Linda answers “Why oh Why do the authors keep writing...”

Dorie - Cats&Books :) asked this question about The Girl Before:

Why oh Why do the authors keep writing titles with the word "Girl" in it??? I won't even look at these books because it's just gotten to be so ridiculous. After all that work of writing the novel why settle for a stereotypical name, I just don't get it!

Linda I don't understand why anyone would be upset by being referred to as a girl. It's just a word: girls and boys, men and women, lads and lasses, males a…moreI don't understand why anyone would be upset by being referred to as a girl. It's just a word: girls and boys, men and women, lads and lasses, males and females. It's all the same to me. What would have been a better title? (less)

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Gina Carroll I live in the South where women refer to themselves as girls all of the time-- even professional women. It is SO perplexing to me. A girl is a young, ...more
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