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My pick for today's #augustphotochallenge is Catelyn Stark. Not only is she strong in herself, but she raised a group of super badass kids including her stepson Jon Snow. #favefemalecharacters #favfemalecharacters

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mauveandrosysky Yes! I feel like she's often overlooked but I love her so much. 8y

BekahB Awesome choice! I love her character! 8y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @mauveandrosysky @BekahB I was looking for a positive stepmother character, since I'm a stepmother too. She's fantastic! 8y

Lola I am dying for her to make a return in the next books! She came back from the dead (sort of) and then not another word about her! Damn you George!! 😜 8y

BarbaraTheBibliophage @Lola That's exactly how I feel! Grrr! 8y

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Tampa | Alissa Nutting

I couldn't let today's #AugustPhotoChallenge go by without shouting out the legendary female characters of contemporary crime fic - both on the page and those who create them! There's nothing I love more than a female character who DGAF - and as time goes on, the more I realize Amy Dunne is in a class of her own. #favfemalecharacters #teamamy

Gayan Absolutely. 8y

LitHousewife I can't look at a quiz in a magazine without thinking of her. 😍 8y

ScrappyMags Yes! No wilting flowers there! 8y

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LeahBergen 👍🏼👍🏼 8y

katedensen OMG Tampa!!!!!!! What a horrifying book. But so well written! 8y

BekahB Totally agree! I haven't read Tampa yet, but it's waiting for me on my Kindle. 8y

LisaJo I am in the middle of reading Eileen. I don't know where it's going to go, but right now she is just a miserable petty person. Would not want to be her friend, but love reading about her. 8y

brendanmleonard Tampa is best read as a black, black, black comedy. 8y

BookishFeminist You are going to yell at me but I hated Gone Girl 😱 (Not to disparage your worship of it but I needed to say it because I can't hold it back any longer! lol) 8y

ElizaTodd @kylienoele !!!!! 8y

brendanmleonard @BookishFeminist it's all good! I know people who feel the same way and I can see why/understand their reasons. It's a work that I think is not "divisive," but supports a wide variety of opinions and those discussions are fun as well ?. I just really connected with it and even I'm not sure why some days. ? (I hope that wasn't condescending) 8y

BookishFeminist @brendanmleonard you're not being condescending at all- if you connect with a book, you connect. I didn't like it because I found the way she drew the characters to be very misogynist even though I don't think she quite intended it that way. But I do see its appeal and didn't bail on it like I did with her others 😂 (I begrudgingly made it through Dark Places but omg I wanted to quit so bad) 8y

brendanmleonard @BookishFeminist I definitely can see that, and I want to reread the book with that lens someday soon. (I have had a hard time getting through Flynn's other work...Megan Abbott all the way.) 8y

BookishFeminist @brendanmleonard I still haven't read Abbott yet 👀 Where should I start? 8y

BookishFeminist @brendanmleonard Also thanks for having a convo! 😭 I kept seeing your statuses and was like OMG...can't. hold. back! But didn't want to ruin the book for you bc I am 💯 here for book obsessions. 8y

brendanmleonard @BookishFeminist it depends, if you like classic film noir/pulps, I'd say the song is you or queenpin; if you like stories of adolescent longing, I say the end of everything 8y

brendanmleonard @BookishFeminist I think criticism/discussion of the things you love is so important, and one of the things that I love about Litsy is having these discussion 8y

BookishFeminist @brendanmleonard I am more into classic noir/pulp but here for both of those things, so I will add them to my ever expending TBR 8y

BookishFeminist also I completely agree about having critical discussion but know so many people are uncomfortable with it when it's their favorite. Critique doesn't mean bad imo. Litsy is really the best platform for it though bc there are so many different perspectives & usually very respectful. 8y

BibliophileBytheSea Loved Tampa and Eileen. I would add Perfect Days to the list by montes😜 8y

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The White Album | Joan Didion

Resisting the urge to go with my "easy" answer for today's #augustphotochallenge . One of my #favfemalecharacters has to be the character of "Joan Didion" in the nonfiction of Joan Didion. In putting herself back in the narrative, Didion becomes almost an avatar for late 20th century American malaise and confusion, and the deep emotions that result from being unmoored in time and space. It's brilliant - and impossible to imitate.

katedensen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Yes, yes, yes. 8y

squarepeginroundhole Love her 8y

Zelma 👍 this is so timely. One of my podcasts just went on a very humorous (but not insulting) riff on Joan Didion's Didion-ness. At one point the hosts talked about just wanting a mind portal to her brain. It killed me. 😂 8y

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