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  • Emma posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years 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]

    • Emma replied 12 years ago

      also I read both these books before August 31st so I hope they get counted! Thanks ladies!

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    I 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]

  • Chloe posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago

    Today 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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    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]

  • Priya posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago

    Hello @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]

  • Just 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.
    The book’s about a French Jew, Joseph Brill, who escapes WWII and founds a…[Read more]

  • @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 Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago

    Alll 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]

    • 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!

      • 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.)

        • 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…

  • Chloe posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago

    So 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]

  • Steph posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago

    @internrachel @julia1

    So…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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    Yesterday 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]

  • Sam posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years 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.

    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]

  • Most 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]

  • Chloe posted an update in the group Group logo of Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago

    I 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]

  • I 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.

  • I 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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    Last 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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