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Sarah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” (588 pages)- it was bombin’! I love basically every single thing this man writes, but I was really hesitant to start this book, cause the basic plot line of old gods of America battling new gods didn’t appeal to me at all. I really should have known better, the book was fantastically well-written and…[Read more]
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@internrachel @julia1 Oops, forgot that bit!
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I have been wanting to read this book forever! I may push it further up the list now. :D
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Ooh, I prefered Anansi Boys to American Gods. I just felt AG lost its way somewhere in the middle and though it came back again I was disappointed. In contrast to you I loved the premise and, like you, I loved how he pulled in lots of different mythologies. I’m interested to see what they do with the HBO series though (and I hear Gaiman’s going to…[Read more]
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When I heard there was going to be an HBO series, I started flailing with joy so hard I thought I would take flight.
Now you say there’s supposed to be a 2nd AG book?!? It’s like all my birthdays have come at once!
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Yep, he said it on Twitter, I believe, so it may be one of those take it with a pinch of salt things.
In this MTV interview (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1666281/neil-gaiman-american-gods.jhtml) it seems a bit more speculative but he does talk about a “10th-anniversary edition of “American Gods” will also feature more than 10,000 words…[Read more]
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I freaking adore this book! It’s one of my all time favorites. Sometimes, I’ll get to the end and just flip right back to the beginning again because I’m not ready for it to be over.
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fragola posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1
A couple of days ago I finished reading the book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande, 224 pages. It was really good! Pretty short, too, even though my slow ass took forever to read it. Gawande is a surgeon but also has written for the New Yorker in the past and has other best-selling books…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just wanted to drop in and say I LOVE THIS GROUP
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Liana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I finally finished reading “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” I actually liked it more than I thought I would. I had already read the other books and was a bit hesitant to read this one because I thought I’d be bummed out that the series was finally over. I thought the ending to the series was very well…[Read more]
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Leah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
This week on vacation so far I’ve finished “Seduced by Madness: The Untold story of the Susan Polk Murder Case” (405 pages) and “Flowers for Algernon” (311 pages). “Seduced by Madness” was a fascinating read because it analyzed all the backstory of the murder very well (Brief summary: As a teen, Susan Polk slept with and…[Read more]-
I adored Flowers for Algernon. Such a great book once I got used to the writing style. :)
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caroline posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I just finished “Room” by (lesbian! Canadian!) Emma Donoghue, 321 pages. I have so many feelings about this book I don’t even know where to begin. It’s exquisitely written, terrifying, and poignant, and I still wish a little bit that I hadn’t read it. Maybe it was just a little more raw truth than I’m ready to handle these…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1
‘Stargate Atlantis: The Lost’ by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold (308 pages).This is the second book in the “Legacy Series” which follows the series finale of the TV show. It basically picks up where the last one left off. We find out what horrible thing the Wraith have done to Rodney, get into some seriously complicated…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1. Brave New Families by Judith Stacey, 328 pgs. The book is a ethnographic/sociological look at two “working-class” postmodern families in the mid- to late 80’s in Silicon Valley. The portraits of the two families were really interesting, the focus was on the matriarchs and included their history with feminism, the influence…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Today I finally finished Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (229 pages). I say ‘finally’ because I’ve had it since the translation was published in 2009 and I’ve probably stopped and started it more than any other book I’ve tried to read.
The story is told by Helen, an 18-year old in hospital for anal fissure. Her parents are…[Read more]-
I’ve also decided I’m going to finish two other books I’ve been stuck on for a while.
One is ‘The Accidental’ by Ali Smith. I adored Girl Meets Boy and Like but just find The Accidental too hard to get into (I’ve been reading it since about March…), I only have about an eighth of it left though.
The other is ‘Alexis’ by Marguerite Yourcenar…[Read more]
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Krystle posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel, @julia1 ! Just finished Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” (312 pages, including afterword). Food is powerful, intoxicating, and something that I am slightly-obsessed with and passionate about. I respect Bourdain, as his passion for food and the dirty, whirl-wind side of the “biz” is…[Read more]
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I liked it. A little bit too much testosterone, though.
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Agreed. I had to check to see if I grew in chest hair after completions. ;-)
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*completion. Good grief
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 Today i’m going to start a book called Gideon by Russell Andrews, with it’s 466 pages. I’m hoping to get it all read by tomorrow or midday thursday. I’m sure what its about, but i’ll be keeping you two posted.
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Priya posted an update in the group
The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months agoI just want to thank Autostraddle for bringing Andrea Gibson to my full attention (and the rest of the Pure Poetry series too obviously…). Sure I’d heard of her before but did I ever *really* listen?
I got ‘Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns’ this morning and it is so addictive. I keep sneaking peeks at it in my work breaks. She’s just so lyrical. I…[Read more]-
I’m a huge fan of just about everything Catherynne Valente writes, poetry or prose. I got one of her poetry books recently, A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, and it was brilliant. It explores and reinterprets women’s roles in folktale motifs. It’s more fun than I make it sound, I swear ;)
She’s also got this epic poem going online…[Read more]
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Thanks for this. ‘Palimpsest’ is on my ‘to read’ list but perhaps her poetry will be a good place to start. The retelling of folktales and myths sounds like something I’d enjoy.
As for Parker, I like her poetry as well (Symptom Recital is superb!) but I’ve never been able to get into her stories.
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Liana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1 My summer started May 24th. I’ve read 5 books since then, but do they all count?
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel and @julia1, i had just finished Run for Your Life and though it is very interesting, it hadn’t quite reached my favorite book isle (in my head of coarse). Could it have been that it was easy to tell what was going to happen next, most of the time it was.Or the sprinkling of ‘ you got any balls?’ and ‘be a man!’ that made me want to…[Read more]
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Kate B posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoJust finished Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti (270 pages).
It was good, but I got kind of bored in some parts because it kept telling me statistics that I already knew, and there were also some parts I just plain wasn’t interested in. However, the vast majority of the book was fast paced and interesting, full of really interesting and…[Read more] - Load More
