Speaking of books...

Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. She's the 11th woman to win this prize! So today's a big day.

Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook is considered a pioneering feminist work. Lessing herself rejects the term "feminist," and has basically said that feminists want to get rid of men, but we'll forgive her because she's 87. However, the Swedish Academy (ie the folks who gave her the prize) call her "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." She was famously deemed "unfeminine" when the novel came out in 1962, to which she responded, "Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise.”

Full disclosure: I didn't know who she was before today. Now I'm pretty sure I'm gonna run out and buy her book. Yay female Nobelists! Too bad she didn't get that $1.6 million when she had more time left to spend it.