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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI’ve never really read the book posts before. The only lesbian book I’ve ever read is Annie On My Mind. I read it in high school, clandestinely, in installments, crouching behind shelves in my school library while waiting for my mom to come pick me up after school–periodically going to the window to check the parking lot, to avoid discovery. I…[Read more]
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I love Annie On My Mind – it was my first legit lesbian book too. I would go to the library and read it in a chair by the window without checking it out, so my parents wouldn’t find it. When I was a freshman in college, I bought it and read it over and over.
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this was my first REAL lesbian book, too (and is still my nostalgic favorite). i sincerely believe that it saved my life.
…and this is why (regardless of circulation statistics), good teen librarians make sure lgbtq books are always in the collection (and that comfy chairs are available to scootch behind shelving). #itsathing…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just spent the past three days reading Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood (376 and 448 pages) . What I liked most about it was the fact that there were no robots, no flying cars, no space highways. It was a hauntingly real and visible image of what lows the world could potentially reach in less than 100 years. Some of the…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished Elie Wiesel’s Night, which i acquired for the summer thanks to one of my professors. At 115 pages, it was a quick read, but obviously pretty depressing. I think I’ve read some Holocaust books that have been more explicit in how graphic they were , but this one still packs a punch. Here’s hoping that the other books the afore…[Read more]
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i remember Night having a huge impact on me when I read it in high school. I picked it up this spring to reread it, but it wasn’t packing the same punch, so i stopped. i decided to leave it as that incredibly impactful book from when i was 14 instead of ruining it with details and grown up analyzing abilities.
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but i still am curious about what i would think now.. i’ve been meaning to read his other books that are related (but fiction instead of memoir, i believe?) Dawn and Day. Anyone read those?
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I first read Night in high school. It touched me deeply, and I remember feeling completely overwhelmed as I was reading it, as if I wasn’t emotionally mature enough to handle it at the time.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoJust wrapped up Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski. which is a 232 page book of selected poems from the years 1955-1973. Some of what Bukowski writes is problematic, but I was impressed by how accessible and relatable he is when he talks about the profane, every day things. I think ”out of the arms…” is one of the most spot…[Read more]
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