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    19 Mar 2010

    Leisure Reading Recommendations?

    I’m hitting Strand this afternoon to scour used books. Besides picking up a few McEwan novels I’ve yet to read, what else should I look for? Over spring break in Mexico, I finished Lady Chatterley’s Lover and reread Samantha Lan Chang’s Hunger anthology and Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying.

    Any feminist-y novels/novelists that I might not know of? I’m a huge fan of The Bell Jar and have read a ton of the feminist literary canon (Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, and the like, though no Virginia Woolf). I also like contemporary Gothic in the vein of Patrick McGrath. Any recs would be much appreciated!

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    1. chelseashells answered: Lamb by Christopher Moore. Hilarious. Has nothing to do with any of the things you wanted, but it will make you laugh.
    2. 2arrs2ells answered: Read The Hunger Games! Fucking good YA, all of the students/teachers at my school are obsessed.
    3. schwarzschild-radius answered: Have you read Atwood’s latest sequel to (as well as) Oryx and Crake, by any chance? The novel’s more…”anti consumerist-society” in theme…
    4. pixelintelligence answered: Kushiel’s Dart
    5. thelittlemermaid answered: Try Haruki Murakami, especially Sputnik Sweetheart or Norweigan Wood. Not quite feminist but really interesting female characters!
    6. neoncrayon answered: This doesn’t fit in either category, but “Adverbs” by Daniel Handler is great- I read it twice (some parts, maybe three times).
    7. kungfucarrie answered: Have you read Citizen Girl?
    8. jacobsknabb answered: If you enjoy poetry: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s *Orchard*, Simone Muench’s new book *Orange Crush*. Anything put out by Switchback Press.
    9. jessieflux answered: have you read memoirs of an ex-prom queen by alix kates shulman?
    10. callielion answered: I’m reading Words and Women by Casey Miller and Kate Swift right now. Not exactly leisure, but easy to read and understand. I love it.
    11. amcorm answered: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Graphic novel (brilliant one on many “best of novel” lists). I’d try to describe, but Google it.
    12. alishalisha answered: My final paper for my English class last semester argued that “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” by Muriel Spark is a feminist-y novel. Do it!
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