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alicia posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 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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theboattimes posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 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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autoparis posted an update in the group
NYC Autostraddlers 12 years, 5 months agoI think, maybe, we should have some sort of meetup. Maybe in the month of July.
What say yous?
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I’m down!
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Curlew posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoJust finally got started on Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, which I’ve been wanting to read for months now. I’m a couple of Tootsie Pops in. Not sure yet whether I love it. Hated The Corrections when I started it, though, and in the end really REALLY loved it, so, hopeful.
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The Corrections was amazing. Freedom is definitely on my to-read list, but I’m waiting until it comes out on paperback because that fucker is long. You’ll earn so many Tootsie Pops by the time you’re finished.
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i just finished reading this. it is amazing. in the same raw complicated characters way that the corrections was, well worth reading.
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I LOVE THE CORRECTIONS AND I LOVE FREEDOM
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Okay, I get ALL the tootsie pops, I finished. I liked it a lot but it was somehow not as satisfying overall as The Corrections.
I know that not everything in life is about teh gayness… but I loved the way he did the lesbian subplot in Corrections, and I was disappointed by all the little moments in Freedom where some character or other was…[Read more]
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yodelmachine posted an update in the group
NYC Autostraddlers 12 years, 5 months ago1. why are there two nyc autostraddler groups
2. i am interviewing for a job in nyc next week. cross your fingers. if it goes well i will be joining this group f’rill.-
How’d the job interview go? Also no idea why a second group was made!
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it went well enough that i have a second interview next week, which is pretty cool.
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The second group getting used on the pride post today made me itchy, I almost freaked out when I saw that there were only 27 members and that I was no longer one of them. It took me a moment to figure out that this still existed! Splitting up the group:not a good idea.
Good luck on your next interview!
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y’all, i got the job! movin’ to the city in july. and joining this group for truesies now.
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Ryan Yates posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoI’m half way through Kushiel’s Chosen, by Jaqueline Carey (the second book in a trilogy), which is awesome not only because it’s epic fantasy but told from a female POV, which never seems to happen, and because the main antagonist / source of conflict and prison sentences and sex scenes is also a woman. And because of all the character…[Read more]
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I have been told I must read these books.
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DO IT
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I love this series.
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Elizabeth (aka Elli B.) posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoI will share what I am reading right now even though it is embarrassing. I’m reading this YA series called Heck about these teens/tweens who die and go to Limbo/Hell for kids and try and break out. It has some hysterical references, ie. Ethics taught by Nixon and such. I have a pile of books to read and I don’t know what to go for next… Water…[Read more]
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YA should never be embarrassing.
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Ok, true, I enjoy YA… but this is younger than most I would read… and not at all queer like most YA I read. But the series was recommended by a bookstore employee as being one adults could find humor in, and I’m in the mood to read a book I don’t have to think about.
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I was going to go on about how it’s neat how sometimes good YA gets to say things that adult books don’t, and even though the voice can seem false, the message can be better/truer. And then I looked up that series and saw the words “marshmallow bear explosion.” Which is clearly the truest experience of all. (Though I have heard very very good…[Read more]
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Yes, they die initially in a marshmallow explosion. And it’s so full of puns, this series! The third book just came out in paperback and I got it for free, so I’m going to be starting it shortly.
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Rachel posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 5 months agoHi I’m reading Middlesex! I’m on page p 389!
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I gave up on that book well before page 389… it was taking too long to get into it. But then everyone tells me I should give it another try. I love Virgin Suicides so much, I was a bit bummed.
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One of my favorite books of all time. It helped me fall in love with Detroit again. Let us know what you think!
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Middlesex is one of my favorites! Of course, I am also from Detroit.
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Also, the “join” button for this group is not appearing for me. Help?
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Middlesex! this was two weeks ago, have you finished it now? i understand what @ellib means about it being hard to get into. it felt more like trudging than i usually like for a book… but for some reason i uncharacteristically just kept going and by the end i was completely in love with the book and the main character.
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i think i actually liked it more at the beginning? basically i was really into desdemona and lefty, and when the focus shifted away from them i was less engaged. i actually think the narration somehow made it harder for me to get into it. i dunno. it did make me really want to read the virgin suicides though
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it’s been a few years, but i sort of remember when i started reading the desdemona and lefty story, i couldn’t quite figure out why i should care about it. but as the book became less history and more present, i found i missed that narrative, and that their story was the one i wanted to linger on.
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Describes my experience with this book perfectly. In the end though, I really enjoyed it.
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Toby posted an update in the group
um. uh. wait. ok. wait. what was the question? ok. um. yeah. wait. what? 12 years, 5 months ago
So I have a newly found ladyfriend! Somehow. I think our mutual awkwardness is what brought us together.
Anyway, we had discussed the girls we’d kissed previous to meeting each other. One of the girls I mentioned was my straight ex-best friend, who kissed me for the attention and fucked with my emotions ’cause I had an obvious thing for her.…[Read more]
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this makes me happy.
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i don’t understand what the colon three face means. could you enlighten me please.
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It’s like a happy kitten turned sideways.
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It’s a bunny for sure.
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it’s where your eyes go on a really hot girl- her eyes and then her boobs, her eyes and then her boobs…
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Aw! A keeper for real!
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Oh my god I never saw this.
Also: OK looks like a little person turned sideways.
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thats so unbelievably sweet. Way to take initiative.BAM makeout sesh! I’d say a definite keeper!
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sounds awesome, i will def check it out!
Devil in the White City was so good! I didn’t realize he had written another book, I am so happy about that news. Thank you!