Tag: women writers
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It’s crazy to me that I haven’t read anything by Le Guin before this book (which apparently is the fifth in a series, but there’s no need to worry, you can jump right into this book without missing out on anything). She is a master of science fiction and her prose is just so good,…
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I don’t typically post quotes from the books I read on the blog, but this book is filled with these simple and profound statements (never mind that they are undercut by doubt and different logic most of the time), so I thought I’d share some: “That was a dream, of course, but many of the…
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This historical fiction was highly enjoyable, filled with interesting characters and not a little intrigue. As Tasha Alexander comments at the back of the book, Lady Emily enjoys an interesting place in society. As a widow, she’s as free from outside influence as she could possibly be. Since she hardly knew her husband, she doesn’t…
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Published in 1963, Mary McCarthy’s novel follows eight young women following their college graduation (Vassar class of ’33). These women are educated and intelligent yet they are not immune from either the economic pressures of the Depression nor of societal pressures to be meek and fall in line. Without giving too much detail about any…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature from the Broke and the Bookish. This week’s feature has you choose books you’re going to read this fall. As you know, these are all by female writers and they’re a mixture of things on my Goodreads list and books from these two great lists (which would be…
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In 8th grade when the other group of kids (in the other English class) was reading this book, we read The Outsiders, which is a fine book, but it doesn’t really hold a candle to Maya Angelou. I always felt that by not getting to read this book I was missing out, so I had to…
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I listened to this book on a road trip with my grandparents. Nana and Papa came to visit us in Boise and then I drove back with them to spend more time with family and a girlfriend who flew in from out of town. The book was everything you could want from a trip read–it…
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I find that it always takes me a while to get through Donna Tartt’s books, but that the effort is always worthwhile. Her writing is so intelligent, so tightly controlled, and you get drawn into this parallel universe where insane things can happen and seem quite rational. Her characters are flawed, interesting, and dynamic. She…
Allison Burris 