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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI have a new favorite author: Vendela Vida. She’s fantastic! I love love love her books. I just finished “Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name” (240 pages) and it was so great. I can’t really talk about it at all because I don’t want to give away the plot, but you (everyone) should go read it. I also read Caroll Spinney’s book “The Wisdom of…[Read more]
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoA couple days ago I finished “The Lovers” by Vendela Vida (240 pages). Vida is a really fantastic author, this is the second book of hers that I’ve read. This book was about a woman who travels to Turkey (where she honeymooned 25 years ago) after her husband dies. The book tells of her journey, both emotionally and physically, to relive and…[Read more]
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mon posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agogreetings bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1.
i just finishing reading ernest hemingway’s collection of stories, ‘the snows of kilimanjaro’, 137 pages read at my desk and on the train. it was quite good. the 2nd half of the collection mainly concerned one character, nick, and i never know what to think when a character recurs in an otherwise…[Read more] -
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] -
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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mon posted an update in the group
Classical Music Fans 12 years, 3 months agooh my god i have always been a classical musician (of the non-professional variety) but have only in the last few months realised how good opera is! trouser roles, anyone? so queer and awesome, who knew?
to wit: der rosenkavalier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PyM-9ihoDM-
I am an opera junkie, so don’t get me started… but on the subject of trouser roles, I love Cherubino and learned his “Voi, che sapete” when I was taking voice lessons! And one of my friends is singing as him in a production of Figaro with the North Czech Philharmonic.
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omg. i went to see figaro in copenhagen, and crushed severely on cherubino.. (she) just had so much swag.. daym..
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here, she play seste in giulio cesare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDAks3MgKps&feature=autoplay&list=PL1359BD5C10A339D7&index=9&playnext=8-
*plays sesto.. ahem..
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Ah, Cherubino <3 Check out the baroque hotness in http://youtu.be/-26AS6DhHbY
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And I don’t get what it is about trouser roles, I am generally into femmes but when I see operas with trouser roles in them I always find the women in those really hot
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