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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoRecently started Swamplandia! by Karen Russell. So good.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoBest European Fiction 2010 (421 pages) is an anthology I just finished. I feel like if this was the best Europe had to offer, maybe I need to try another continent? Out of the thirty five stories in this book, only three were enjoyable: Stephan Enter’s “Resistance”, Michal Witkowski’s “Didi”, and an excerpt from Andrej Blatnik’s “You Do…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoThis is a weird request, but does anyone have any recommendations for self help-ish books? I don’t normally have much interest in this kind of thing, but I’m in a living situation where I don’t have a lot of people to talk to and could use a little general life guidance from the universe. Self Help Areas of Interest: Being More Zen, Surviving Your…[Read more]
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Eh, self-help really isn’t my thing, but my mom has been reading a book called Quiet Your Mind: An Easy-To-Use Guide to Stop Chronic Worry and Negative Thoughts and Start Living a Calmer Life by John Selby. My mom has been dealing with clinical anxiety and panic disorders for years now, along with borderline compulsive behavior, and she says this…[Read more]
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In terms of Being More Zen, I really liked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig. It’s a memoir and a philosophical novel, and the author seeks the nature of truth especially as it relates to writing, as he takes a 17-day trip from MN to CA on his motorcycle.
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I’ve heard good things about this!
I don’t know if this is quite what you are looking for.. but I am currently reading Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self by Andoea Judith and like it so far!
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Hey everyone. Thanks for the tips! I’ll definitely check out those books- knew I could count on AS for a few ideas. Honestly, I think what I’m looking for is some kind of made up, really extended version of the No Fucks to Give/How to Deal with Non-Traditional Life Courses posts. Katrina should write this book and I will buy it
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoToday I read The Golden Ball and Other Stories by Agatha Christie (279 pages).
I really don’t like Christie’s short storries. The elements I dislike about her writing in longer books aren’t so bad. Like, in ‘The Clocks’ that stupid subplot about Colin Lamb “falling in love” and proposing to a woman he admits several times…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI had to read Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling, 759 pages) again, because I went to the last movie and was all like “What? I don’t remember that!”. I feel like I read it way to fast the first time, this time around I definitely enjoyed it more. And I may have teared up at the last chapter, even though I was…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI have, after a long emotional read, completed Possession by A. S. Byatt (555 pages). It’s about people who study Victorian poets (which is great because I like history/literature/academia), and the love letters they discover were written, and a race to find out what happened. I started out LOVING it, then I kept getting mad at it because it…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months agoI finished this a little while ago, but this summer I read Sue Hubbell’s “A Book of Bees” (177 pgs). It was given to me by a professor as a graduation gift in May and I absolutely loved it.
I’m a beekeeper on an organic farm and Hubbell’s book is definitely among the best honey bee books that I’ve read. She writes about maintaining 300+ colonies…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
I finished Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 415 pages. I had been meaning to read it for ages, really glad I finally got to it. It reminded me much of Kafka and Orwell (one of my favorite writers) and also of the craziness of war as depicted in Slaughterhouse Five, and yeah it was a great read.
Should I read Closing Time?-
I really like Catch 22 and Slaughterhouse 5. I don’t think Closing Time is meant to be all that great, but Something Happened is meant to be very good and some people think it’s even better than Catch 22. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/19/famous-wrong-book-vonnegut-waugh-ishiguro
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Thanks, adding that to my wish list :)
I have Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut) here, haven’t read it yet.
I’m trying to find a balance between reading as many ‘important’ writers as possible, and reading more from the ones I really liked, not just the classics..
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Catch-22 is one of my absolute favorite books of all time. Weirdly enough, I still haven’t read Something Happened, but it’s definitely on my list.
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Yeah I loved Catch-22. Other favorites include Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), For whom the bell tolls (Hemingway) and Slaughterhouse-five (Vonnegut). There seems to be a theme here.. Although my all-time absolute favorite is On the road (Kerouac). Oh I love that book so much.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 2 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Hi, I’ve been moving recently and got to my new flat to find a lovely gift from my penpal. It was Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock. It’s only 48 pages (I know this only counts as 24 because it’s a graphic novel) but I wanted to mention it because it’s wonderful and beautiful and creepy. It did take you away into Griffin…[Read more] -
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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 ago@internrachel @julia1
Yesterday I finished reading Just Kids by Patti Smith. 320 pages. I had it around for a long time and finally picked it up after reading Crystal’s review. I’m nervous to write this post because of the glowing reviews by everyone else on the site, and I think this is the first negative review.
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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 ago@internrachel @julia1
I just finished Obsession by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker (366 pages), which is about Douglas’s experince with the Investigative Support Unit in the FBI and his other experiences in profiling violent criminals, and what lessons the general public can take from his experiences. I was amazed at how often violent offenders are…[Read more] - Load More