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re: can women write books? eta forgot about paula dean and betty crocker.

Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:27 pm to
Posted by foshizzle
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:27 pm to
You left out the entire repertoire of George Eliot.
Posted by AUbagman
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:42 pm to
So, did you ever stop to think women might feel the same way about men? Just because you don't emotionally relate does not mean it's not quality writing that others enjoy. Regardless, there are many women authors with masculine flair such as the Ayan Rands/Shelleys of the world. I'd add:

- A Wrinkle in Time
- Interview with the Vampire
- Ordinary People
- The Hunger Games series
- Gone Girl

I'm just thinking of ones off the top of my head, but I'm sure I could come up with many more I've read that I've enjoyed immensely.
Posted by Martini
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:44 pm to
6 pages and no one has mentioned a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank.
Posted by AUbagman
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:45 pm to


Yep, so obvious I didn't even think about it.
Posted by lsu480
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:45 pm to
Pretty sure we are talking fiction here......
Posted by GeauxxxTigers23
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:46 pm to
The holocaust is fiction
Posted by Layabout
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:56 pm to
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i find their perspective to be very 'girly'


I agree. My eyes gloss over when I get to a three-page description of their "feewings." Sadly the EBR library is now favoring women authors about two to one in their new acquisitions.
Posted by Martini
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 9:59 pm to
A cookbook is fiction?

Laura Hillenbrand wrote Unbroken - the biography of Louis Zamperini. She also wrote the nonfiction book Seabiscuit.

And Jane Austen, in addition to Pride and Prejudice also wrote Sense and Sensibility.
Posted by dmjones
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:02 pm to
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6 pages and no one has mentioned a young Jewish girl named Anne Frank.



I did.
Posted by lsu480
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:06 pm to
Posted by lsu480
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:07 pm to
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A cookbook is fiction?

Laura Hillenbrand wrote Unbroken - the biography of Louis Zamperini. She also wrote the nonfiction book Seabiscuit.

And Jane Austen, in addition to Pride and Prejudice also wrote Sense and Sensibility.


All of those, and many more, were already mentioned
Posted by dmjones
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:09 pm to
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Lol


Harper Lee helped in the research and edited Truman Capote's final draft for In Cold Blood, whether you like it or not.
Posted by Martini
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:12 pm to
Dorothy Baker - Young Man with a Horn

Olivia Manning wrote the series Fortunes of War

Mary Higgins Clark

Karen Blixen - Out of Africa

Who wrote The Hunger Games?

And there are plenty others.

Posted by Martini
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:17 pm to
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All of those, and many more, were already mentioned


Seabiscuit and Sense and Sensibilty were not however your point of only fiction is not valid.
Posted by Martini
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:19 pm to
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I did


Yes you did and I missed it and apparently lsu480 thinks it is fiction.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:43 pm to
Aww, that's sweet. Thanks for the lesson. Enjoy your books written by women.
Posted by Starseed22
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Posted on 6/21/16 at 10:50 pm to
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