omens! Love Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, separately or together. Reading more of the BBC top 100 sounds like a fun challenge to give yourself. If you want any recommendations as to what to read next, I thought the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy by Philip Pullman was brilliant and a lot of fun.
I actually have had that trilogy on my shelf for ages, I’ve been meaning to read it for years. One of these days!
A lot of the books on the list that I haven’t read are ones I’ve been meaning to read anyway, so it’ll be fun, even if I never have as much time as I’d like to read.