{"id":94,"date":"2012-04-04T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/do-you-prefer-male-or-female-novelists-from-the-blog-archives.html"},"modified":"2012-04-04T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:05:00","slug":"do-you-prefer-male-or-female-novelists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/do-you-prefer-male-or-female-novelists\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Prefer Male Or Female Novelists? &#8211; From The Blog Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g823hTVRChA\/TXS-oWqtRXI\/AAAAAAAAEGA\/vRclgFKGhiA\/s1600\/coffee%2Band%2Blaptop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g823hTVRChA\/TXS-oWqtRXI\/AAAAAAAAEGA\/vRclgFKGhiA\/s400\/coffee%2Band%2Blaptop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5581295438707639666\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Which do you prefer, male or female novelists?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been an avid reader for as long as I can remember, but, when I think back in time to the stories I&#8217;ve read in my life, it appears that I seem to be partial to female authors. This isn&#8217;t intentional, but, when I think about the stories that I&#8217;ve read, about 90% of the authors are female and about 10% are male. Why? I don&#8217;t know. I guess since I&#8217;m a woman, maybe I can relate to the stories of romance and women&#8217;s fiction &#8211; which are usually written by females, more so than the novels penned by males. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Please don&#8217;t misunderstand me. I&#8217;ve read a lot of great books by male authors over the years<\/strong>, but when I&#8217;m in a bookstore, scanning the shelves, looking for great books, or, when I&#8217;m on Amazon or Barnes And Noble.com, looking for a novel to purchase, I usually end up purchasing a female author!<\/p>\n<p>On my this blog, I do book reviews. If you scan through the old posts, you&#8217;ll see that most of the books that I review are by female authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what&#8217;s your preference, male or female novelists, and why do you believe you have a preference?<\/strong> Please share your responses with in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which do you prefer, male or female novelists? I&#8217;ve been an avid reader for as long as I can remember, but, when I think back in time to the stories I&#8217;ve read in my life, it appears that I seem to be partial to female authors. 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