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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoYesterday I finished A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (288 pages).
Someone else in this here club read this book and I thought it sounded interesting. And it was! I love stories that weave together, where the main character in one storyline is a minor player in another, and that was what this book was all…[Read more]
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I loved that book.
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was that maybe me? glad you enjoyed it too! maybe I should check out Valente?
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You should definitely check out Valente! The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden and The Orphan’s Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (which are really just one big story broken up into two volumes) are masterpieces of the interweaving storyline thing. So, so good.
Her Prester John books also use that storytelling convention, but since only…[Read more]
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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel @julia1
Just a few short days of summer reading left for me. I snuck in another book as I’ve been gearing up for classes.
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How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?, Moustafa Bayoumi (290 pp).
Through a series of engrossing portraits of young Arab-American Muslims, Bayoumi offers an aptly complicated and conflicted answer to the question…[Read more] -
Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoMost recent book: The Magus, by John Fowles (656 pags).
This book is very weird and very hard to describe. The narrator of the book is a British guy, Nicholas Urfe, who takes a job teaching English at a private boys school on a remote Greek island. On the island, he meets a very wealthy, strange man name Conchis. Urfe, having heard some vague…[Read more] -
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI just read Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (304 pages) and Luna by Julie Anne Peters (248 pages). While I’ve read tons of queer literature, I don’t really know about novels about trans people, but here were two Transgender Teen Novels and I obvs love YA lit so here we go. If anyone has any more recommendations, by the way, that would be awesome.…[Read more]
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Krissy posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI never thought it would happen to me, but it did: I converted to veganism. The books that convinced me to do it were Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr and Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life by Brendan Brazier. Everyone ever should read these books.
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI have read several book lately but have not had time/energy to write about them. And now it feels like it’s looming over me, this is exactly what I used to do in school. It’s like I’ve given myself homework.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoLast week, I read Sister Mischief by Laura Goode. I really wanted to love this book: it’s about girls who love girls who love music. Four girls protest their school administration’s policies through rap. Based on the summary, this should be the best book of the year. But the execution is kind of shallow. Characters are…[Read more]
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dutchdyke posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel @julia1
hi again,
yesterday i finished sunset park by paul auster (308 pages) and i loved it, my favourite auster so far :) -
Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoToday I finished Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger (245 pages) and also read The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt (353 pages). I feel like I saw reviews of Love & Lies on AfterEllen or something a long time ago and looked at it in the bookstore, but decided that Marisol was a bit too outgoing for me and I wasn’t ready to…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel @julia1
It’s been a while since I updated so I have a few to mention…
– Foucault’s HISTORY OF SEXUALITY (vol.1, 176 pages). In this, Foucault refutes the idea of Victorian repressive sexuality and connects sexuality and its discourse to power, but not necessarily in a suppressive manner. I found this pretty interesting and not as di…[Read more]-
I’ve never been that interested in Willa Cather before, but Sapphira and the Slave Girl sounds good! But I take it you like her other books better?
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it’s kind of interesting, but I didn’t think it was a great work. I think I’d still recommend My Antonia or O Pioneers as a starting point, but that’s just because they’re my favourites. But go for Sapphira if you’re interested! It was actually a little hard to find for me, I think my book shop had to order it from the US…
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As far as pure theory books go, Foucault’s are much more readable than most. His ideas are pretty good, too. In grad school, when I was enraged and hating life in general and my Women’s Studies program in particular, seeing Foucault on the syllabus would calm my fury a good deal. He certainly never made me want to punch babies like certain…[Read more]
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Haha, I’ve just started reading some Butler, and I can only handle it by reading about 5-10 pages at a time which is making me a bit sad because normally I read pretty quickly. idk, I like what she says about (older) feminism making assumptions about other cultures and therefore being almost colonialist, but I still feel like I’m going to need the…[Read more]
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Amanda posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI forgot to list the things I’ve been reading. Oops. Other than all of autostraddle, I recently read:
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (232 pages)
This graphic novel was wonderful to read. Filled with references to The Odyssey, Joyce, and approximately a bajillion lesbian books, this is one of my new favorites. Her drawing…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI read Grl2grl: Short Fictions, by Julie Anne Peters (151 pages) and Hello, Groin by Beth Goobie (271 pages). Grl2grl was a short book of really short stories… probably my favorite was the last one about the girls who met at music camp. I think I remember reading an interview with a queer librarian and Hello, Groin was one of her favorite…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI just finished Shadowflame by Dianne Sylvan (360 pages). It *finally* got here after accidentally being sent to my old address, then shipped back to the store, then forwarded to my new address!
It was worth the wait, though :) I realy love the world Dianne Sylvan has created here. Yeah, it’s about vampires, which I’m…[Read more]
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