I know it may be hard to believe, but some of us are obsessed with books. And for those of us who are, it is even harder to believe that there are folks out there who don't like books. We recognize kindred spirits who display the common signs of book fever:frequent visits to the bookstore for no specific reason, an overflowing book shelf, and a search in the forum yields a huge list both as poster and content.

Interesting read - so many women writers unrecognized during their time. Many that I was not previously aware of -wonderful to read the mini-bios of the women. I plan to add several to my to-read list.

This is pretty interesting--a compilation of mini-biographies of some of the best, brightest, most famous and most forgotten female literary minds ranging from our time and going all the way back to 2500 BC...

This is a collection of short biographies of important and influenctial women writers. It covers a wide selection of authors. I've got many new books to add to my "to-read" list from this book.

Cute. Highlight books of women authors from the first female author to today.

Filled with great tidbits and fun facts

Interesting subject but I could not get past the writing. It is just difficult to have any confidence in the information when the author is consistently fawning. I did not finish this.

I found this on my travels and thought it would be a natural for me (though I don't accept that there's such a thing as loving books "too much." That smacks of "get your nose out of that book" from when I was a kid).

The premise is a pretty simple one - shine a light on women of letters ranging from the very obscure (Mary Manley) to the much beloved (Maya Angelou, Margaret Mitchell) and tell us a bit about their lives and styles. Throw in some excellent quotes from them and other literary women, and you've got yourselves quite a little book. The bios are separated into different sequences such as banned authors and prolific authors, etc. At the end there is a guide for setting up one's own book group.

I ended up with some great quotes for my commonplace book, and some titles to add to my TBR.

Karah gave me this as a present several years ago.

You know how some people keep People magazine in their guest bathroom? This is what I have in mine. I hope entertaining for my guests.

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I think it goes without saying why I bought this book.