Phenomenal Women Author Tag

[@fractured_stories]

Great topic! Enjoyed your recommendations. Thanks.

[@BookLadyLinda]

Great choices... and that book about the Carmelite nun is something I'd like to read. I've already been tagged on this, but then, I've been tagged on lots of tags and never did them. Maybe someday I will.

[@eMsBooksAreEverywhere]

Thank you for tagging me! I’ll get to work on this! And also thanks for reminding me of Mary Roberts Rinehart!

[@cozycottagechapters]

I've never heard of Mary Roberts Rinehart, but she sounds wonderful! I'll definitely be looking into her books. Any ideas on where's a good place to start? Also, The Sound at the Scaffold sounds amazing! Maybe I can try to track down a copy 😅

[@faithbooks7906]

My favorite of Rinehart’s so far is The Case of Jenny Brice but I think the first one I read was The Circular Staircase. I have read 7 and am now currently reading my 8th of her novels. Most are mysteries but not all. Some are humorous or more psychological in stead of an actual mystery novel. The Song of the Scaffold is wonderful! I hope enjoy reading both it and Rinehart!

[@hanichay1163]

I think of the G names: Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Goudge, Rumer Godden. And I love Flannery O’ Connor.

[@faithbooks7906]

@@hanichay1163 I love Gaskell, Goudge and Godden!! I have to admit I can only take very small doses of Flannery. Too brutal for me.

[@Eden-Restored]

I’ve never heard of Mary Roberts Rinehart. Do you know I’ve never even read Agatha Christie!! Which one would you recommend I start with? If a character stays with you then it’s the sign of a great novel and writer. Is Romolo very dark? As I’m not great if it’s too dark. I have read the Mill on the Floss a long time ago.

[@faithbooks7906]

Romola is dark but in a very profound way if that makes sense. Not in a nihilist edgy way like today’s works but dark in a more philosophical ‘how can we cope best with the evil we encounter in our lives’ way. It has a great ending. It is a fairly dense Victorian work. Eliot has a high style of writing but to me she is so worth the effort. She’s marvelous and she asks deep questions. For Agatha Christie I would recommend starting with Murder at the Vicarage if you want a cozy mystery which introduces Miss Marple. If you want to read what I think is her most chilling and brilliant, read And Then There Were None. Also if you want to meet Poirot her most famous detective you can’t go wrong with Murder on the Orient Express.

[@Eden-Restored]

@@faithbooks7906 Thanks Faith. I will check out those titles by Agatha Christie. The Miss Marple one might be a good place to start. 😊

[@hanichay1163]

Fave woman character: Jane Eyre. Mill on the Floss is soooo sad.

[@faithbooks7906]

@@hanichay1163 I have heard it is depressingly sad and it seems to be the one people like the least often but I want to read all of Eliot.