Jack
wants
to read:
Did a few sums regarding my reading lists and discovered less than 20% of the books I've read are written by women. It's a necessary consequence of reading a lot of classics, but it's still too few for my liking. Please recommend me good female authoDid a few sums regarding my reading lists and discovered less than 20% of the books I've read are written by women. It's a necessary consequence of reading a lot of classics, but it's still too few for my liking. Please recommend me good female authors of fiction or non-fiction that have hit my blind spot. ...more
About:
I used to read because I felt it was necessary to have intimate knowledge of Dostoyevsky or Cervantes or Shakespeare or Virginia Woolf to be a completI used to read because I felt it was necessary to have intimate knowledge of Dostoyevsky or Cervantes or Shakespeare or Virginia Woolf to be a complete person -- but I've done that now, and if I've become a complete person, it hasn't provided me with many dazzling insights. So now I read for my own entertainment, wherever that might be found - though perhaps that's what I always did. Trying to puzzle out reviews to be something a little less hermetic than my immediate thoughts upon reading, to understand what place a book, and a reader, has in the wider scheme....more
