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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoHas anyone read the Room by Emma Donogue. I just started reading it after it having great reviews but it seems a little slow and sad, not sure whether to continue. Any recommendations here?
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I haven’t read it, but several people on a message board I go to called Snarkfest read it and were raving over it. These particular people have pretty good taste I think, so I wanted to give it a go. Apparently, a few of them felt it lagged a bit in the beginning as well, so maybe it picks up?
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Please continue. It’s such a good read. A bit depressing at some parts yet uplifting at the same time. You won’t regret reading it :)
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Strongly agree with @Zulu, with the caveat that we can’t know what may be particularly unsettling/press buttons for you… so stop if you are feeling that you need to stop… but I genuinely LOVED this book. Donoghue works her way pretty thoroughly through the possibilities of the situation, so there’s some intensity, but she does it with real…[Read more]
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I’m half way through at the moment on your advice, I think I will have to keep reading. I just find myself so haunted by it that I have trouble sleeping (though to be honest I read it just before bed). However I wake up in the morning grateful I’m not in that situation.
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Michigan Lesbogays 12 years, 5 months ago
In the spirit of all things Michigan-y, I’ve decided to share this messenger bag I bought from a friend today: http://gonzoronin.tumblr.com/post/5488093084
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months ago“The Hours” by Michael Cunningham — it’s a rewriting of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and once I got over my initial feeling that it was sacrilegious to attempt to copy the perfection that is Woolf, I really enjoyed it. It is Autostraddle-relevant because it has been rewritten around the AIDs epidemic in New York in the 1980s, whereas in “Mrs…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoReading George Elliott (a female author who wrote under a mans name for sexism purposes). She’s so, so great.
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I completely adore George Eliot. Have you read “Romola” or “Silias Marner”? They are both excellent and less well known than “Middlemarch” or “The Mill on the Floss.”
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I haven’t personally, but only because I haven’t had time yet. Silas Mather was an option for an outside reading project in English recently…
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That’s the problem about great books — there’s never enough time to read all of them.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoAlright, I generally find myself opposed to reading books once they start to become big mainstream hits and turned into movies and stuff just because I’m weird like that. However, I recently finished reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and it was so, so good. I couldn’t put it down. Unless you just randomly know a lot about the circus, the…[Read more]
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I read Water for Elephants when it first was published, and I really liked it. I think I’ll pass on the movie though- the last movie I saw with Reese Witherspoon in it made me never want to watch another one of her films ever again!
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I’m afraid of all the Twilighters following Robert Pattinson around. I might watch it once it hits DVD. It depends on reviews I guess, because I hate seeing movies that don’t do the books justice.
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Good god, twilight fangirls. I forgot. I was going to go see it in theatres after I read the book, now I’ll probably just illegally download it.
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Now, I can say from experience that going with a friend who also hates twilight fangirls and then making fun of them together during the movie can be a pretty good defense.
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Michigan Lesbogays 12 years, 5 months ago
Anyone in the UP? ANYONE WHO IS NOT A TREE OR A DEER.
No but really, I would hang out with a lesbogay tree at this point so it’s cool if you’re a tree.
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Hey, so if I were to move to Australia, or relocate there for a bit anyway, what states have the most gay friendly legislation, and what cities have high concentrations of gaywads?
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You should probably just head straight for Newtown, Sydney really ;) This site http://wearitwithpride.com.au/ is pretty fabulous also. Enter your state/the state you’re looking at heading to and a few demogrpahic details and it will give you a run down of the relevant legislation.
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Sounds excellent. I might also consider Woolloomooloo for the novelty of living in the most hilariously named place ever. Perhaps that is the opiates talking, but I seriously can not stop giggling about Woolloomooloo. Definitely Sydney. Newtown is the gayborhood there, right?
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Well, if its novelty you’re after, Kangarilla, Iron Knob and Boing Boing should probably be on your list as well… Newtown is most definitely the gaybourhood.
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Newtown is a gayborhood, but also try Glebe, Paddington and Darlinghurst… I like Newtown’s atmosphere more though, some of the other places can be a bit super fashionable, whereas Newtown feels like more of any everyone’s welcome mix.
Melbourne is a wonderful city, too, and there are also inner city suburbs with high concentrations of gaywads,…[Read more]
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Woolloomooloo is a tad expensive as it’s in the city. But I just want to say that as someone who has always lived in Sydney’s lower north shore I find it incredibly safe and it has never bothered me to be my gay old self here (but then I am also fairly femme).
Also novelty town names: wogga wogga.
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cindy where are you from on the north shore?
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just near north sydney.
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oh cool, i grew up in mosman!
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According a study I read for uni, the lowest ranking city for homophobia is Melbourne, followed (much to my shock!) by Perth, then Sydney.
I moved to Melbourne from Perth a couple of years ago, and the gayness of the city is such a beautiful thing. Sydney’s also meant to be quite nice, I dont like it so much myself.
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I would love to talk up my city but I can’t, Adelaide is pretty shit in the homo department. My recommendation would be Melbourne, I would live in Brunswick if I could!
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I live in Glebe (Sydney) and it is extremely queer. It’s a little expensive though – I feel like inner city suburbs like Enmore, Stanmore, Marrickville and Leichhardt are better value.
Woolloomooloo is one of the only places in Sydney where I feel concerned about my safety.
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well, hating on canberra (where I live) is a popular pasttime here, but my mother says that it is the lesbian capital of australia. so.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoJude the Obscure via Thomas Hardy… not sure if it’ll measure up quite yet.
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