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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel and @julia1
Hmm, there seem to be several comments about Book Club being over – I hope it’s not. I don’t really want Book Club to ever end. Anyway I’m going to tell you about the book I finished this morning anyway, it was ’How To Be A Woman’ by Caitlin Moran (313 pages).
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI hope summer isn’t completely over @internrachel and @julia1 because I have some books to report on. Like a bunch, I went on a YA kick the past week and the library has been really good about processing my holds fast. Here is the list: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (288 pgs.), Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (336 pgs.), Before I Fall by…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel @julia1 Is the book club over? Anyway I finished On the Road by Jack Kerouac (304 pages), I liked it for all the reasons everyone likes it and hated the misogyny/homophobia.
Also just finished Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff (400…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI just finished Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (336 pages).
This novel was originally written in Icelandic and it’s set in Iceland. A German student at the university in Reykjavik is gruesomely murdered and the family is convinced the police arrested the wrong person, so they send a family employee (who happens to be…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoToday I finished Mary Ann In Autumn by Armistead Maupin (287 pages) and Crush by Carrie Mac (106 pages). Mary Ann In Autumn goes back to the usual multiple perspectives and morbid storylines of the Tales of the City novels, but it did have Jake befriending a Mormon gay man, which was my favorite of the perspectives in the novel. Crush was sort…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel @julia1
Hello book club. Over the weekend, I finished She Bop II by Lucy O’Brien, a 530 page guide to women in music. You should only read this if you have hours and hours of free time and a comfortable pair of headphones; half the fun is listening to all the bands and singers mentioned. The writing style is accessible and…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoHello @internrachel @julia1
I read Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (304 pages) after seeing the film. It is a a fictional story based on a real event that happened in France – when the Gestapo ordered the French police to round up Jewish people in Paris and send them to camps. The story starts with ten-year old Sarah locking up her younger…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoJust finished The Cannibal Galaxy by Cynthia Ozick (162 pgs).
Cynthia Ozick is one of my favorite authors, but this is the first novel by her I’ve read—she mostly writes shorts stories and essays. Even so, this barely counts as a novel—it’s more of a novella, really.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel, @julia1
I just finished Willa Cather’s THE SONG OF THE LARK (313 pages). I’ve been reading a lot of Cather, and this kind of slots in as not-my-favourite (My Antonia) but also not-my-least-favourite (Sapphira and the Slave Girl). I read somewhere that she really liked and was initially influenced by James, and in some ways I thought…[Read more] -
Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoAlll right here we go, lots of reading accumulated from hurricane/power outage/computer not working so I couldn’t post. Read a bunch of new books: She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of Nonbiological Lesbian Motherhood by Amie Klempnauer Miller (236 pages), My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman (232 pages), Wide Awake by David Levithan (221 pages),…[Read more]
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I remember LOVING The Crimson Petal and the White when I read it–but that was 8 or so years ago. Maybe I should reread it, too!
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I forgot quite how long it was… I’ve posted about this book here, but have you read The Apple? It’s a book of short stories about the characters from The Crimson Petal and the White. (Not the same as a nice long novel like Crimson Petal was, but there was no way I could resist more of those characters anyway.)
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I haven’t even heard of The Apple! The Crimson Petal and the White is actually the only Michel Faber book I’ve read, though I guess he’s written a lot. I’ll see if I can get my hands on The Apple…
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoSo I’m all caught up in the reading fever and I am wondering… if the Book Club Situation technically *ends* on the 31st (tomorrow), does that mean we can still post books tomorrow that will be considered or must they be posted *before* the 31st? I’m going to post all the things I’ve been reading lately before I go to bed but I’m sure I’d have…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoSo…recently I read “The Help” by Katheryn Stockett (522 pgs). Mostly I read it because my mom had just read it, and wanted me to read it so we could go see the movie together. It was okay. I enjoyed it. I expected something more, I think.
Also, Intern Grace’s team pick inspired me to re-read Joey Comeau’s “One Bloody…[Read more]
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