Book Club List draft/posting test

May 25, 2012 15:13

Hello, Intertubes! I'm inside you and playing with you!... with my words!

Also, I have no clue what I'm doing here. How exhilarating!

Here's the preliminary book club list we have going. It can obviously be changed or augmented and the order is incidental.

-Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
-White's The Once and Future King
-Vonnegut's The Sirens of ( Read more... )

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oath_to_order May 26 2012, 04:30:22 UTC
I'm pretty sure Sirens of Titan is sci-fi but I could be wrong.

You know what we really need on this list? SOME WOMEN. Just saying.

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superplatypus57 May 26 2012, 22:37:33 UTC
Yes, but that's it.

Yes, we need some women. Suggestions?

I Stumbled a book called The Body Project by Joan Brumberg which looks interesting. It's a social historical book about the evolution of female body image in America.

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oath_to_order May 30 2012, 18:34:59 UTC
Sherman Alexie
Flight

Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower *************
Kindred

Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wizard of Earthsea
The Dispossessed

N. K. Jemisin
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (editors)
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life

Vandana Singh
The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet and other stories

Colson Whitehead
The Intuitionist

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superplatypus57 May 26 2012, 22:39:49 UTC
Maybe we could read some Le Guin? What about Kingsolver? I don't know much about her and haven't read anything by her.

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superplatypus57 May 26 2012, 22:42:42 UTC
Animal Dreams by Kingsolver looks interesting. Just saying. Your call. You might be more familiar with her. She could suck. She could rock. I don't know.

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