Oh hello AS book club, it has been a while. Here is what I have read in the meantime, @internrachel and @julia1.

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 864 pages. I quite liked it. Anna was a very complex character, but at times I thought I knew how she felt. And the character Levin – he was practically the main character; the book could’ve been given his name as a title instead – was very real, and it was easy to relate to him.

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 759 pages. I finished this in the dark theatre by cell phone light 10 minutes before the movie started.

3. Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America, 416 pages. I had so many feelings about this book, I wrote my own story on my blog, which can be accessed at WordPress (Terms of Enqueerment) if anyone is so inclined.

4. Hellfire and Damnation by Connie Wilson, 150 pages. Horror stories. Not scary enough, in my opinion. I met the author and she was one interesting lady.

5. The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar, 275 pages. Weird, weird, odd, weird. I hated all of the characters. Also kind of hated the book.

6. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi, 305 pages. An excellent read. Portia is so honest about her struggle with anorexia and coming out. This book touched me on a personal level. I found it to be incredibly inspirating and encouraging.

7. Ulysses by James Joyce, 647 pages. There’s no way I can get my thoughts in order to write a review about this book. I’m not even sure how I felt about it.