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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just started reading the Thousand and One Nights. Or the first volume, anyway–the title is not an exaggeration!
I’ve read a lot of new fiction but not a lot of good literature. I want to correct that, but I don’t really know where to start. Any suggestions?
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I’m with you on that – I’m trying to get books I really should have read by now, classics I have managed to miss. Reading Vanity Fair at the moment and it’s pretty funny.
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ok guys, classic classics or contemporary classics?
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Hmm. I really would like a little of both, but if we’re sticking to one, then classic classics, please! It’s probably a better starting point.
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ok well the following is a list of authors of classics, i’ve listed some books i thought were good. and also some which i haven’t read yet (asterisked), but i mean they’re classics. also this is possibly rather anglo/western-centric. god so much pressure i don’t profess to know anything
pre-1900s:
– charles dickens – oliver twist, great…[Read more]
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just finished reading ‘Deathless’ by Catherynne Valente. Holy shit, she is a brilliant writer!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI just started reading some of David Foster Wallace’s work and I love him!!! Any other fangays?
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I read the Broom of the System ages ago and didn’t like it, but have been thinking I should try one of his again – what are you reading?
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I’m reading The Girl With the Curious Hair, just read “This is Water,” and have Infinite Jest sitting on my nightstand. I think Broom of the System was his first book, maybe his later books are different?
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m reading Role Models by John Waters. His writing makes me make this face: http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/disgusted_cat0.jpg but in the best way possible
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI really liked “Pages For You” by Sylvia Brownrigg. Any suggestions?
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About a Girl by Joanne Horniman (also everything else she writes, but especially My Candlelight Novel and A Charm of Powerful Trouble)
Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties by Felicia Luna Lemus
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Stir Fry by Emma Donoghue
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties by Felicia Luna Lemus
looks really good, i’ll make sure to order that from amazon or something.
Thanks Rie!-
Remember to use the AS Amazon link!
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rightto. haven’t done that yet.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI wrestled so much with joining this group. On the one hand, Autostraddlers + books. On the other, the number of members was at 69.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI read a lot of YA and kids’ stuff and review it at pannarrens.wordpress.com. I will take requests as long as it vaguely interests me and I can get it from my library. If I had to buy all the books I read, I’d go broker than I am now.
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Especially if you have any YA LGBT books to recommend…
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“A Love Story” by Emily Horner (that i posted earlier here) is a lesbian YA that i highly recommend. are you just looking for new titles or anything…
i’m a teen librarian and these are of interest to me. :) sooo many good books (i also just read “Huntress” by Malindo Lo! #omg).
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i have so many favorite lgbtq YA books: anything by David Levithan (esp. “Boy Meets Boy” and “Love is the Higher Law” & “Wide Awake”), anything by Julie Anne Peters (favs include a book of short stories, “Grl2Grl,” “Between Mom & Jo,” and “Rage”.) “Gravity” by Leanne Lieberman is profound and offers a look into orthodox Judaism, “Empress of the…[Read more]
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“Pages for You” by Sylvia Brownigg is my fave.
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Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters is pretty much the best LGBT YA I’ve read.
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Yes! A thousand times yes!
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 5 months agoI’m reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Tropic of Cancer right now. And listening to Crime and Punishment on cd! I’m really liking all three, especially The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
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hee hee. i totally read that as a mashup: “the unbearable lightness of the tropic of cancer.”
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KUNDERA! been meaning to get to unbearable lightness for some time now.
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Hehe, that is a mashup I’d like to read!
I know, I put off reading it forever, thinking it would just be too pretentious, and now I’m loving it. Definitely lives up to the hype.
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I bet! have you read Immortality and/or Identity? Amazing books. How is Tropic of Cancer? i’ve tried reading it a bunch of times but… :(
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I haven’t read either, this is the first book by Kundera I’ve read. How are those? I’m liking Tropic of Cancer thus far, but I can see how it could be hard to get into. I’ve been reading just a few pages of it at a time, it isn’t as engrossing as some other books.
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Agh I love Unbearable Lightness of Being and Kundera in general. Have you read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting?
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I haven’t read it, but my mom keeps telling me too, so I probably will. What’s it about?
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It’s hard to classify as one plot. It uses a lot of the same characters (Tomas, Tereza, etc).
Anyway, two rolls and a bee.
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