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phyllisgabor

2012 reading list

Jan 01, 2012 14:50

The following is a list of books I'd like to read this year. Lately I've been fascinated by books that were super popular and best selling, but have sort of become lost in the mists of time because they weren't capital C classics. Unfortunately most of these books have vanished from public libraries because they no longer speak to people's ( Read more... )

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fridge_buzz_now January 1 2012, 21:21:28 UTC

I think I'm going to join a book club this year, because I hardly read any books in 2011. I didn't know Up the Down Staircase was a book; I only knew it as an offbeat little Sandy Dennis movie.

phyllisgabor January 10 2012, 16:23:30 UTC

Movie nerd alert: the groovy font used on the posters for the movie version of Up the Down Staircase is taken directly from the dust jacket.

I've always wanted to join a book club, but until I find one that specializes in old housekeeping hints manuals I'm gonna be lone wolfing it, I guess!

mondomolly January 2 2012, 01:46:17 UTC

Thanks for posting these: every summer I make a point of reading these kinds of "lost classics of women's literature" and now I have some more titles to add to the list!

phyllisgabor January 10 2012, 16:22:10 UTC

what's the most embarrassing book in this genre you've ever read? Mine is SUCCULENT WILD WOMEN by SARK. The shame, the shame I felt....

mondomolly January 11 2012, 05:39:03 UTC

SUCCULENT WILD WOMEN! I assumed that was a pulp title until I looked it up on Amazon and realized I had actually read that one! Probably found on some bedside table while babysitting. If we can take cult-y self-help titles under this umbrella, I'm going to go with a triple header of Women Who Love Too Much, The Surrendered Wife and Fascinating Womanhood, all read in the privacy of my own home with the shades discreetly drawn ;) Also: How To Find A Husband in 30 Days, with the hilarious cover blurb "From the author of Thin Thighs in 30 Days".

phyllisgabor January 11 2012, 20:29:44 UTC

I've never been able to bring myself to read Fascinating Womanhood even though it's a giant in the self-help for women genre. Years ago I read the Sensuous Woman and the Sensuous Man back to back and it was bizarre to see the different expectations for women and men.

Have you read THE RULES? I've heard it's totally hilarious but I find most I'm gonna git me a man type books to be relentlessly depressing.

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