@julia1 @internrachel Oh hey, nonfiction. I remember you. It took me like three weeks to get through “Broke, U.S.A” by Gary Rivlin (358 pages) but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t really good. It does mean, however, that stories about payday lending and subprime mortgages are not prime reading material for a morning commute that takes place…[Read more]

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I do most of my reading during my morning commute, and I still get a little embarrassed sometimes when I’m reading a graphic novel on the train because I feel like people around me with less discerning taste might think it’s a kids’ book. One time I had one such graphic novel with me when I stopped by my neighborhood liquor…[Read more]

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I read Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein (the version published back in 1994, not the updated 2010 one) this week – 249 pages. I felt like it might add some breadth to my queer bookshelf, especially given that since I came out I’ve read more lesbian authors than anything else. And of course Kate Bornstein is a lesbian in her…[Read more]

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I just finished “Slammerkin” (384 pages), the second book in a row I’ve read by Emma Donoghue (the first being “Room”). Her prose is terrific and her themes are dark and I’m going to need to read something more lighthearted after this. “Slammerkin” tells the story of a teenage prostitute in 18th-century England for two years…[Read more]

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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]