tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post3149939070150001265..comments2024-03-28T07:56:38.659+00:00Comments on The View from the Blue House: October readsRob Kitchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05567424969308636082noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post-85901070136940540672015-11-02T17:51:10.447+00:002015-11-02T17:51:10.447+00:00I still have a bias though in the numbers. For me...I still have a bias though in the numbers. For me I think it is partially an artifact of sub-genres I read - noir, hardboiled, comic crime, espionage, procedural, and historical 1930s-50s (last two are pretty gender neutral), but not cozies or psychologicals, and I tend to shy away from domestically focused tales. I loved all the tart noirs in late 1990s/early 2000s, but they all seemed to peter out. I agree many women write great hard-boiled and should get a bigger (male) audience.Rob Kitchinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05567424969308636082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825564497920015595.post-1118717699001184722015-11-02T12:30:13.489+00:002015-11-02T12:30:13.489+00:00You are one of the few males ( along with my husba...You are one of the few males ( along with my husband) who seems to read books written by women as well as men. I notice this every week on forgotten books. How few of the men ever choose to review a book by a woman. Yet if we look at crime fiction, many women write fairly hard-boiled crime fiction. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com