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The premise on this one sounded so interesting. I am in the middle of reading it right now. I have to be honest though, I am struggling. The way she writes is hard for me to comprehend. It isn't that it is academic or literary, but it is like fragmented (Sort of like my sentence here! LOL)
I am about half way right now and I am waiting to see how it all fits together. So hopefully it can pull through.
I want to see how other people feel about it.
That's too bad Vicki. I hope the writing gets better.
Vicki Willis wrote: "The premise on this one sounded so interesting. I am in the middle of reading it right now. I have to be honest though, I am struggling. The way she writes is hard for me to comprehend. It isn't t..."
I read this one a few months ago. Been having trouble with my computer so haven't checked in. Worth reading but sometimes difficult to see the path.
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rated it 3 stars
A different book. I enjoyed it for it's out-there plot, and the characters were intriguing. I wanted to see what each woman would decide!
We had a tie this month so we will be reading two nominees: Red Clocks and Vox.
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.
Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro's best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or "mender," who brings all their fates together when she's arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt.