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Lisa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’d never read Rubyfruit Jungle (246 pages) by Rita Mae Brown and when I saw it mentioned in an article here I went to my local library and promptly read it in a night. It was kind of a refresher for me on the lack of women’s rights and bigotry in the 60’s. The main character, Molly and her fellow cast gave a face to the oppression of women, which…[Read more]
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Jules posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust finished reading the copy of Haruki Murakami’s new novel After Dark that I found at the library. This books made me feel lots of feelings — not as many feelings as Kafka on the Shore did, but still tingly, creepy feelings, one instance of almost-crying feelings, some chuckles, some rage, and, ultimately, feelings of warmth and love.…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just now I finished a very good book called Bad Girls of Japan eds. Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (240 pages).
I’ve had this in ebook form on my laptop for so long I forget how I got it or why. A few nights ago I was cleaning out some old files and came across it and decided to read it for a bit and I’m glad I did!It’s a…[Read more]
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mon posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agohello again bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1, and other personages.
i am so tired. further to my last missive i have finished reading ‘middlemarch’ by george eliot. 838 pages read chiefly on the train. i would say that this novel has the greatest number of fully realised characters and interwoven family histories that i have ever read. many…[Read more] -
Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHi guys! So I just finished Brett Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero, 208 pages.
I totally thought that all of the hype about it being “disturbing” or really in any way exceptional or exceptionable was mostly bull until somewhere around the last fifty pages. At first it really just seemed like another “drug novel” or “book that’s…[Read more]
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
OK so I read another GRAPHIC NOVEL… “The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For” by Alison Bechdel, and that’s 416 pages. Or 208 in comic years. Anywhat.
I remember being a little baby gay, and in high school my also queer best friend and I would always be on the lookout for the free gay weekly newspapers that would sometimes…[Read more] -
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Trucy posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 So I finished Fingersmith (582 pages) a couple of days ago and I’ve been trying to think of what I could possibly say besides “Holy shit!” which is what I said about 500 times while reading this. I don’t want to say anything more because I don’t want to spoil it but it’s pretty much flawless and will keep you up all night (in…[Read more]
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 I read The IHOP Papers because I am behind the times like that and my hold at the library took a long long time. This book made me feel ok about my life being sort of a mess and but it also made me frustrated that I can’t save $5000. I hated Irene so much but I also totally get what it’s like to be infatuated with the idea of…[Read more]
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Virginia Seymour posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoUpon my overly pro-lesbian mother, I read “What It’s Like to Live Now” by Meredith Maran. Through 335 pages, she basically comes to realization and understanding in her life and faces the fact that she can’t control and change everything she’d like to in the world. Despite the sometimes scary accounts of breast cancer, aids, shootings, etc, the…[Read more]
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Liana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Today I finished reading “Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me.” It’s supposed to be a collection of hilarious things that happens when Chelsea lies to people, but not every chapter (especially towards the end) was entertaining. I could tell when a contributor had never really written because they just went on and on about…[Read more]
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Rose posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHey, anyone who is into Russian writers and reading any book by them this summer, join our group! http://www.autostraddle.com/groups/russian-lit-club/
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Brianna Woolever posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoButter face is a short story book about a girl who was born with a facial deformation and has no self confidence and meets a boy at the diner she works at. She ends up falling for her and he is forced to talk her to a dog dinner where they bring ugly dates. She finds out and ends up going but because of it she learns to cope with her insecurities…[Read more]
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Brianna Woolever posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finished reading breakers passion. Just a hot steamy book. I have a think for older women so the whole time while reading breakers passion its like i am reading my own fantasy about a woman who is lost in love while on vacation in Hawaii. This book is just about letting go of everything. Life, work, and the past and just being in the present and…[Read more]
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI finished two books this week. ”The Piano Teacher” by Janice Y.K. Lee (326 pages) took place in Hong Kong between 1941 and 1951. The book followed one man and his involvement with two different women- one affair during the war and one affair after. The stories of the two affairs intertwined in a somewhat shocking and very dramatic way. The nov…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel (i almost wrote ubtern, stupid misplaced fingers!) and @julia1, another book down! Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display by Carla Yanni, 199 pgs. This was a totally pleasant, quick read focusing on institutions of natural history built in the UK from 1830-1890’s with a little about modern natural history…[Read more]
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Probably the best lesbian novel ever written in my opinion. Rita Mae Brown is wonderful.
I would have never guessed that she was the author thatt wrote the “cat” mysteries I used to see when I worked at a bookshop. But it was a definitely a great read. Have you read her other works?