Comments on: Eva’s meme

By: 3M

3M — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:37:52 +0000

Eva and Chris, thanks for the recs.

Nik, Nancy, and Framed: I used to love King when I was in high school. I’m just a wimp now.

CJ, I enjoyed reading yours as well.

Ebony, I wouldn’t mind Latin, either!

Evie, thanks for the ideas! I do plan on reading the Atwood.

By: Evie

Evie — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:36:38 +0000

Okay, some feminist characters.

There’s Penelope from Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, who has a different take on her partner’s odyssey. Or the character’s from The Handmaid’s Tale or basically any thing else by Atwood.

There’s Rosie Little from Rose Little’s Cautionary Tales for Girls (which is a really great book if you haven’t read it), the female characters from Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales, and the great women characters of Drusilla Modjeska’s The Orchard.

There’s any of the female characters from Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates, and her other female characters of course.

There’s the female protagonist of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell-jar.

Those are some off the top of my head, I’m sure there are many more. Some of those are Australian and I guess you’re much more likely to have read the North American ones, but the Australian characters are just too good for me NOT to mention.

By: ebony

ebony — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:03:40 +0000

An overwhelming number of people picked Russian. I went with Latin.

By: CJHill

CJHill — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:22:03 +0000

We had the same answers with To Kill A Mockingbird and The Book Thief. I enjoyed reading your responses.

cjh

By: Framed

Framed — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:47 +0000

I’ve never read Stephen King and I haven’t read anything that makes me want to change my mind. Horror must not be my genre either. I enjoyed reading your answers.

By: Nancy, aka Bookfool

Nancy, aka Bookfool — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:18:00 +0000

You’ve just described my dream library! BTW, I’ve been avoiding horror for over 20 years. I do read select titles (exactly one Stephen King novel that my friend insisted I *must* read, The Green Mile) but not many. I don’t enjoy being horrified.

By: nik

nik — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:51:07 +0000

I shy away from Stephen King novels, too. I don’t know why. I’ve never read him.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:32:05 +0000

How about Dagny Taggart from Atlas Shrugged? She didn’t put up with much.

Great that you found Atwood and Shields through bloggers.

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By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:17:15 +0000

Thanks for playing along! I love your social event….*tries hard to think of feminists*….the only one that’s coming to mind is Mary Russell. But I’m sure there are a ton more out there!