Women in the Book Club

Over the past five years, a the observer's annual debu novelist feature has showcase forty four writers, 33 of whom were female. Youwill find similar ratios on prizeshort lists. Men were missing among the recent names of nominees for the coster first novel award. I really hope that one day we can live in a world where we are first and foremost judged on our aesthetic merit,. Anything to do with our identity is incidental, neither a help nor a hindrance. Literature is meant to be healing self, healing and healing sot a more global or national wound. It's wonderful if men want to read women. And i think a good reading plan will be organically diverse