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Permalink Reply by Millie Hreczany on November 12, 2009 at 8:47pm

I am purchasing the book ‘Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice.” By Krista Jacob, Gloria Feldt, and Rebecca Walker.

I’m interested in learning more about abortion, future generations, and the way society is taught to view women.

I want to know more about abortions and the role of men. Why are there men protesting at abortion clinics? Why is there a push by bishops to force a religious view of abortion into law? A religious view should not be law. What happened to the separation of church and state?

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Permalink Reply by Amy Ferris on November 13, 2009 at 1:19am

this is just so brilliant & inspired (thank you kamy!) -- buying a basketful of great, fabulous, generous, funny, talented, inspiring, courageous, and raw to the bone women authors tomorrow.
xox
amy ferris

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Permalink Reply by Marni Penning on November 13, 2009 at 1:46am

I bought The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, the first book in a coming trilogy by young novelist Leanna Renee Hieber. Devoured it in two days - a delicious Harry Potter for adult women! :)
http://www.amazon.com/Strangely-Beautiful-Tale-Percy-Parker/dp/0843...

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Permalink Reply by Naomi Heilig on November 13, 2009 at 7:43am

Hope Edelman's The Possibility of Everything. The author examines her belief system as it slowly transforms.

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Permalink Reply by Eunice Lipton on November 13, 2009 at 10:03am

Okay, I just bought Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Sarah Waters', The Little Stranger and A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the Booker nominees. Kill me! Recently read and enjoyed Janice M.K.Lee's The Piano Teacher TOO. And want to recommend the oldie but newie (now, the Nobel!) Herta Muller's The Land of Green Plums--hard, gripping terrifying.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Thompson on November 13, 2009 at 11:12am

I read Kamy's letter to my husband last night and he just shook his head in disbelief...then we got in the car and drove to Barnes and Noble! Only bought a few because of budgetary constraints (and a shelf full of great women writers at home already!): Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay; Queen Bees & Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman; The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel; Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt; Buddhism for Mothers by Sarah Napthali; and Supernanny--How to get the best out of your children by Jo Frost.

I just finished Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry (having been a huge fan of The Time-Traveler's Wife --the book, not the movie thank you very much) and loved it. See my review on my LA Hot Mom examiner page: http://tinyurl.com/yhdmnsc

I also enjoyed Masha Hamilton's 31 Hours. Beautiful prose, topical subject. Another great female writer supported by a small, independent publisher called Unbridled Books. You can check them out my review here:http://tinyurl.com/yl7j36b.

Let's do this girls. Perhaps other publications will pick up the mantle and include some female writers this year because we KNOW we exist. Holla!!!

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Permalink Reply by Meg Waite Clayton on April 27, 2010 at 11:13am

>I also enjoyed Masha Hamilton's 31 Hours. I ahd the pleasure of reading this one for a blurb before it was published, and absolutely LOVED it!

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Permalink Reply by Amy Jo Sprague on November 13, 2009 at 12:45pm

I ordered three books (one inspired by Amber Housh):
Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
Girl Trouble: Stories (P.S) by Holly Goddard Jones
and
Asta in the Wings (Tin House New Voice) --Jane Elizabeth Watson
I'm so excited for them to come!!!

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Permalink Reply by Amy Jo Sprague on November 13, 2009 at 1:13pm

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Permalink Reply by Jessica DuLong on November 13, 2009 at 1:32pm

Thanks so much, Kamy, for rallying us to this important cause!

I bought:
Lauren Weber's In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue

Julie Metz's Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

I preordered Elyssa East's Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, which comes out December 1st.

And I wrote: My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson, which came out from Free Press in September.

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Permalink Reply by Lori Rotskoff on November 13, 2009 at 1:45pm

I just bought "One and the Same," by Abigail Pogrebin; "True North", by Jill Ker Conway, "Almost a Woman," by Esmeralda Santiago, and "When Everything Changed" by Gail Collins. And...judging from the PW list, everything HASN"T changed enough!

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Permalink Reply by Randy Susan Meyers on November 13, 2009 at 5:31pm

I pre-ordered THE QUICKENING by Michelle Hoover, Other Press (June 29, 2010) and I bought THE GATHERING by Anne Enright (Man Booker Prize, 2007) Grove Press

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