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message 1: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 5312 comments So. I created (what I consider) a GREAT listopia: Best Fantasy Books with Strong Women Characters
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Sadly, people do not read and have been putting Romance and Science Fiction books on the list. :-(

I've been cleaning it up but the list is sooo big, I could use some help. If any of y'all have the time, could you eyeball my list and tell me if you spot any SF and/or Romance books so I can delete them?


message 2: by Cheryl (new)

Cheryl (cherylllr) I tried, but I just don't recognize many of the titles. Maybe if you restricted it to one title per series it'd be more concise and easier to keep clean? Sorry that I can't help more.


message 3: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 5312 comments Books I currently have on the chopping block:
-Throne of Glass - 2K plus shelvings as Romance
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

-Ella Enchanted: 1K plus shelvings as Romance https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 4: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 5312 comments Cheryl wrote: "I tried, but I just don't recognize many of the titles. Maybe if you restricted it to one title per series it'd be more concise and easier to keep clean? Sorry that I can't help more."

I'd love to - GR told me I couldn't do that because reasons.

:-(


message 5: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 5312 comments [more] Books I currently have on the chopping block:

Touch the Dark - Lots of PNR shelvings https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Etiquette & Espionage - Lots of Sci-Fi and Steampunk shelvings https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Stray - Lots of Romance and/or PNR shelvings https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...

Haunted (Otherworld #5) and all other Otherworld books - Lots of shelvings for Romance


message 6: by Greg (new)

Greg | 201 comments I was just wondering - there doesn't seem to be any books by Marion Zimmer Bradley on the list. I've only read one book by her so far (Sword and Sorceress I) and that was ages ago! Did she not write some strong female characters?


message 7: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 5312 comments Greg wrote: "I was just wondering - there doesn't seem to be any books by Marion Zimmer Bradley on the list. I've only read one book by her so far (Sword and Sorceress I) and that was ages ago! D..."

I think a lot of people who are interested in strong women characters stopped reading MZB after the sex child abuse case and issues came out. Her husband was jailed for abusing boys and her children have said she physically, sexually and mentally abused them. She left them nothing in her will and instead left everything to her lover - who is the adult her daughter tried to go to tell about the abuse. Unfortunately the lover instead went to MZB with the accusations.


message 8: by Greg (new)

Greg | 201 comments MrsJoseph wrote: "Greg wrote: "I was just wondering - there doesn't seem to be any books by Marion Zimmer Bradley on the list. I've only read one book by her so far (Sword and Sorceress I) and that wa..."

I didn't know anything about that until now but I can see where you're coming from. That leaves the contributors to the Sword and Sorceress series in an awkward situation.


message 9: by MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift (new)

MrsJoseph *grouchy* (mrsjoseph) | 5312 comments Yep.

I stopped reading them but I'd been reading them for years and years. I can't fault authors but...


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