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June 13, 2013May 28, 2018 Comments Off on Reading Women Writers #5: Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings
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Reading Women Writers #5: Meg Wolitzer – The Interestings

This is the fifth post in the Reading Women Writers series. I finished Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings weeks ago, yet I found it difficult to write about until now for a couple of reasons. First, it…

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May 21, 2013May 28, 2018 Comments Off on Reading Women Writers #4: Isabel Allende – Daughter of Fortune
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Reading Women Writers #4: Isabel Allende – Daughter of Fortune

This is the fourth post in the Reading Women Writers series. Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune tells the story of Eliza Sommers, an orphan that was left at the doorstep of an English brother and sister…

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May 15, 2013May 28, 2018 Comments Off on Reading Women Writers #3: Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions
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Reading Women Writers #3: Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions

This is the third post in the Reading Women Writers series. From now on the posts will be somewhat less formal and won’t be using MLA citations. Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is set in 1960-70s Rhodesia…

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May 10, 2013May 28, 2018 Comments Off on Reading Women Writers #2: Barbara Kingsolver – The Bean Trees
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Reading Women Writers #2: Barbara Kingsolver – The Bean Trees

This is the second post in the Reading Women Writers series. In The Golden Notebook, Anne writes that “One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it…

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May 8, 2013May 28, 2018 Comments Off on Reading Women Writers #1: Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
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Reading Women Writers #1: Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook

As an inaugural novel for my Reading Women Writers series, The Golden Notebook is both perfect and daunting. Perfect, in that since its first publication in 1962 it has inspired generations of women, has a female…

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May 6, 2013May 28, 2018 Comments Off on Reading Women Writers
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Reading Women Writers

Over the years I have certainly seen my fair share of articles and posts based on the premise that straight men don’t read novels written by women. Ester Bloom at Slate finally had enough of this…

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