{"id":263,"date":"2004-01-10T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/10\/you-go-girl\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:55:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:55:31","slug":"you-go-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/01\/10\/you-go-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU GO, GIRL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Modern Library published its list of the top 100 20th century English-language novels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminista.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feminista.com<\/a> was outraged that the list, compiled by a panel of NINE men and ONE woman, included 92 works by men, and 8 by women. <b>So they made their own list:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminista.com\/archives\/v2n3\/100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100 Great 20th Century English-language Works of Fiction by Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some reading to do. As usual. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>(<i>thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/ricecricket.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ricecricket<\/a> for posting this in <lj comm=\"alphabet_soup\">!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing that Joan Aiken passed away recently and reading several LJ journals praise of her work, I realized that I might somehow have made it through my childhood without reading any of her books, and especially her best-known, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. I plan to rectify this pathetic oversight quickly. However, upon further reflection, I realized I had indeed read something by her, and that one of her collections of short stories was one I read as an adolescent and the images it gave me were so powerful that I hunted it down and found it again as an adult: <b>A Necklace of Raindrops<\/b>. I&#8217;ve probably read other books by her in my mad library-fiend days, but none that stuck out quite so much. Now I&#8217;m off to re-read and regress. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Modern Library published its list of the top 100 20th century English-language novels, Feminista.com was outraged that the list, compiled by a panel of NINE men and ONE woman, included 92 works by men, and 8 by women. So they made their own list: 100 Great 20th Century English-language Works of Fiction by Women I&#8217;ve got some reading to do. As usual. \ud83d\ude42 (thanks to ricecricket for posting this in !) *** Upon hearing that Joan Aiken passed away recently and reading several LJ journals praise of her work, I realized that I might somehow have made it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6359,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/6359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}