Something About Reading

[snurri]

I've realized something recently; I prefer to read fiction by women. This is a general trend I've noticed this year, and one I've been trying to explain to myself. (This may be unnecessary, but then I already spend more energy than necessary trying to explain myself to myself, so it's not really anything new.) Before I started tracking my reading

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[jamiam]

That's kinda interesting. Which books in particular led you to this realization? Because now I wanna read 'em...

[jamiam]

(My reading list has also been kinda women-heavy lately. But that's at least partly due to the fact that more women than men write YA, and the YA books/series make for much faster reads.)

[snurri]

I don't know if I could point to a particular book, but the authors I've been reading this year seem to have cemented it. Le Guin has been a large part of it, but also Kelley Eskridge and Moa Martinson and Patricia Highsmith (she writes about incredibly fucked-up people and relationships, but does so incredibly well) and Eleanor Arnason and Kristin Livdahl's novella and Katharine Beutner and Virginia Woolf and Molly Gloss's The Hearts of Horses, which is still probably the best book I've read this year.

[jamiam]

No, that's great. Thanks!