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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoMore Shirley Jackson @internrachel and @julia1. This time it was We Have Always Lived in the Castle, 214 pgs. The build-up in the beginning was a little slow (and I’m reading two other books right now so I wasn’t entirely focused) but once I got about 50 pgs in I was totally hooked. I read most of it on the (ridiculous) subway rides I had…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
And the other book I read was Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota (256 pages). This is narrated by Imtiaz, a young British Muslim, born and raised in Sheffield. The novel is told as a series of recollections as Imtiaz (Imz) is preparing himself to die for the beliefs he holds dear as a letter to his estranged wife,…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’ve just got back from holiday so have a couple of booms I want to mention. On Monday morning I finished off Landing by Emma Donoghue which is 336 pages. It is about Jude from a town called Ireland in Canada and Síle, an air hostess who lives in Dublin, Ireland. They meet on a flight that a reluctant Jude takes to…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution edited by Karen Green and Tristan Taormino (she of the blog post about fisting and censorship in the most recent NSFW Sunday post, incidentally). (200 pages)
This is a big ol’ collection of writings from zines written by and for…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI read Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein (the version published back in 1994, not the updated 2010 one) this week – 249 pages. I felt like it might add some breadth to my queer bookshelf, especially given that since I came out I’ve read more lesbian authors than anything else. And of course Kate Bornstein is a lesbian in her…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHello book club, @internrachel @julia1
Recently, I read The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex. Everybody loves a good alien invasion, right? This one doubles as a road trip story, so it’s extra ambitious. A girl, her cat, and an alien named JLo travel across the USA and have wacky adventures. But that’s not all: it’s a fairly smart take on…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (275 pages). This was a super fast read (I read it in about 4 hours) because it was so totally engrossing. If you can get past the 1939-style casual racism (and to be honest, it would take me out of the story for a moment whenever it came up), I would definitely…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHi @internrachel @julia1!
I’ve read more books! My girlfriend calls it an addiction but I don’t believe her.
Today I read The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff (206 pages), which is one of my summer reading books and was absolutely amazing. I love Tobias Wolff and have read several of the stories in the collection before, but he continues to wow…[Read more]
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Oops! I forgot one! I also reread 4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. It’s a play and it’s only 43 pages, but it’s amazing and postmodern and about depression and mental illness and I absolutely love it. I probably read it at least once every few months.
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Ooh, I liked Rant. Invisible Monsters is my all time favorite of Palahniuk’s, although Fight Club is a close second. I found that I didn’t enjoy many of his later novels, until Rant came along. It’s a total mind fuck and I loved the categorizing of people by Day/Night. Very inventive story.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished Dyke Life: A Celebration of the Lesbian Experience edited by Karla Jay (361 pages). This is a collection of essays by lesbians covering all kinds of different aspects of lesbian life, from conceiving or adopting children to explorations of butch/femme gender coding to caretaking roles taken on by lesbians. I…[Read more]-
The description of this book reminds me of “Persistence: All Things Butch and Femme” which is a collection of essays edited by Ivan Coyote. Anyone who likes “Dyke Life” should totes check it out.
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Yes, I’ve heard of that book! It looks very interesting and I already have it on my Paperback Swap wish list.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I finished the Great Gatsby and wasn’t best impressed whilst I was reading it, but became kind of fond of it towards the end. I imagine most people here are American and had to read it in high school so I won’t bore you by talking about it.
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Sorry, that first sentence makes little to no sense. What I meant to say was, I didn’t really like the book until it was almost over. I might enjoy it more if I read it again.
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What did you think of Fitzgerald’s writing? What made you initially dislike it? I read it a few months ago and love to talk about it!
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It was difficult to get into at first because I couldn’t really see what it was meant to be about other than the upper classes being ridiculous. Then when I was nearer to the end it seemed it was about Gatsby’s dreams and how he’d tried to make something of himself but failed in almost everything important. It made more sense to me at that point.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agohello bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1
i finished reading ‘the portrait of a lady’ by henry james, 637 pages, including an introduction read afterwards. mainly read on the train again. i have realised it may in fact be possible to read too much, i was getting burned out for a while there but once i hit the 2nd half of the book i breezed right…[Read more] - Load More