Allende to Zevin

[tamaranth]

Have read my way through the alphabet, female writers only. (Apart from Ali Shaw, who for some reason I thought was female: I made up for him with Jane Stevenson.)

- Some could be labelled 'feminist': some were typically 'feminine': some were neither.

- Some were good, some were bad.

- Quite a few were in translation or by writers who aren't English/American.

It didn't feel very different to my usual reading. I probably haven't read this many books by women consecutively for a long time: but the books I read had as wide a range as when I'm reading without attention to the gender of the writer.

You can see 'em all here on LibraryThing, where there are links to my reviews and stars out of five. (About which I often change my mind later.)

Comments

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I think it's a really interesting project. So, which was your favourite?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

depends on my criteria! Most delightful to read? Most inspirational? Most edifying? Most fun? Most likely to spawn transformatives? Most psychologically illuminating? Most reassuring?

Carter; Elphinstone; Xinran; Wrede / Stevermer; Jones / Bennett; Lively; [final one redacted as I didn't mean it in a complimentary sense!]