Bustle Reads 2016 discussion

The one title mentioned is Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More. A link to more is available at: http://www.bustle.com/articles/92602-...

I'm almost done with Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (from Sleater-Kinney, NPR, and Portlandia), which I definitely recommend for anyone interested in the '90s music scene or life on tour with a band. But I also really want to read Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming

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I did read the recommended Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More for this prompt and have to say I really loved it. I may read Carrie brownstein as a extra later in the year if I can though. That woman is crazy talented

I just finished Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, it was amazingly good, even though it was "just" a graphic novel.

I also read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, since it's been in my to-read list for like forever. It was really good and much more intense than I thought it was going to be.

I read Irrepressible by Emily Bingham about her great-aunt Henrietta Bingham. It is NOT by someone who identifies as LGBT but is about someone who does and Henrietta's personal letters and such are used as resources. It was good. I liked Henrietta's story more than I liked the telling of it if that makes sense. I think the most interesting thing about this book is the time period in which it occurred, the early half of the 1900's. The belief that homosexuality could be cured was prominent and many psychiatrists were very excited to try new techniques, such as frontal lobotomies, on the nearest takers. Scary times.

I read One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir, which doesn't explicitly address the author's sexuality in the memoir itself, but he did also publish a "lost chapter" that makes it clear that he does, in fact identify as gay. (http://africasacountry.com/2014/01/i-...) This was interesting to me, because the book does, in fact, touch on some related themes, but actually reflects a fair amount of the homophobia that is common in East Africa.

I'd meant to read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic as my graphic novel but another book fell into my lap in that category. I had already checked Fun Home out from the library and decided it would work well here. Really enjoyed the read. I know the musical is coming to my area soon and I have no clue how they adapted it but I think I'll try to find out.

I am going to see Fun Home this winter! I'm really looking forward to it.

I just finished reading Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. I started reading Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, but felt like I was missing a big piece of the story, because I think it is a sequel to Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. I did like the book, the mom cracked me up. Although, I would never want a mom like her.

Hannah wrote: "I'm almost done with Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein (from Sleater-Kinney, NPR, and Portlandia), which I definitely recommend for anyone interest..."

I also read Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl for this prompt! I now Carrie Brownstein (who identifies as Bisexual) more from Portlandia than from Sleater-Kinney, but it was definitely an interesting look into the Pacific Northwest Indie Rock scene of the 1990s.