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July 2024 Book Club - The Women

I have finally started this book and really need to make myself READ! I love books, but lately I seem to fall asleep way too easily trying to read.
 
scrapchyck said:
I have finally started this book and really need to make myself READ! I love books, but lately I seem to fall asleep way too easily trying to read.
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That happens to me sometimes too and then it takes me a lot longer to get through a book. Oh well. Lol!
 
I just heard that this is going to be a movie adaptation. Along with her The Nightingale and The Great Alone! I'm thrilled.


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I've finally started reading more regularly again, so I'm really getting into it now. I just had to give up this stupid game I've played on my phone for six years called Township. When I don't play it, I make time for reading. I loved this thing that Frankie tells herself: Words were creators of worlds, you had to be careful with them.

That really hit me. Once you say something out loud, life can go a whole 'nother direction!
 
tiffany scraps said:
This was a good book, however I like several of her other books better.
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Just curious which ones of hers you liked better. I remember liking The Great Alone a lot and I also loved The Nightingale which was the first book I read by her.
 
I enjoyed Firefly Lane, and Winter Garden. Night Road was amazing, but a hard read as a mother. I didn't think about it and read it right when my son got his drivers license. It stayed with me.
 
Karen said:
And what did you think?
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It actually made me think about a lot of the people I go to church with, the ones that are older than me by 10-12 years or more, the ones who probably served. You can tell they have a story, but they're the ones that have overcome, I think...you don't see the ones who haven't in church usually. I was just a kid during this time (graduated in 1980) and though I remember seeing it all on the news and living in the environment of the times (music, TV shows--so political), I was still pretty isolated, living in a small town in Oregon. I remember the controversy over the Vietnam memorial even being built. It was a design that got so much criticism, even though it's amazing. And it made me think about how we still don't give our vets enough support when they return from combat zones, because addiction and homelessness and the inability to cope are still very real in that demographic. It made me sad for all the people who aren't seen by even their own families, how hard it is to understand when you haven't experienced something. I was briefly part of the military community (married 4 years to an airman), so I did live among some of the older guys and their gallows humor. But there was A LOT of drinking and who knows what else going on. It also made me think about people in emergency services these days, especially in large urban areas. How do any of them cope with all the messed up stuff they see?

It was well-researched, but there was one anachronism that bothered me...no one was going around saying, "Girrrrrl...." like we do today! I was like, "Nobody said that back then..." but again, I lived in rural Oregon...maybe they did somewhere.
 
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