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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoAlso, worth a read is Sara Breslor’s great piece on YA lesbian fiction over at Idol Mag: http://idiommag.com/2011/06/teenagers-in-love/
“The more refined these coming-out stories are as instructional tools, the less literary they become, and the less true. It is second nature to judge their politics; it is the responsibility of being an “actual l…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’m reading Autostraddle Pick: If You Follow Me and loving it. I teach English overseas, so I can really relate to the story and the emotions. Not the most engrossing or enthralling story I’ve read, but definitely interesting and worth the time.
The Summer To Read List:
-Bossypants
-Mockingjay
-Never Let Me Go
-Norwegian Wood
-The Year of Magical…[Read more]-
I LOVE THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
it made me sad but also changed my life
—- excited to hear about sweet valley confidential. i wonder if elizabeth will come out
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Yay! Awesome endorsement for YoMT. I’ll buy it as soon as I finish Mockingjay.
My money is on Lila as Sweet Valley’s resident lesbian. She was way too up in Jessica’s business for a platonic frenemy
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I just got If You Follow Me in the mail! Can’t wait to read it.
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I just finished it and loved it. It’s really sad in parts , but overall it was great. There are certain parts of the love storyline that bothered me, so I’m interested to find out what you think of it
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I really liked Never Let Me Go. Looking forward to hearing what you think about it.
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The Handmaids Tale is one of my favorite books of all time! (OF ALL TIME)
Never Let Me Go is excellent as well. The movie trailers looked completely different than how I pictured things in my head. A different tone, coloring, etc. So I never saw the movie but the book is great!-
Yeah I don’t want to see that movie, the trailer looked all wrong.
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Glad to hear it! I watched the movie trailer for Never Let Me Go and wasn’t interested, but have heard such good things about the book. I can’t wait to dive into it!
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If you like Never Let Me Go & haven’t read it already, it’d be worth trying The Remains of the Day too – never have I identified so much with an aging English butler living in the Fifties..! & I agree with everyone else, the film isn’t great – it’s okay, but not great.
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Oh, glad to hear your rec for TRotD, I’ve been kind of thinking about reading it. I read his Artist of the Floating World this winter, which didn’t resonate with me the way Never Let Me Go did, but which nonetheless was interesting.
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Ahem, Idiom Mag not Idol Mag. ‘Scuse me.
thank you for sharing this, ohgee.