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Arianna posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoIn the past month, I have read more books than in the rest of the year combined. Most of them were YA novels, but good YA novels are a literary step up from fanfiction.
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire & Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
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Randahl posted an update in the group
um. uh. wait. ok. wait. what was the question? ok. um. yeah. wait. what? 12 years, 3 months ago
I think this might be relevant to some people’s interests…or maybe it’s just me. Thought I’d share anyway
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Diana posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI just finished reading The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo (533 pages).
This is such a great book although, at first, it was a bit hard to get into. Once you do get into it though, you won’t put it down. It is a great book to read if you are into psychology. The account of the prison experiment is so…[Read more]-
forgot to mention @internrachel and @julia1
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Dude, I read this way back when in freshman year of high school! I really enjoyed it then but thought it must have been some kind of fever dream because for years I couldn’t find any reference to it. I’ve been meaning to reread it for awhile, the psychology of ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ people is so fascinating!
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bookgrrrl posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’ve been reading two books simultaneously and finished both this weekend, so I’m just going to write about them one at a time.
First, I read Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (636 pages). It was very good! I’ve read two other books by Chabon and this was probs my favorite one of them all. There’s this kind of…[Read more]
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoto @internrachel & @julia1. I have just finished the first Harry Potter book. Very awesome book. I love Dumbledore in the book, but peeves is annoying! About to start reading the second one in a few minutes. :)
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Kelsey posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel & @julia1 I am happy to say tat i am enjoying Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. So much that i’m reading pretty slow to get all of the details, only on page 194 of 309. And everyone is right when they say that the book is way better than the movie! i will finish the book tomorrow, that much i know.
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Lisa posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoI’d never read Rubyfruit Jungle (246 pages) by Rita Mae Brown and when I saw it mentioned in an article here I went to my local library and promptly read it in a night. It was kind of a refresher for me on the lack of women’s rights and bigotry in the 60’s. The main character, Molly and her fellow cast gave a face to the oppression of women, which…[Read more]
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Jules posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoJust finished reading the copy of Haruki Murakami’s new novel After Dark that I found at the library. This books made me feel lots of feelings — not as many feelings as Kafka on the Shore did, but still tingly, creepy feelings, one instance of almost-crying feelings, some chuckles, some rage, and, ultimately, feelings of warmth and love.…[Read more]
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Carmen SanDiego posted an update in the group
um. uh. wait. ok. wait. what was the question? ok. um. yeah. wait. what? 12 years, 3 months ago
is it bad that i laughed like a 3rd grader at the sight of this subway station in Brussels ? http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2296/2344425374_31c637fe03.jpg
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
Just now I finished a very good book called Bad Girls of Japan eds. Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (240 pages).
I’ve had this in ebook form on my laptop for so long I forget how I got it or why. A few nights ago I was cleaning out some old files and came across it and decided to read it for a bit and I’m glad I did!It’s a…[Read more]
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mon posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agohello again bookclubbers, @internrachel, @julia1, and other personages.
i am so tired. further to my last missive i have finished reading ‘middlemarch’ by george eliot. 838 pages read chiefly on the train. i would say that this novel has the greatest number of fully realised characters and interwoven family histories that i have ever read. many…[Read more] -
Kaitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months agoHi guys! So I just finished Brett Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero, 208 pages.
I totally thought that all of the hype about it being “disturbing” or really in any way exceptional or exceptionable was mostly bull until somewhere around the last fifty pages. At first it really just seemed like another “drug novel” or “book that’s…[Read more]
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel @julia1
OK so I read another GRAPHIC NOVEL… “The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For” by Alison Bechdel, and that’s 416 pages. Or 208 in comic years. Anywhat.
I remember being a little baby gay, and in high school my also queer best friend and I would always be on the lookout for the free gay weekly newspapers that would sometimes…[Read more] - Load More