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The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

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Rating: 3.5 Stars In a nutshell: Four women living outside D.C. in the 1960s find themselves at crossroads, motivated by reading ‘The Feminine Mystique.’ Best for: Those who enjoy stories of women finding themselves. Those who need a reminder of where we’ve been given where we are headed. Quote that made me think: “Somebody has to have the babies, don’t they? If they can?” Why I chose it: I was looking for a book about women, written by a women, as I’ve been reading a […]

“A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

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When I was young, my mother had a Montgomery Ward credit card. This is not newsworthy, except at some point, in my late teens or early twenties, Montgomery Ward went belly up and my mother’s reaction was…outsized. It’s not like we shopped there a lot; it was a discount department store, the middle ground between someplace like Nordstrom and K-Mart. But then she reminded me that she had a credit card to that store. In her name. That’s how she said it. “It’s in my […]

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley, this did not affect my rating or review. This was such a great book to read in the current environment, however, the ending just didn’t stick, and I think that if Bostwick had left that part of the book alone the book would have been a 5 star favorite with me. “The Book Club for Troublesome Women” takes place in 1963 in a Virginia town called Concordia (just think close to Alexandria and D.C. The book […]



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