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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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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Ooo Valencia is one of my favorite books, like of all time. If you want to give Michelle Tea another shot, you might like The Chelsea Whistle more. It has less drugs and more structure.
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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, 3 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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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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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AutoChat!!! 12 years, 3 months agoI guess i’ll find no one on now lol… Different time zones!!!
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 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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