Remember in the third grade when you got a gold star and/or Tootsie Pop for every 50 pages you read? WHAT IF THAT STILL EXISTED? Which is another way of asking, what are you reading this summer?
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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago@internrachel @julia1
Just a few short days of summer reading left for me. I snuck in another book as I’ve been gearing up for classes.
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How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?, Moustafa Bayoumi (290 pp).
Through a series of engrossing portraits of young Arab-American Muslims, Bayoumi offers an aptly complicated and conflicted answer to the question…[Read more] -
Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoMost recent book: The Magus, by John Fowles (656 pags).
This book is very weird and very hard to describe. The narrator of the book is a British guy, Nicholas Urfe, who takes a job teaching English at a private boys school on a remote Greek island. On the island, he meets a very wealthy, strange man name Conchis. Urfe, having heard some vague…[Read more] -
Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI just read Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (304 pages) and Luna by Julie Anne Peters (248 pages). While I’ve read tons of queer literature, I don’t really know about novels about trans people, but here were two Transgender Teen Novels and I obvs love YA lit so here we go. If anyone has any more recommendations, by the way, that would be awesome.…[Read more]
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Krissy posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI never thought it would happen to me, but it did: I converted to veganism. The books that convinced me to do it were Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr and Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life by Brendan Brazier. Everyone ever should read these books.
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jessica posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI have read several book lately but have not had time/energy to write about them. And now it feels like it’s looming over me, this is exactly what I used to do in school. It’s like I’ve given myself homework.
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoLast week, I read Sister Mischief by Laura Goode. I really wanted to love this book: it’s about girls who love girls who love music. Four girls protest their school administration’s policies through rap. Based on the summary, this should be the best book of the year. But the execution is kind of shallow. Characters are…[Read more]
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dutchdyke posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago@internrachel @julia1
hi again,
yesterday i finished sunset park by paul auster (308 pages) and i loved it, my favourite auster so far :)-
I want to read this!
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoToday I finished Love & Lies: Marisol’s Story by Ellen Wittlinger (245 pages) and also read The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt (353 pages). I feel like I saw reviews of Love & Lies on AfterEllen or something a long time ago and looked at it in the bookstore, but decided that Marisol was a bit too outgoing for me and I wasn’t ready to…[Read more]
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jessicav posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago@internrachel @julia1
It’s been a while since I updated so I have a few to mention…
– Foucault’s HISTORY OF SEXUALITY (vol.1, 176 pages). In this, Foucault refutes the idea of Victorian repressive sexuality and connects sexuality and its discourse to power, but not necessarily in a suppressive manner. I found this pretty interesting and not as di…[Read more]-
I’ve never been that interested in Willa Cather before, but Sapphira and the Slave Girl sounds good! But I take it you like her other books better?
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it’s kind of interesting, but I didn’t think it was a great work. I think I’d still recommend My Antonia or O Pioneers as a starting point, but that’s just because they’re my favourites. But go for Sapphira if you’re interested! It was actually a little hard to find for me, I think my book shop had to order it from the US…
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As far as pure theory books go, Foucault’s are much more readable than most. His ideas are pretty good, too. In grad school, when I was enraged and hating life in general and my Women’s Studies program in particular, seeing Foucault on the syllabus would calm my fury a good deal. He certainly never made me want to punch babies like certain…[Read more]
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Haha, I’ve just started reading some Butler, and I can only handle it by reading about 5-10 pages at a time which is making me a bit sad because normally I read pretty quickly. idk, I like what she says about (older) feminism making assumptions about other cultures and therefore being almost colonialist, but I still feel like I’m going to need the…[Read more]
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Amanda posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI forgot to list the things I’ve been reading. Oops. Other than all of autostraddle, I recently read:
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (232 pages)
This graphic novel was wonderful to read. Filled with references to The Odyssey, Joyce, and approximately a bajillion lesbian books, this is one of my new favorites. Her drawing…[Read more]
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI read Grl2grl: Short Fictions, by Julie Anne Peters (151 pages) and Hello, Groin by Beth Goobie (271 pages). Grl2grl was a short book of really short stories… probably my favorite was the last one about the girls who met at music camp. I think I remember reading an interview with a queer librarian and Hello, Groin was one of her favorite…[Read more]
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI just finished Shadowflame by Dianne Sylvan (360 pages). It *finally* got here after accidentally being sent to my old address, then shipped back to the store, then forwarded to my new address!
It was worth the wait, though :) I realy love the world Dianne Sylvan has created here. Yeah, it’s about vampires, which I’m…[Read more]
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Caitlin posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years ago@internrachel, @julia1
After a bunch of longer books, I decided it was time for some shorter stuff, and so I just finished a couple of short little books– A Mathematician’s Apology, by G.H. Hardy (153 pgs), and The Club of Angels, by Luis Fernando Verissimo (135 pgs).
First, A Mathematician’s Apology. Hardy was a mathematician at Cambridge and…[Read more]-
Hi if you have it set so that you get emails every time someone replies to you, sorry! My html was fucked so I deleted it and I’m replying again.
Your description of that first book, A Mathematician’s Apology, reminded me of something I’ve read along the same lines. It’s clearly influenced by Hardy: A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhar…[Read more]
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Thanks for linking to that Lockhart essay! He perfectly articulates what I think is wrong with math education–how does such a beautiful and interesting subject get turned in to something so boring? I wish I’d had him as a math teacher.
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Chloe posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoOver my vacation, I read Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez (217 pages), Alma Mater, by Rita Mae Brown (260 pages), Getting It by Alex Sanchez (210 pages), and Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (650 pages). These are all books by authors I’ve read other works of and loved. Boyfriends with Girlfriends was great – other Sanchez novels I’ve read…[Read more]
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Also, does anyone else think that Emma Donoghue and Sarah Waters should be best friends? (Assuming they aren’t – I don’t know about them as people, lol, I just know they both write historical and lesbian novels that are awesome.)
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Raksha posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI just finished Hello, I Must Be Going by Christie Hodgen (312 pages).
A tomboy named Frankie has a father who is a Vietnam vet who lost his leg in the war. He does a good job masking his pretty severe depression with humor, but it’s still too much for him and he ends up killing himself. This book is about Frankie’s…[Read more]
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Maddie posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoOh hello AS book club, it has been a while. Here is what I have read in the meantime, @internrachel and @julia1.
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 864 pages. I quite liked it. Anna was a very complex character, but at times I thought I knew how she felt. And the character Levin – he was practically the main character; the book could’ve been given…[Read more]
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I AM SO IMPRESSED BY YOUR READING. So many books that I’ve been too intimidated to try! (Tolstoy, Joyce). YOU ROCK
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You could totally do it! Tolstoy is totally manageable, just long. I’m not gonna lie, though, Ulysses was a tough one.
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I just got my schedule for my next year of school, turns out I’ll be tackling Anna Karenina in class this fall…
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Sam posted an update in the group
Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years agoI am so bad at updating, @internrachel and @julia1 . But I made readings don’t worry!!1
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (395 pp)
A dystopian novel, year 2150. The US (now Gilead) is long past population 0, and a totalitarian regime takes over to reorganize society and encourage population growth. Women find themselves (again) without rights,…[Read more] - Load More
