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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoOk, @internrachel and @julia1, I just finished reading Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray (661 pages).
So this book opens with the title character, a 14-year-old boy, dying at a donut shop; it then moves back to the months leading up to his death. It focuses on the lives of Skippy and his classmates and teachers at his boy’s Catholic boarding school in…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just read Water for Elephants (350 pages) by Sara Gruen and If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (384 pages). I liked Gruen’s book because it had wonderful and vibrant characters, an interesting historical setting (Depression-era), and all the drama of being part of a circus. The book starts with a murder and then goes back and explains what…[Read more]
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I just read Water for Elephants this weekend (Sara Gruen, 350 pgs). I found it to be a quick, easy, and enjoyable read. I really liked the historical photographs of circuses sprinkled throughout (also, the Dr. Seuss quote at the beginning). I liked the parts set in the nursing home and it caused me to reflect on the incresing infantilization of…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished The Odyssey (306 pages) and The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive (320 pages) a couple days ago. The Odyssey was, well, actually pretty good. The Most Human Human was interesting – I learned a lot about chatbots and the Turing Test, and a bit about human communication. Mostly…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished Othello (265 pages) and Huntress by Malinda Lo (371 pages). You read Ash, now go get Huntress. I’m sure there are some others out there reading it, and it is good times (reading fantasy books with woods involved reminds me of my childhood, except this time, there’s more lesbian stuff). I read it next to my window when it was…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI’ve never really read the book posts before. The only lesbian book I’ve ever read is Annie On My Mind. I read it in high school, clandestinely, in installments, crouching behind shelves in my school library while waiting for my mom to come pick me up after school–periodically going to the window to check the parking lot, to avoid discovery. I…[Read more]
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I love Annie On My Mind – it was my first legit lesbian book too. I would go to the library and read it in a chair by the window without checking it out, so my parents wouldn’t find it. When I was a freshman in college, I bought it and read it over and over.
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this was my first REAL lesbian book, too (and is still my nostalgic favorite). i sincerely believe that it saved my life.
…and this is why (regardless of circulation statistics), good teen librarians make sure lgbtq books are always in the collection (and that comfy chairs are available to scootch behind shelving). #itsathing…[Read more]
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