Why the clickbait? Just put the name of the novel in the title
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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What is it?
'The Women', about women in the Vietnamese war or something.
I tried to read The Nightingale and had to drop it because Hannah seemed to simultaneously want to insist on how french everything was (ooo, they're drinking café noir, not black coffee) but also didn't seem to understand how a language works.
Like, the main character was reflecting on her mom calling them her little nightingales because their last name is Rossignol, the french word for nightingale, and I'm like... She called you nightingales because your name is literally nightingale, why does this warrant multiple paragraphs of internal monologuing?
The plot and characters were fine if uninspired, but she put so little effort into the setting that the whole thing felt poorly slapped together. Which I guess tracks well enough with this article, too.
Work with elderly and run a book club.
The 15 ladies in it 70+ all enjoyed the women. They knew a woman who was a nurse in nam and they asked her about it and they said she fucking hated it.
Glad to see some more counter opinions to what seems like some pseudo profound novel with people who actually lived that shit still around.
Good article.
My book club read this and I tried but it wasn't for me. I mostly read sci fi and fantasy though so I just thought it was out of my wheelhouse. I think the consensus in book club was that it wasn't as good as they wanted it to be.
I had no context for this, but the article was an amusing read.
Amusing.
Haha wow what an ending.