{"id":210,"date":"2015-01-30T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-09-24T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T17:43:09","slug":"a-year-of-womens-voices-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Women&#8217;s Voice&#8217;s Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0691-1024x681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0691-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I started my Year of Women&#8217;s Voices project about this time last year. As an obsessive reader, book reviews are one of my favorite posts to write. \u00a0Each review features my thoughts on the craft of writing and observations about story telling learned from each writer. I have arranged my 2014 posts in chronological order, most recent first. \u00a0If there are writers here that you have not read, challenge yourself to read one new author this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=218\">Megan Hart: Lovely Wild<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0023small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0023small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=220\">Zoe Kessler: ADHD According to Zoe<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Author-Zoe-Kessler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Author-Zoe-Kessler.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=231\">Fiona Zedde: Delicious Desire<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0549-1024x828.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0549-1024x828.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=234\">Alisse Waterston: My Father&#8217;s War<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0352-1024x952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0352-1024x952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"185\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=240\">N. K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mckellphoto4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mckellphoto4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=242\">Patti Smith: Just Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0214-572x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0214-572x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=245\">Octavia Butler: Powerful and Evocative<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0089-897x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC_0089-897x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=250\">Jenny Lawson: Let&#8217;s Pretend this Never Happened<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN0202_edited-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN0202_edited-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=253\">Katherine Dunn: Geek Love<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN0034-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN0034-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0The post that started it all:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/?p=254\">A Year of Women&#8217;s Voice: Why I am Only Reviewing Books by Women<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN0168-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.writingwhiledistracted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSCN0168-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I started my Year of Women&#8217;s Voices project about this time last year. 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