The eye of the heron and other stories Book

I picked this book up mainly for the Le Guin story/novella, but read all of the stories. I actually got stuck in the middle of one, "Mab Gallen Recalled", and set the whole book aside for a couple of months, but it was worth finishing. It was a little difficult for me, though, reading all of these pieces from different voices because I have a hard time switching gears like that.

Even if they were written by "THE MOST EXCITING WOMEN WRITERS IN SCIENCE FICTION TODAY" (according to the back of the book, decades ago) I wouldn't jump to describe most of the stories themselves in this collection as "exciting". In a way I felt obligated to read all of them as Women in Sci Fi homework or something, but the payoff is that I got/get a Very Special Feeling from reading an anthology that only contains stories written by WOMEN. It's interesting to read what "we" write when it's just "us" outside of the romance genre.

I loved Eye of the Heron, though. Maybe I'm just an unsophisticated reader for not being able to pick up on the flaws other reviewers criticized because I thought it rocked pretty hard and would give it five stars standing alone outside of the anthology.