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cassiphone

Strong Books Make Strong Girls

Feb 03, 2011 11:33

Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.

The title from this post is quoted from one of the comments in the threads over at Bitch Magazine - which I think is the best evidence I can give that it’s not all hysteria and piling-on. There’s some marvellous discussion and some really thoughtful posts over there, even if it’s ( Read more... )

linkage, crossposted, tender morsels, ya, feminism, margo lanagan

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anghara February 3 2011, 05:50:36 UTC

Well, as far as all that goes, I bought a copy of "Tender morsels" today. So it hasn't cost Margo any sales; it GOT her one, in effect - or at the very least it galvanised me into FINALLY getting my cact together and getting a book I had been hearing a lot about and had been meaning to obtain for some time.

Controversy does get attention, and in this case the BOOKS are getting the good attention and the list maker is catching flak.

Although I have to admit that as an author of a YA fantasy trilogy with a strong female lead... I might have been thrilled to have been mentioned. But then, nobody's ever read MY books, apparently. Sigh..