Washington Post: 24 female-authored book pairings for a year of reading books only by women
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1sweetiegherkin
Thought some of you might be interested in this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/03/27/24-books-for-a-year-of...
2southernbooklady
That is the second time in as many weeks that Nnedi Okorafor has been recommended to me. Okay, Universe. I can take a hint.
3sparemethecensor
>1 sweetiegherkin: Thanks for sharing this!
In the past several years I've made an active effort to read more female, LGBT, non-Western, and POC authors, but I've not reached 100%. (Of course, I also read more like 110 books per year rather than 24, so I am certainly reading more than 24 books by women...) I also like seeing this challenge in a mainstream publication. Maybe it'll get more people to take these writers seriously!
>2 southernbooklady: I read Who Fears Death in 2012. I liked it but I didn't think it lived up to the hype. I think part of the reason it was so popular was that people who never read African fiction thought it was the most inventive fantasy novel ever... because they never read African fiction. The race and gender issues in the book don't have nearly the depth of someone like Octavia Butler or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. That said, if people have never read an African author before and this gets them to do so, I can't complain!
In the past several years I've made an active effort to read more female, LGBT, non-Western, and POC authors, but I've not reached 100%. (Of course, I also read more like 110 books per year rather than 24, so I am certainly reading more than 24 books by women...) I also like seeing this challenge in a mainstream publication. Maybe it'll get more people to take these writers seriously!
>2 southernbooklady: I read Who Fears Death in 2012. I liked it but I didn't think it lived up to the hype. I think part of the reason it was so popular was that people who never read African fiction thought it was the most inventive fantasy novel ever... because they never read African fiction. The race and gender issues in the book don't have nearly the depth of someone like Octavia Butler or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. That said, if people have never read an African author before and this gets them to do so, I can't complain!
4southernbooklady
>3 sparemethecensor: Isn't Okorafor considered on some level to be a young adult writer?
5sparemethecensor
>4 southernbooklady: I hadn't realized that having only read Who Fears Death but you are correct.
6MsMaryAnn
I will be reading My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. I edited "her" CK gender back in January from female to other/contested/unknown. The Italian LT site lists female. mmm...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/elena-ferrante-interview_n_6791610.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/03/elena-ferrante-interview_n_6791610.html
7lorax
Please pardon the drive-by, I hope it's not too unwelcome.
I started a LT group for people doing some version of K. Tempest Bradford's challenge (broadly defined as attempting to read books by a wider diversity of authors than you have in the past.) I have it locked down to invitation-only to keep out the sort of hostility that I've seen everywhere else the challenge is discussed, but so far I haven't turned anyone down who requested an invite. (I won't accept requests from people with private libraries, though; too hard to tell good faith in that situation.)
I started a LT group for people doing some version of K. Tempest Bradford's challenge (broadly defined as attempting to read books by a wider diversity of authors than you have in the past.) I have it locked down to invitation-only to keep out the sort of hostility that I've seen everywhere else the challenge is discussed, but so far I haven't turned anyone down who requested an invite. (I won't accept requests from people with private libraries, though; too hard to tell good faith in that situation.)
8southernbooklady
I wish I could join, lorax, but if nothing else my job prevents me from making a commitment to avoid reading books by straight white men, so I can't take the challenge. I'll read the discussions with interest though.
9LolaWalser
>8 southernbooklady:
I don't think there's an obligation to follow the proposed challenge exactly to the letter.
I don't think there's an obligation to follow the proposed challenge exactly to the letter.
10lorax
>8 southernbooklady:
Which is exactly why I said "some version, broadly defined".
Personally I am doing the challenge only for fiction (which Tempest said on Twitter was the original intent, anyway) and only trying for a significant reduction, not a complete elimination of books I read by SWM. I don't think anyone would hold books that you don't have a choice about reading against you!
Which is exactly why I said "some version, broadly defined".
Personally I am doing the challenge only for fiction (which Tempest said on Twitter was the original intent, anyway) and only trying for a significant reduction, not a complete elimination of books I read by SWM. I don't think anyone would hold books that you don't have a choice about reading against you!
11aulsmith
>8 southernbooklady: or even books you really want to read that don't fit. I've been talking a lot about what was Tempest really trying to get at and whether her methodology works for me.
12southernbooklady
Well okay then. I've sent a request to join.
13lesmel
>11 aulsmith: Wasn't her ultimate goal to find writing that resonated with her? Once she had cut out one segment of the writing population, she found what truly resonated. That was when she realized how much that one segment dominated the writing field.
I'm challenge agnostic? neutral? -- I don't agree or disagree with her point(s); but I'm not sure eliminating straight, white, cis male authors would resonate with me. I already read more women than men (it would be interesting to see my stats on other demographic elements). How does her challenge help me as a reader or a person -- outside of the obvious points of expanding my areas of interest and expanding my "writer/author radar" so to speak. Maybe a better way to ask my question is: What can reading one year of non-white, non-straight, non-cis male writers/authors really teach me?
I'm challenge agnostic? neutral? -- I don't agree or disagree with her point(s); but I'm not sure eliminating straight, white, cis male authors would resonate with me. I already read more women than men (it would be interesting to see my stats on other demographic elements). How does her challenge help me as a reader or a person -- outside of the obvious points of expanding my areas of interest and expanding my "writer/author radar" so to speak. Maybe a better way to ask my question is: What can reading one year of non-white, non-straight, non-cis male writers/authors really teach me?
