Read Women discussion

Hi all,

Sometimes we focus reading so much by new and different authors that we miss out on books by authors we have already read and enjoyed.

This is a challenge that encourages revisiting those authors we've already discovered, but perhaps slightly neglected.

Just post how many female authors you intend to revisit here, and then keep us updated on how your progress goes.

I always fail this challenge so this year, instead of deciding which authors I want to revisit in advance, and then not getting round to them, I'm just going to put myself down for revisiting 5 authors total

8/5 10
1. Marina J. Lostetter - Noumenon Infinity
2. Jane Harper - The Lost Man
3. Katherine Arden - The Winter of the Witch
4. Emma Healey - Whistle in the Dark
5. Naomi Alderman - Disobedience
6. Madeline Miller - Circe
7. Catherynne M. Valente - In the Night Garden
8. Becky Chambers - To Be Taught, If Fortunate

I think I will put myself down for 6. With the Quarterly challenge I am planning to revisit Margaret Atwood and Miles Franklin and for February I will be revisiting Virginia Woolf. Hopefully I can sneak in a revisit in each of the following 3 quarters.

1. Virginia Woolf - Night and Day
2. Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
3. Charlotte Brontë - The Professor
4. George Eliot - Scenes of Clerical Life
5. Jane Austen - Persuasion
6. Sylvia Plath - Ariel

@Louise - i love this challenge. This year, instead of being driven to new authors and/or new countries - to great enjoyment, but still -- I'd like to enjoy more novels from authors I like, and read more novels that take place in countries about which I want to deepen my knowledge.

I'm not one to plan in advance who those authors are. I'd prefer not to have guardrails, roadmaps and reservations.

I'll revisit at least 10 female authors this year.

1.Yasmina Reza -The God of Carnage
2. Yōko Ogawa - The Housekeeper and the Professor
3.Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Reckoning
4. Gillian Flynn — The Grownup

I will try for 5. COMPLETED 5/2/19
UPDATED TO 10 AUTHORS

6/10

1. Louise Penny - How the Light Gets In
2. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Wild Girls
3. Zadie Smith - Feel Free: Essays
4. Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate
5. Charlotte Brontë - The Professor
6. Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls

I’ve already revisited one so far, I think I can make it 10 this year. Nice challange, I’m in!

I plan on finding a bunch of new writers this year, but there are a few I'd love to revisit. I'll try for 5:

5/5

1. Jane of Lantern Hill by L.M. Montgomery
2. Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories by Jane Yolen
3. The Weird Tales of Tanith Lee
4. Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
5. The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin

And done!

Louise wrote: "I always fail this challenge so this year, instead of deciding which authors I want to revisit in advance, and then not getting round to them, I'm just going to put myself down for revisiting 5 aut..."

Ok so this proved to be far too easy, have already revisited 5 authors without making any special effort.

Going to up my goal to 10 (for the moment) and see how quickly I progress with that before deciding if I need to up it further or not.

Louise wrote: "Louise wrote: "I always fail this challenge so this year, instead of deciding which authors I want to revisit in advance, and then not getting round to them, I'm just going to put myself down for r..."

I didn’t even know that Naomi Alderman has a second book! You’ve inspired me to read what I love and stop being controlled by external deadlines and expectations (except to this group lol). I’ve spent too much time on debuts, arcs and book club picks for the last 24 months.

Disobedience is actually Naomi Alderman's first book! It seems pretty mad because The Power got so much attention and kinda felt like a debut, but it's actually her fourth novel.

Disobedience was very different though. Realistic story set within the Orthodox Jewish community in North London (specifically Hendon, which is where she's lives and pretty much the exact area I'm currently based) and was fairly controversial within some parts of said communities when it came out both for the LGBT plot and Alderman stating that the process of writing it is what made her give up being a practicing Jew.

I've not read any of her other stuff yet so it's hard to tell which s closer to her 'normal' style but the books are so different that if I'd read them further apart I'd probably have been surprised to find they were by the same author.

Louise wrote: "Disobedience is actually Naomi Alderman's first book! It seems pretty mad because The Power got so much attention and kinda felt like a debut, but it's actually her ..."

That sounds highly intriguing. Do you recommend it?

I completed my challenge of 5 authors so I am updating my goal to 10. (Message 5)