Reading festival

[glenatron]

I had a big creative plan for this year, but most of my plans for the year have in fact not worked out because I am a horrendously lazy man.

However a conversation on Twitter with Juliet E McKenna ( jemck ) about representation of female authors on the genre shelves of bookshops got me looking at the ratio of male to female authors in that section of

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[puddleshark]

I too abandoned Song of the Earth, though I made it about halfway through - it contained a lot of standard fantasy tropes, which isn't always a bad thing if you're after entertainment, but I thought it also it suffered a bit from plot-stall.

I haven't tried the Kameron Hurley because it sounded a bit too dark for my tastes, but all the others listed here are Good Books.

And I must do a catch-up post on books soon...

[glenatron]

You were someone who I thought would have read a lot of these- I was fairly sure you'd have read Tea With The Black Dragon. You're probably making the right call with Hurley.

[herecirm]

Half-way through was where I stopped reading, too. I kept pressing on, hoping something interesting would happen or that I would suddenly love the character ... any character ... but, nah. Life's too short!

[puddleshark]

nah. Life's too short! Exactly. If you're going to have a slow-moving plot, your characters and world-building had better be something exceptional...

A flying post about reading female fantasy authors...

[livejournal]

User jemck referenced to your post from A flying post about reading female fantasy authors... saying: [...] on the 'women authors challenge' and found his time very well spent indeed. Do go and have a read. [...]

[lantairvlea]

Add to your list of lady authors: Ursula Vernon/T. Kingfisher (the latter being a pseudonym for her more mature work). She's also on LJ: ursulav

Jennifer Roberson's Cheysuli Chronicles are also a good read.

I enjoyed the reviews and might have to look for some of those when I have some leisure reading time again.