Comments on: Books by Women Meme

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:30:11 +0000

How about starting the blogring book club at the top of the list? I just got Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits - had to start somewhere and it seemed a good place to me.

By: Liberta

Liberta — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:01:52 +0000

Have read less than 5 of them but if I could include seeing the movie then I would get a much better rating.

Pretty much if I haven’t read it or haven’t seen it then I haven’t heard of it. Who are these women writers? Are they modern? Last decade? Last quarter century? Last 100 years? How were these books chosen for the list?

I guess the aim of this is to promote women writers but if you applied the same criteria [whatever they were] to building a list of male writers, I would guess that my ratings of reading and viewing would not be much different. I pay so little attention to the name of the author unless the book is great and I want to find another, that I would venture to claim gender blindness in choosing a book.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:58:57 +0000

Jax– I bolded half the list! I’ve come to the conclusion it’s because I’m older than everyone else doing the list! As the Babysitter Club books were way after my time! Anyway–Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, or Atlas Shrugged are books that would be up your alley, from what I can tell from reading your blog–I strongly recommend them for you.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:01:40 +0000

Wide Sargasso Sea is about Rochester’s wife in Jane Eyre and was Jean Rhys’s attempt to address the foul treatment she was given by C Bronte and is excellent. The Yellow Wallpaper is a small masterpiece, imo.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:13:42 +0000

It’s quite interesting to see what people have read. It looks like we’ve all read at least one Nancy Drew! Thanks for playing along.