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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus #3 (302 pages, 151 in Book Club Pages). Volume #2 was already checked out from the library, so I just skipped to the next one.
Because these comics were collected and reprinted in the order in which the stories take place in-‘verse rather than chronological publishing order,…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus #1 (312 pages, so 156 in Book Club Pages).
This is the first volume in the complete collection of the Buffy comics that they had going while the show was still airing. I love Buffy and I love comics, so I don’t know why I haven’t read these before. They were having a used book…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just read Sure of You by Armistead Maupin (262 pages) over the past couple days. Possible spoiler alert: I feel like the characters were generally a little different here – Michael less into Gay Politics (compared to his lover), Mary Ann more selfish, D’orothea… since when does she want/need to open a restaurant? Also… was this really going…[Read more]
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Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I’m probably the last person on Autostraddle to read Eileen Myles’ Inferno (271 pgs), so I won’t bother going in to the details of what the book’s about.
I probably should have been tipped off by the subtitle (“A Poet’s Novel”) that this wasn’t going to be an ordinary book, but I guess I wasn’t paying attention, because I…[Read more]-
“Then I read the section of the book where she talks about how stupid it is that people want poems to ”make sense,” and I felt stupid for wanting her book to make more sense.”
Ooh, I don’t think I should read this book then. I think I be frustrated and confused by this book too. And then I would get mad when I got to that part you men…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI finished Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier (544 pages).
I was going to read the final Vampire Diaries book, but my mom gave me this yesterday because she knows how much I like Marillier’s books. This one is about Eyvind, a young viking man from Norway, who grew up with and became blood brothers with a strange boy named…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI actually got around to reading Valencia by Michelle Tea (202 pages)! I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time but no library around me had it so I finally just bought it. I have to say that I don’t really like informal writing or stories that involve lots of drugs. I know. It’s just not for me. It is a memoir and not idealized or…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI actually got around to reading Valencia by Michelle Tea (202 pages)! I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time but no library around me had it so I finally just bought it. I have to say that I don’t really like informal writing or stories that involve lots of drugs. I know. It’s just not for me. It is a memoir and not idealized or…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 Finally finished Julie Burchill’s Sugar Rush last night – it’s 208 pages. It’s a teen book but was also very graphic at some pointd in terms of its language. I’ve only seen a couple of episodes of the TV show but as far as I can tell it’s a bit different.
Kim moves from her posh school to the local ‘scuzzy’ school where…[Read more]-
I read that when I was about 14 (13?), I think that’s about the age you can actually enjoy it at.
Sugar’s a weird character if ever there was one, so is Kim’s mother. Burchill says she only wrote it in 10 afternoons and it shows.
It surprises me that Julie Burchill writes for a respectable newspaper like the Independent. Maybe I’m being unfair…[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 I finished ‘The Edible Woman’ by Margaret Atwood, 301 pgs, and it was. so. good. Oh man, I cannot believe how good it is. Marian, the main character, is just so, ugh, so exactly real even though she goes through a ‘crisis’ that seems completely unreal. Whether you choose to believe she’s going through some kind of mental…[Read more]
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Hi, just some more Atwood recommendations really, my favourite Atwood books though my absolute favourites are Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Penelopiad. Seeing as you liked ‘The Edible Woman’ I’d also recommend Life Before Man which is different to the others I’ve mentioned in that it doesn’t have a sci-fi/fantasy twist but is very…[Read more]
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I loved the Handmaid’s Tale. Another Atwood favorite of mine is “The Robber Bride”
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Missy posted an update in the group
Shystraddlers 12 years, 2 months ago
so. it’s been a long time since i’ve logged in. i’ve been having some problems & not dealing with them very well. miss the groups we got going here, though, so…back i come.
i’m actually working through a traumatic thing that happened last year. my counselor is having me journal about it and then share parts of it during our sessions. up to…[Read more]-
I get your feelings. I’ve had to move back to my tiny isolated hometown for the summer and it’s causing me to avoid leaving the house as much as possible, including avoiding friends and drinking a whole lot to try and forget where I am. I think journaling is probably a helpful thing for this… also hugs! Here, have a consensual and platonic…[Read more]
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thank you, @kimbit. *hug* it takes so much energy to make an effort to be social. sometimes it’s just not there to draw on. i’m comforted by the fact that my friends understand things are tough at the moment.
…and i’m sorry to hear that you’re not having a very good summer. i hope you get to go back to living in a place that you enjoy and feel…[Read more]
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i know how you feel; i’m going through something somewhat similar at the moment, where it’s really hard to want to be in other people’s company unless they’re really close friends (and hence less effort) – but things do get better. hang in there :) i’d also agree with what kimbit suggested, writing or some other form of expressing yourself…[Read more]
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thanks for that, @christine. *hugs* to you, too.
*begins jackson pollock series – paint f-ing EVERYWHERE!*
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rock on 8)
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Vampire Diaries: The Fury by LJ Smith (285 pages).
Still cheesy, still fun. It ends on a surprising down beat, which is kind of unusual for a YA book. I don’t think this was intended to be a 4 book series and it was supposed to end here. I’m actually glad she did write the 4th one because it’s my favorite in…[Read more]
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discospider posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1 I just finished Asimov On Science Fiction, by (obviously) Isaac Asimov (300 pages). It was a collection of essays from various places that he published over the years on the topic of science fiction: what it means, popular authors, film vs. books, and the history of the field. I enjoyed it, but I’d read quite a few of the e…[Read more]
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have you ever read “The Secret History of Science Fiction” ed. by James Patrick Kelly? http://amzn.to/pQjbun it’s a collection of the best of the least known sci-fi works that defined the genre – “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “Descent of Man” by T. C. Boyle, “Homelanding” by Margaret Atwood, and a great many others.
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I haven’t, thanks for the recommendation! I’ve read a couple of the stories in it, but it still seems worth checking out.
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
So, I finished the book I mentioned briefly at the end of my last post, The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (317). This came highly recommended by a friend; it’s about two different schools, one a music school and one a theatre school. At the music school, an underage girl is sleeping with her teacher, and it becomes an abuse s…[Read more] -
Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
After a string of good books, I finally read one that I didn’t like. I wanted to read Next, by James Hynes (308 pgs) because all the reviews said things like, “This book is great, and Something happens at the end that we can’t tell you about, but it’s what makes the book great.” How could you resist a mystery like that?
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle by LJ Smith (278 pages).
Still cheesy, still fun. Elena is way brattier and Stephen is more Angel-like in his angst than I remember. TV!Elena and TV!Stephen are way cooler.
So at the end of the book, Elena is killed by Katherine and becomes a vampire. I have no idea if…[Read more]
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