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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agohello bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1 et al.
i just finished reading julian barnes’ collection of short stories, ‘pulse’ (212 pages). i read it partially on the train, in bed and just now at my desk. overall i would rate it as merely ‘ok’, there were a lot of words and the writing was pretty loose for short stories. there was a lot of…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just read Water for Elephants (350 pages) by Sara Gruen and If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous (384 pages). I liked Gruen’s book because it had wonderful and vibrant characters, an interesting historical setting (Depression-era), and all the drama of being part of a circus. The book starts with a murder and then goes back and explains what…[Read more]
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I just read Water for Elephants this weekend (Sara Gruen, 350 pgs). I found it to be a quick, easy, and enjoyable read. I really liked the historical photographs of circuses sprinkled throughout (also, the Dr. Seuss quote at the beginning). I liked the parts set in the nursing home and it caused me to reflect on the incresing infantilization of…[Read more]
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