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book...Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities
by...Del LaGrace Volcano, Ulrika Dahl

shelf...have read     rating...4
tags...dissertation feminist femme femmeinist photos queer

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jan 24, '10      spoilers...n/a

Hmm. Overall I am glad to own and have read this book - there is a massive bias in queer theory towards masculine expressions of identity, so I think it's really important that books on the subject of femme exist. However, I'm not just going to blindly adore it because I'm grateful for its attention to subject matter that I deem important and underrepresented; I was often bothered by the lack of criticism of any of the people discussed, or their ideas, and found the tone at times overwhelmingly gushing. Consistently excellent pictures, though.

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book...Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
by...Ariel Schrag

shelf...have read     rating...4
tags...american comic graphicnovel queer

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jan 24, '10      spoilers...n/a

I can't get over how awesome this is? Alison Bechdel called it 'a scathing and meticulously documented autobiographical triumph', which is VERY TRUE.

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book...Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by...Alison Bechdel

shelf...have read     rating...5
tags...american graphicnovel memoir queer

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jan 24, '10      spoilers...n/a

OH MY GOD

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book...The Yellow Wall-Paper
by...Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine Hedges

shelf...have read     rating...4
tags...american feminist

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privacy...viewable     submitted...May 05, '09      spoilers...n/a

So compelling, disturbing, dominating. Amazing amazing. Today I am not feeling at all articulate so I'm going to do that thing where I say maybe I'll write a better entry later and then never do it.

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book...The Monkey's Mask (A Mask Noir Title)
by...Dorothy Porter

shelf...have read     rating...4
tags...australian erotica murdermystery poetry queer thriller

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privacy...viewable     submitted...May 05, '09      spoilers...none

Oh, my god. Obviously I have not read properly in ages - I was going to document the books I was reading for uni but then I never finished any - but this was EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO GET BACK IN. Fucking sublime. I need my own copy immediately. Mmmm.

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book...The People's Act of Love: A Novel
by...James Meek

shelf...have read     rating...5
tags...communism fiction russian

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jul 14, '08      spoilers...none

Usually I hate reading books with 'international best seller' plastered all over the front (I know I'm a snob), but I just didn't care with this one. It is so beautiful, so cruel, so slow - you get to see every side of a moment with complete lucidity throughout. My only main gripe is that I think it was over-egging the pudding a bit to have the cannibal AND the castrate AND the communists - had the communists not been in it it still would have served as an ample reflection of the horrors of that kind of extremism. But, still, amazing amazing. So well-written. So affecting.

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book...The Man of Mode (New Mermaids)
by...George Etherege

shelf...have read     rating...3
tags...play uni

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jul 14, '08      spoilers...none

Especially amusing, but one I think I'll have a lot more to say about once I've started studying it.

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book...The God of Small Things
by...Arundhati Roy

shelf...have read     rating...4
tags...fiction saga

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jun 27, '08      spoilers...none

Wowzers in my trousers, the writing style was fantastic. However, much of the four out of five is because of that; I was interested in the characters, particularly Estha, but I didn't really care for them much. This reminded me a lot of One Hundred Years of Solitude - somewhat cold, removed; a worthy observation of humanity but not entirely human itself.

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book...Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth
by...Ted Hughes

shelf...favourite     rating...5
tags...fable fantasy poem

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jun 08, '08      spoilers...none

MAGIC. LOVE. LOVE.

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book...Ecstasy : Three Tales of Chemical Romance
by...Irvine Welsh

shelf...have read     rating...2
tags...fiction gore scottish

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privacy...viewable     submitted...Jun 07, '08      spoilers...n/a

When I first read this, aged fifteen, I was really impressed, particularly by the oral rape scene in the second story, which rendered me speechless. However, I found little in it upon re-reading five years on. The only thing about this book that interests me is its grossness, and I could get that from several sources that wouldn't also subject me to a depressingly flat writing style.

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