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hannah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI recently finished reading The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (329 pages) and Bossypants by Tina Fey (275 pages). Basically: I read The Age of Innocence a few years ago, loved it, decided to try out some more Edith Wharton and ultimately needed to take a break halfway through with Tina Fey. There were a few things I didn’t love about House of…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 another brief break from ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (I will finish it this week!). Bought ‘Fun Home’ by Alison Bechdel, 232 pgs (but counts as 116 pgs, graphic novel y’all) today at the Strand because it was half price. So if you live in/near NYC and don’t already own it, its only $7 at the Strand! I’ve read it before, I…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoHi @internrachel, @julia1 – and everyone else. So, last week, I finished Nabokov’s LOLITA (336 pages). I read it once before, about 5 years ago now, but it does warrant a re-read. Is it funny that I see it as a summer book? Probably because I first read it on a hot summer holiday in Spain, but I still see it as a summer read. I guess I don’t…[Read more]
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kakapo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Eep, I’m so far behind on this. Summer has been chaotic and sweaty, but I have managed to read a few more books. The least recent was The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, by Ariel Gore (217 pages). This was a revisit; I originally read the book a few years ago, around the time it came out. Though it led me to one of my…[Read more] -
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Raksha posted an update in the group
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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Raksha posted an update in the group
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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Lisa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI recently finished Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand ( 496 pages). It was a very informative and inspiring read. Hillenbrand made it easy to follow a story full of facts, dates, and names; it read much like a memoir.
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI last read Significant Others by Armistead Maupin (322 pages) and Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (246 pages). Significant Others may be the most enjoyable book in this series that I’ve read so far. This time it introduced “the world’s most beautiful fat woman,” a model named Wren, and a woman-only campground/festival situation called…[Read more]
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Megan posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoOh god, I have been absent for too long! Unfortunately, I have only read one book since my last post which was Tolkien’s Return of The King (385 pages). Since picking up another job (working two now!) the only time I have to read is on my commute to/from Chicago. Anyway! Adored it, as expected. The Houses of Healing was definitely my favorite…[Read more]
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caroline posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I do most of my reading during my morning commute, and I still get a little embarrassed sometimes when I’m reading a graphic novel on the train because I feel like people around me with less discerning taste might think it’s a kids’ book. One time I had one such graphic novel with me when I stopped by my neighborhood liquor…[Read more] -
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Leah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
After remembering why I was never the one to win those elementary school reading competitions because I never remembered to fill them out after reading, I realized I should probably update here, though I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like because I had a brief darth of interesting books to read, and then was back at…[Read more] -
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Jules posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Ack, I’ve gotten ridiculously behind on book club updates. My friend and I made a giant list of books we have to read before we die, so I’ve been doing that — I read Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (320 pages), which was rhapsodic and beautiful and disturbing and devastating, and made me have visions of F. Scott…[Read more] -
Riese posted an update in the group
group for riese to ask people questions about things/information she needs for some post 12 years, 3 months agowhat’s a children’s movie where the man is really dominating to the woman? like tarzan or something, but funnier
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Gaston in Beauty and the Beast?
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toy story woody and bo peep or woody and jessy
lilo and stitch?
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Woody is nice though, right? I’m thinking like old school — the guy could be a villan even
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i donno i thought woody was kind of a dick at first, but yeah he was the good guy at the end. i’ll have to go with carmen’s pick of bluto in that case, he was the ultimate asshole
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I don’t know if it’s a great example or not, but Gaston in Beauty and the Beast comes to mind, even though she resists it pretty hard. Actually, the Beast too, kind of. Stockholm syndrome!
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not a movie but Olive Oyl and Bluto in Popeye
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That’s so weird, when I replied there were no other replies showing up.
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this may be too late, but pete? ..that dude’s full of evilzz..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTVBP-mWnk0
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yo-ren-ishii posted an update in the group
Chicagostraddlers 12 years, 3 months ago
Hey chicagostraddlers, or shall I say chicago bicycle straddlers… Those of you who love to ride, like to ride, or have friends who want you to ride. Even if you haven’t ridden a bike in years. I would like to plan a meet up for a bike ride, preferable on a Sunday. Maybe ride down Lakeshore drive, pack lunches for a picnic. I’m open to any routes…[Read more]
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discospider posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (959 pages). If you’re into the Song of Ice and Fire series, you’ve probably been waiting for this book for a ridiculous amount of years. I definitely enjoyed it, but I was a little frustrated by how many of the characters were pretty much in the same place at the…[Read more]-
I’ve been wondering about RR Martin. Also been looking for a new fantasy/sci fi series to pick up. May look into it!
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I tell everyone the first book can be a little tricky to get through if you aren’t willing to sit through a lot of conversation, but I think the series overall is pretty badass.
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My mom started reading this series recently and she is OBSESSED! Is this the last book in the series? I have a bad feeling that if it’s not, Martin may not actually finish the series. Mom would be devastated.
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It’s not the last, there are at least two more expected. He took a looooooooong time to finish this one, and his fans are pretty freaked out about it. People keep saying ‘don’t pull a Robert Jordan on us’ (Robert Jordan died before finishing the Wheel of Time series), and Martin gets annoyed about that cause Jordan was a good friend of his.
I do…[Read more]
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I am so excited to start these!! I have heard so many good things. I first heard of it because I got sucked into the television adaptation of Game of Thrones (mostly because Sean Bean was in it and I mean its Boromir, come on). When I realized they were books, my heart fluttered.
However, I hope I didn’t poison the experience by seeing the show…[Read more]
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I don’t think so, I think the show is really well done, but I think you’ll still totally enjoy the books, and you’ll probably enjoy getting the kind of details that books can present more easily than shows.
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Maeve posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I read An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin (304 pages) in one sitting, due to really bad cramps and not being able to move. I grabbed it because I remembered liking Shopgirl (though the movie didn’t do anything for me–I think because it creeped me out that Steve Martin cast himself) and it happened to be on display…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
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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