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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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Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month ago@internrachel, @julia1
After a bunch of longer books, I decided it was time for some shorter stuff, and so I just finished a couple of short little books– A Mathematician’s Apology, by G.H. Hardy (153 pgs), and The Club of Angels, by Luis Fernando Verissimo (135 pgs).
First, A Mathematician’s Apology. Hardy was a mathematician at Cambridge and…[Read more]-
Hi if you have it set so that you get emails every time someone replies to you, sorry! My html was fucked so I deleted it and I’m replying again.
Your description of that first book, A Mathematician’s Apology, reminded me of something I’ve read along the same lines. It’s clearly influenced by Hardy: A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhar…[Read more]
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Thanks for linking to that Lockhart essay! He perfectly articulates what I think is wrong with math education–how does such a beautiful and interesting subject get turned in to something so boring? I wish I’d had him as a math teacher.
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoOver my vacation, I read Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez (217 pages), Alma Mater, by Rita Mae Brown (260 pages), Getting It by Alex Sanchez (210 pages), and Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (650 pages). These are all books by authors I’ve read other works of and loved. Boyfriends with Girlfriends was great – other Sanchez novels I’ve read…[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 Hello, I Must Be Going by Christie Hodgen (312 pages).
A tomboy named Frankie has a father who is a Vietnam vet who lost his leg in the war. He does a good job masking his pretty severe depression with humor, but it’s still too much for him and he ends up killing himself. This book is about Frankie’s…[Read more]
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Maddie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoOh hello AS book club, it has been a while. Here is what I have read in the meantime, @internrachel and @julia1.
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 864 pages. I quite liked it. Anna was a very complex character, but at times I thought I knew how she felt. And the character Levin – he was practically the main character; the book could’ve been given…[Read more]
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I AM SO IMPRESSED BY YOUR READING. So many books that I’ve been too intimidated to try! (Tolstoy, Joyce). YOU ROCK
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You could totally do it! Tolstoy is totally manageable, just long. I’m not gonna lie, though, Ulysses was a tough one.
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I just got my schedule for my next year of school, turns out I’ll be tackling Anna Karenina in class this fall…
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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoI am so bad at updating, @internrachel and @julia1 . But I made readings don’t worry!!1
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (395 pp)
A dystopian novel, year 2150. The US (now Gilead) is long past population 0, and a totalitarian regime takes over to reorganize society and encourage population growth. Women find themselves (again) without rights,…[Read more] -
Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoHey, guess what you guys! Being in this group won me a BRAND NEW NOOK COLOR!!!1eleventy!
My local library was having a summer reading club for adults where you fill out a short review for every book you read. I thought “Hey, I’m already doing that for Autostraddle, I can just copy what I write for that onto these slips.” So I did and each slip…[Read more]
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agoThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (256 pages) is an international bestseller so no doubt someone else is the group has probably read it and I’d be interested in your thoughts.
The story is that of London-based Juliet Barrows who is trying to write a new book but has writer’s block. She…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 1 month agojury duty can be useful @internrachel and @julia1 , I got to reread ‘The Walking Dead’ graphic novel series up to the 6th book (issue #72, I think) by Robert Kirkman, 848 book club pgs, 1696 actual pgs. As a person who is equally terrified and fascinated by zombies I love this series. I’m stoked that the next hardcover collection is coming out in…[Read more]
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