Friday, December 10, 2010

Faves & Raves from The Women's Bookshop

I was so impressed with this graphic that Auckland's The Women's Bookshop has created that I asked owner Carole Beu to send it to me.
Below the image on the poster appear the words:

THIS IS THE PILE OF BOOKS THAT NEEDS TO BE BESIDE YOUR BED.

Yes, go Carole !

Carole has since written to me as follows saying what inspired her to create this image:

We at The Women’s Bookshop had chosen our FAVES & RAVES of 2010 before all the Best Books Lists came out. We were horrified that the Listener’s Best 100 Books contained less than a third by women, that the ten best fiction books in Canvas included NO books by women, that Jim Flynn’s much publicized Torchlight List recommends 200 books predominantly by men.



The need for The Women’s Bookshop to exist is very evident.


Go to http://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/ to find our FIFTY-FIFTY WOMEN list – the top fifty books of the last fifty years written by women, selected by thousands of NZ readers nationwide.


Carole Beu

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh Carole (it is a song beginning) - well done - I thought no-one else had noticed and I was wondering if I dare to remark - and you have... and more than that, you've taken action.
Well done! thank you.

maggie@at-the-bay.com said...

Whoops - I wasn't meant to be anonymous - Maggie speaking.

Anonymous said...

Three points: women read more books than men overall. There appears to be a predominance of male reviewers who choose "best of' lists - or am I biassed? We in school libraries [and many parents] worry about trying to encourage boys into concentrated , extended reading - and yet there are so many male authors on 'best of' lists . No disrespect to the ability of those authors - but the imbalances don't add up. [Except one could say that boys come to extended reading later in life.]
Anyway - thank you Women's Bookshop, your readers and Carole for publicising another choice.
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