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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi (305 pages), even though I damn well know better than to read triggering books like this when I’m really stressed out and having anxiety attacks like I was today. Brilliant move, self.
I think the fact that this book was so damn triggering is…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Ash by Malinda Lo (264 pages).
So good! So gay! This is a reimagining of the Cinderella (called Ash here) fairy tale, and I’m a sucker for that kind of thing. Lo manages to combine the really recognizable elements of the original tale (the evil stepmother and stepsisters, the ball that she has to rush out of…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI just finished Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende (457 pages).
It follows a woman named Zarité, who was born a slave to the owner of a sugar plantation in Saint-Domingue (Haiti, back when it was still a French colony). The story doesn’t just focus on her, but on a whole cast of characters whose lives intertwine…[Read more]
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it only took you 14 hours to read 457 pages? Dang girl! Did you read it in one continuous sitting? I wish I had that kind of free time to read :(
On another note I love Isabel Allende and I’ve read almost all her novels, but I hadn’t heard of this one, so thanks! Another book to add to my must read list.-
I’ve always been a fast reader, but I had to become lightning fast in grad school just to survive! My program was really, really heavy on the theory, so that meant unreasonable amounts of reading assignments. But I didn’t read all of that book in one sitting. I read about 100 pages the night before, then the next day I took a short lunch break…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim (288 pages).
This traced historical attitudes toward menstruation, as well as the products and medical interventions developed to deal with it, mostly from an American perspective, but with occasional dips into ancient history as well. It…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read Cat’s Claw: A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel by Amber Benson (320 pages). Yes, Tara from ‘Buffy’ is also a writer!
In this book, Cerberus the three-headed hellhound calls in his favor from Callie, sending her to retrieve a wayward soul by the name of Senenmut. At the same time, she’s also trying to retrieve the…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Yeah, it’s me again. To be honest, I’m actually getting a little bored of reading, but I can barely even walk right now, so….
Anyway, today I read American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott (349 pages).Born to a stage mother so horrid even Dina Lohan would say “Wow, maybe you…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read The Clocks by Agatha Christie (257 pages).
A woman who works for a typing agency receives a request asking her to come to a certain house for a transcription job. When she arrives, she finds a murdered man on the floor surrounded by a bunch of clocks. The blind woman who owns the house denies ever calling for…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoToday I read Cybele’s Secret by Juliet Marillier (448 pages).
This is the sequel to ‘Wildwood Dancing’ that I read earlier. In this one, the second youngest sister, Paula, accompanies her merchant father on a business trip to Istanbul. Her father’s secretary falls ill and as a scholar, Paula is the best person to fill…[Read more]
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