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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoOkay you guys. I’m between books, and I need a recommendation. Something with lots of feeeeelings. Ready? Go!
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoAlso, worth a read is Sara Breslor’s great piece on YA lesbian fiction over at Idol Mag: http://idiommag.com/2011/06/teenagers-in-love/
“The more refined these coming-out stories are as instructional tools, the less literary they become, and the less true. It is second nature to judge their politics; it is the responsibility of being an “actual l…[Read more] -
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI’m reading Autostraddle Pick: If You Follow Me and loving it. I teach English overseas, so I can really relate to the story and the emotions. Not the most engrossing or enthralling story I’ve read, but definitely interesting and worth the time.
The Summer To Read List:
-Bossypants
-Mockingjay
-Never Let Me Go
-Norwegian Wood
-The Year of Magical…[Read more]-
I LOVE THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
it made me sad but also changed my life
—- excited to hear about sweet valley confidential. i wonder if elizabeth will come out
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Yay! Awesome endorsement for YoMT. I’ll buy it as soon as I finish Mockingjay.
My money is on Lila as Sweet Valley’s resident lesbian. She was way too up in Jessica’s business for a platonic frenemy
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I just got If You Follow Me in the mail! Can’t wait to read it.
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I just finished it and loved it. It’s really sad in parts , but overall it was great. There are certain parts of the love storyline that bothered me, so I’m interested to find out what you think of it
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I really liked Never Let Me Go. Looking forward to hearing what you think about it.
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The Handmaids Tale is one of my favorite books of all time! (OF ALL TIME)
Never Let Me Go is excellent as well. The movie trailers looked completely different than how I pictured things in my head. A different tone, coloring, etc. So I never saw the movie but the book is great!-
Yeah I don’t want to see that movie, the trailer looked all wrong.
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Glad to hear it! I watched the movie trailer for Never Let Me Go and wasn’t interested, but have heard such good things about the book. I can’t wait to dive into it!
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If you like Never Let Me Go & haven’t read it already, it’d be worth trying The Remains of the Day too – never have I identified so much with an aging English butler living in the Fifties..! & I agree with everyone else, the film isn’t great – it’s okay, but not great.
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Oh, glad to hear your rec for TRotD, I’ve been kind of thinking about reading it. I read his Artist of the Floating World this winter, which didn’t resonate with me the way Never Let Me Go did, but which nonetheless was interesting.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoThis is great because I am skipping the June pick for my real-life bookclub, because it’s stupid chick lit
So I’m reading The Help instead, and I just finished Room (amazing)-
Emma Donoghue? I read about that book and it looked super interesting, and I have a book of her short stories sitting in my stack of unread books, so you’ve encouraged me to read that. yays
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I also thought Room was amazing.
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I loved The Help :) seriously good book. It was not my usual genre, but I’m recommending it now to anyone who’ll listen…READ THE HELP, LADIES
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i’ve been on the waiting list for the help at my library for going on 6 weeks now. ridiculous! i hear its an easy read though so i can break in the middle of a book … read it.. and go back to the original one when it becomes available
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agodude this is the answer to my prayers. just hit up the library and couldn’t find a single book that interested me– they were all either smut written by desperate women or boring-ass thrillers about thirty year old men. so i will be diligently following up on all your suggestions.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agotoday i started reading a.m. homes’ ‘this book will save your life’, with extremely realistic doughnuts on the cover. so far it’s been very easy to read. i also have hemingway’s ‘men without women’ and middlemarch in my library bag.
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a blog reader back in the day kept trying to make me read “this book will save your life” because i really like AM Holmes and have read most of her other books, but i just couldn’t get into it to save my life (HAHAHA!) but then i modeled through it and slowly my opinion changed and by the end i just loved the fuck out of it.
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I am struggling with This Book Will Save Your Life, despite my usual love of AM Homes. Thank you, you have inspired me to dust it off again :)
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yeah at the start i think my feeling was like ‘oh great another bleak middle-aged rich guy crisis story’, like rick moody/brett easton ellis/etc, but the plot actually gets more interesting as you go on. you just have to get there. let me know how it goes!
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i definitely had that feeling at the beginning as well, but it’s starting to get good
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alicia posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoi just started erik larson’s “in the garden of beasts” i’m only about 50 pages in but already i’m excited. it’s based on an american family who move to germany at the beginning of hitler’s reign. he also wrote “devil in the white city” which if you haven’t read i highly recommend if you enjoy nonfiction in a novelistic style
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 4 months agoI just started reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and I’m already more than halfway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius because I just really like it. There’s like, a stream of amusingly neurotic jibber jabbering that lasts for what seems like a really long time, because a lot has happened in the book, but has rea…[Read more]
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i remember when this book came out and my friend jake was like “marie you have to read this book, the narrator’s parents die and he auditions for The Real World” and I was like SOLD! and then i read it and it was so good and then my brother read it and it was so good and then it became a thing and everybody read it which is good because it’s SO GOOD
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I love how he gets you to join in on him making fun of himself, and then breaks your heart and blows your mind, and then does all of that all over again. I feel like I’m gushing. I also feel like my brother would like it too, and I should go proselytize it and turn it into a thing with all my people.
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I loved this book too
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i know this book is good because i didn’t want to like it at all (straight self-involved white guy who talks about himself a lot) but i couldn’t help it.
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