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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just finished Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman (432 pages).
Wow. I knew looting was a huge problem and that during colonialism wholesale ransacking of antiquities was a major activity all over the world, but I had no idea the extent to which museums were, and still are to…[Read more]
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This sounds like an interesting book! It reminds me of when I went to the British museum, and was pretty disgusted, my friends and I decided they should rename it ‘The Museum of British Imperialism: How to Subjugate the World and Take What You Want’ (not as catchy as the ‘British Museum’, but more apt).
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoLast week, I read a totally charming book called Paint by Number: The How-To Crazy that Swept the Nation by William L Bird. As the title implies, this book deals with the cultural significance and history of paint by numbers. Approximately 40% of this book is pictures which makes this reading experience both informative…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI love to read Stephen King in the summer. It’s like spooky cotton candy for your brain. Like cotton candy made of spider webs, perhaps. Recently I read Salem’s Lot (439 pages). King wrote Salem’s Lot after Carrie and before The Shining, and I think both of those books are better. Salem’s Lot is about the death of a small town, and about vampire…[Read more]
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I still love ‘The Stand’ with a passion. Speaking of spooky cotton candy for your brain, I’ve been watching that TV show ‘Haven’ on the SciFi Channel. It’s cheesy fun. It was based on King’s book ‘The Colorado Kid.’ Have you read that one? Is it any good?
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Nope, I haven’t read The Colorado Kid. I also haven’t read The Stand. It’s a major hole in my Stephen King appreciation! I know I need to read it because now I’ve received 2 recommendations-you and my housemate both love it (my dad recommends it as well but he doesn’t count).
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I read Running With Scissors (302 pages) after A Walk in the Woods. Augusten Burrough’s memoir is funny and a little bit horrifying. I’m not sure where to begin with this book. Burroughs relates his story objectively and in great detail. His tone is never judgemental. It seems he tells readers just the facts and leaves us…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I have been reading a lot these past 2-3 weeks, so I’m going to post several reviews today and tomorrow.
Right after I read The Road, I read A Walk in the Woods (274 pages), by Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods was an interesting choice to follow The Road because both books are about journeys, but apart from that they c…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I’ve just finished up The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. It was a good read though sometimes a bit hard to grasp with all the french being thrown around and the lack of an actual plot. But besides that I enjoyed it very much -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI finally finished some books, @internrachel, @julia1!! (Warning: This is going to be a pretty long post.)
I’ve bought a lot of books in the last month or so, but I’ve got this new girl who’s been distracting me so I haven’t had as much time to read. (Surprisingly, she has, and I don’t know how she’s doing it.)
Anyway, first off, although I…[Read more]
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I read ‘Cunt’ not too long ago. It was great! It really is one of those that impacts your thinking pretty directly. I even tried to do that whole “Look at the moon every night and see how your cycle lines up” thing, but it rained for NINE WEEKS straight when I started doing that, so I never did get in the habit of looking at the moon.
Wow, I…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoDesperate for new lesbian literature, I read She Loves You, She Loves You Not… by Julie Anne Peters (278 pages). When I checked it out, I wondered if I only read Julie Anne Peters novels because I knew they were there. I actually really enjoyed this one, though. It’s about a girl who goes through a complicated relationship with another girl -…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I read Mortals, by Norman Rush (712 pgs), because I LOVED his first book, Mating. Mortals didn’t disappoint at all.
The main character of the book, Ray Finch, is a Milton scholar and CIA spy in Botswana. He lives there with his wife, Iris, whom he totally adores.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
In the past week I finished a couple of books. The first was The Professor’s House by Willa Cather (283), which mainly focuses on a Professor’s increasing sense of distance from his family, and his relationship with Tom Outland, who was fiancé of his daughter and his protégé before he died. I have to admit that I was a bit di…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoThis morning I finished Any Human Heart by William Boyd (512 pages). I’ve had this for ages and finally decided to pick it up after several recommendations and watching the Channel 4 mini-series earlier in the year.
Any Human Heart is about the life of Logan Mountstuart – or perhaps even the many lives of Logan…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
Finished Name All the Animals, by Alison Smith (352 pages). I found this book through one of Autostraddle’s many posts about books we should read. It was really well written and sad and hopeful at the end. It’s about the author’s high school years, the death of her brother, and her first love and coming out.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus #5 (368 pages, 184 in Book Club Pages).
I really liked this volume. The art is great and the stories were really good. This one has the only story featuring Faith in the comics (until Season 8, that is), which was written by Jane Espenson, who I adore. There was also a really…[Read more]
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