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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Yeah, it’s me again. To be honest, I’m actually getting a little bored of reading, but I can barely even walk right now, so….
Anyway, today I read American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott (349 pages).Born to a stage mother so horrid even Dina Lohan would say “Wow, maybe you…[Read more]
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Dana posted on the forum topic Firefly in the group
Browncoats, Scoobies & other Whedonites: 12 years, 3 months agoShiny!
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read The Clocks by Agatha Christie (257 pages).
A woman who works for a typing agency receives a request asking her to come to a certain house for a transcription job. When she arrives, she finds a murdered man on the floor surrounded by a bunch of clocks. The blind woman who owns the house denies ever calling for…[Read more]
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Lisa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI recently finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand ( 496 pages). It was a very informative and inspiring read. Hillenbrand made it easy to follow a story full of facts, dates, and names; it read much like a memoir.
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI last read Significant Others by Armistead Maupin (322 pages) and Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (246 pages). Significant Others may be the most enjoyable book in this series that I’ve read so far. This time it introduced “the world’s most beautiful fat woman,” a model named Wren, and a woman-only campground/festival situation called…[Read more]
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Megan posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOh god, I have been absent for too long! Unfortunately, I have only read one book since my last post which was Tolkien’s Return of The King (385 pages). Since picking up another job (working two now!) the only time I have to read is on my commute to/from Chicago. Anyway! Adored it, as expected. The Houses of Healing was definitely my favorite…[Read more]
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caroline posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I do most of my reading during my morning commute, and I still get a little embarrassed sometimes when I’m reading a graphic novel on the train because I feel like people around me with less discerning taste might think it’s a kids’ book. One time I had one such graphic novel with me when I stopped by my neighborhood liquor…[Read more] -
Leah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
After remembering why I was never the one to win those elementary school reading competitions because I never remembered to fill them out after reading, I realized I should probably update here, though I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like because I had a brief darth of interesting books to read, and then was back at…[Read more] -
Jules posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Ack, I’ve gotten ridiculously behind on book club updates. My friend and I made a giant list of books we have to read before we die, so I’ve been doing that — I read Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (320 pages), which was rhapsodic and beautiful and disturbing and devastating, and made me have visions of F. Scott…[Read more] -
discospider posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (959 pages). If you’re into the Song of Ice and Fire series, you’ve probably been waiting for this book for a ridiculous amount of years. I definitely enjoyed it, but I was a little frustrated by how many of the characters were pretty much in the same place at the…[Read more]-
I’ve been wondering about RR Martin. Also been looking for a new fantasy/sci fi series to pick up. May look into it!
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I tell everyone the first book can be a little tricky to get through if you aren’t willing to sit through a lot of conversation, but I think the series overall is pretty badass.
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My mom started reading this series recently and she is OBSESSED! Is this the last book in the series? I have a bad feeling that if it’s not, Martin may not actually finish the series. Mom would be devastated.
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It’s not the last, there are at least two more expected. He took a looooooooong time to finish this one, and his fans are pretty freaked out about it. People keep saying ‘don’t pull a Robert Jordan on us’ (Robert Jordan died before finishing the Wheel of Time series), and Martin gets annoyed about that cause Jordan was a good friend of his.
I do…[Read more]
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I am so excited to start these!! I have heard so many good things. I first heard of it because I got sucked into the television adaptation of Game of Thrones (mostly because Sean Bean was in it and I mean its Boromir, come on). When I realized they were books, my heart fluttered.
However, I hope I didn’t poison the experience by seeing the show…[Read more]
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I don’t think so, I think the show is really well done, but I think you’ll still totally enjoy the books, and you’ll probably enjoy getting the kind of details that books can present more easily than shows.
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I read An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin (304 pages) in one sitting, due to really bad cramps and not being able to move. I grabbed it because I remembered liking Shopgirl (though the movie didn’t do anything for me–I think because it creeped me out that Steve Martin cast himself) and it happened to be on display…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier (448 pages).
This is the sequel to ‘Wildwood Dancing’ that I read earlier. In this one, the second youngest sister, Paula, accompanies her merchant father on a business trip to Istanbul. Her father’s secretary falls ill and as a scholar, Paula is the best person to fill…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 So yesterday I wrote about two books I read in the week, I also finished a third and started on my next.
Finished is Juno and Juliet by Julian Gough (304 pages). This is about twin sisters Juno and Juliet who head from Tipperary to Galway for their first year at university. One of the reasons I got the book was to see how…[Read more]
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Krystle posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI went on a Stieg Larsson binge this week, since my sister wanted to watch all 3 (!!!) movies on Netflix, I figured I’d read the books before I saw the films… yanno… to prepare myself and see what I was in for. So, I read “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (590 pgs), “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (630 pgs) and “The…[Read more]
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Brianna started the forum topic What are your favorite queer documentaries? in the group
We Love Documentaries: 12 years, 3 months agoTalk.
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Brianna posted on the forum topic What are your favorite documentaries? in the group
We Love Documentaries: 12 years, 3 months agoWell Brianna, some of my favorite documentaries are We Live in Public, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Man on Wire.
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Brianna started the forum topic What was the last documentary you watched? in the group
We Love Documentaries: 12 years, 3 months agoWell?
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Brianna started the forum topic Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in the group
Browncoats, Scoobies & other Whedonites: 12 years, 3 months agoEverything related to Dr. Horrible goes here.
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