Sanguinity Doesn't Blog Here Anymore
... so I'm blogging for my wife today, and assure you she definitely said it's OK. It's about 9:30 on a nippy morning, and I've had my coffee.
Oh! Another man discovered that women write books, too! And a whole raft of them are written up here, compiled and curated by Mary Ann Sieghart: books by women that every man should read.
Obviously, every reader has their own taste and preferences. I found the above list interesting mainly because it only contains two books that I've read myself. (Am I thus poorly read?) It sticks mainly to highly popular "plain literary works", not genre work or hidden gems. If I weren't so sure of myself, I'd start to wonder if I should go back to the drawing board and replan my reading life. But, no. Sometimes I think people who want to find out more about the human condition should read more obscure work, not just the stuff that's uber-popular and like nearly everyone in the universe has read. (I'm looking at you, Harry Potter!)
Now, having said that, I'll probably have to come up with some examples. Here is a late spring grab-bag of books I liked, in no particular order, except for the first.
Dusssie (Nancy Springer)
Dawn (Octavia Butler)
Small World (Carol Deschere)
Virgin Soul (Judy Juanita)
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Olivia Waite)
Dear Wolf (Kathleen Sully)
Blanche on the Lam (Barbara Neely)
Langue[dot]doc 1305 (Gillian Polack)
The Devil's Grin (Annelie Wendeberg)
Searching for Von Honningsbergs (Rowena Wiseman)
The Cure for Summer Boredom (Katherine Luck)
Who Put Her In? (Jane Jago)
Oh! Another man discovered that women write books, too! And a whole raft of them are written up here, compiled and curated by Mary Ann Sieghart: books by women that every man should read.
Obviously, every reader has their own taste and preferences. I found the above list interesting mainly because it only contains two books that I've read myself. (Am I thus poorly read?) It sticks mainly to highly popular "plain literary works", not genre work or hidden gems. If I weren't so sure of myself, I'd start to wonder if I should go back to the drawing board and replan my reading life. But, no. Sometimes I think people who want to find out more about the human condition should read more obscure work, not just the stuff that's uber-popular and like nearly everyone in the universe has read. (I'm looking at you, Harry Potter!)
Now, having said that, I'll probably have to come up with some examples. Here is a late spring grab-bag of books I liked, in no particular order, except for the first.
Dusssie (Nancy Springer)
Dawn (Octavia Butler)
Small World (Carol Deschere)
Virgin Soul (Judy Juanita)
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Olivia Waite)
Dear Wolf (Kathleen Sully)
Blanche on the Lam (Barbara Neely)
Langue[dot]doc 1305 (Gillian Polack)
The Devil's Grin (Annelie Wendeberg)
Searching for Von Honningsbergs (Rowena Wiseman)
The Cure for Summer Boredom (Katherine Luck)
Who Put Her In? (Jane Jago)
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May 29, 2022 11:29AM
P.S. Astute readers may have noticed that a few of the books on my list are a little obscure and hard to find. As a Smashed-Rat-on-Press author I have unsupervised access to the entire SROP corporate library, even on weekends. That's why.
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Mayhem and Angst
I don't really plan on blogging much here, but I'll keep people abreast of the publication plans for my first poetry book.
Hi, Gran! :-) I told you I'd do it!
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Hi, Gran! :-) I told you I'd do it!
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