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cyindigo posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished reading Ash by Malinda Lo(272 pages). @internrachel @julia1
I’ve been meaning to read it ever since Malinda and the other people on afterellen talked about it before it was published. (before i stopped reading ae because i found a site i liked so much better)
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Sarah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just finished Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” (588 pages)- it was bombin’! I love basically every single thing this man writes, but I was really hesitant to start this book, cause the basic plot line of old gods of America battling new gods didn’t appeal to me at all. I really should have known better, the book was fantastically well-written and…[Read more]
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@internrachel @julia1 Oops, forgot that bit!
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I have been wanting to read this book forever! I may push it further up the list now. :D
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Ooh, I prefered Anansi Boys to American Gods. I just felt AG lost its way somewhere in the middle and though it came back again I was disappointed. In contrast to you I loved the premise and, like you, I loved how he pulled in lots of different mythologies. I’m interested to see what they do with the HBO series though (and I hear Gaiman’s going to…[Read more]
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When I heard there was going to be an HBO series, I started flailing with joy so hard I thought I would take flight.
Now you say there’s supposed to be a 2nd AG book?!? It’s like all my birthdays have come at once!
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Yep, he said it on Twitter, I believe, so it may be one of those take it with a pinch of salt things.
In this MTV interview (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1666281/neil-gaiman-american-gods.jhtml) it seems a bit more speculative but he does talk about a “10th-anniversary edition of “American Gods” will also feature more than 10,000 words…[Read more]
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I freaking adore this book! It’s one of my all time favorites. Sometimes, I’ll get to the end and just flip right back to the beginning again because I’m not ready for it to be over.
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fragola posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1
A couple of days ago I finished reading the book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande, 224 pages. It was really good! Pretty short, too, even though my slow ass took forever to read it. Gawande is a surgeon but also has written for the New Yorker in the past and has other best-selling books…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just wanted to drop in and say I LOVE THIS GROUP
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Katherine posted an update in the group
Straddlers of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and those who wish they were 12 years, 4 months agoHey! Any Straddlers in Beijing?
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Liana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Yesterday I finally finished reading “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” I actually liked it more than I thought I would. I had already read the other books and was a bit hesitant to read this one because I thought I’d be bummed out that the series was finally over. I thought the ending to the series was very well…[Read more]
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Leah posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
This week on vacation so far I’ve finished “Seduced by Madness: The Untold story of the Susan Polk Murder Case” (405 pages) and “Flowers for Algernon” (311 pages). “Seduced by Madness” was a fascinating read because it analyzed all the backstory of the murder very well (Brief summary: As a teen, Susan Polk slept with and…[Read more] -
caroline posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel, @julia1
I just finished “Room” by (lesbian! Canadian!) Emma Donoghue, 321 pages. I have so many feelings about this book I don’t even know where to begin. It’s exquisitely written, terrifying, and poignant, and I still wish a little bit that I hadn’t read it. Maybe it was just a little more raw truth than I’m ready to handle these…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1
‘Stargate Atlantis: The Lost’ by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold (308 pages).This is the second book in the “Legacy Series” which follows the series finale of the TV show. It basically picks up where the last one left off. We find out what horrible thing the Wraith have done to Rodney, get into some seriously complicated…[Read more]
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Jamie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1. Brave New Families by Judith Stacey, 328 pgs. The book is a ethnographic/sociological look at two “working-class” postmodern families in the mid- to late 80’s in Silicon Valley. The portraits of the two families were really interesting, the focus was on the matriarchs and included their history with feminism, the influence…[Read more]
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Priya posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1 Today I finally finished Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (229 pages). I say ‘finally’ because I’ve had it since the translation was published in 2009 and I’ve probably stopped and started it more than any other book I’ve tried to read.
The story is told by Helen, an 18-year old in hospital for anal fissure. Her parents are…[Read more]-
I’ve also decided I’m going to finish two other books I’ve been stuck on for a while.
One is ‘The Accidental’ by Ali Smith. I adored Girl Meets Boy and Like but just find The Accidental too hard to get into (I’ve been reading it since about March…), I only have about an eighth of it left though.
The other is ‘Alexis’ by Marguerite Yourcenar…[Read more]
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Krystle posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel, @julia1 ! Just finished Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” (312 pages, including afterword). Food is powerful, intoxicating, and something that I am slightly-obsessed with and passionate about. I respect Bourdain, as his passion for food and the dirty, whirl-wind side of the “biz” is…[Read more]
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel and @julia1 Today i’m going to start a book called Gideon by Russell Andrews, with it’s 466 pages. I’m hoping to get it all read by tomorrow or midday thursday. I’m sure what its about, but i’ll be keeping you two posted.
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Liana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months ago@internrachel @julia1 My summer started May 24th. I’ve read 5 books since then, but do they all count?
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i really liked Ash, too! it was refreshing to read a queer YA book where being queer wasn’t the main conflict. in fact, it wasn’t even a conflict at all. it was just part of life, like DUH THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.
yes! imagine if the world was like that. there should be more books written this way. (if anyone knows of others, i’d love to read them)