The Book Club for Troublesome Women: A Novel

Fair read not spectacular maybe 3 stars

I liked the characters and the story of women helping women. This book felt very "beige".

Some of the writing was quite good, and I thought it was going to be wonderful when I first started. I was a very young mom in 1963 and had no way to identify with any of these women. Maybe our mothers were like them? The other older woman in our group, five years younger than I, loved the book because it reminded her of how her mother lived then. But the younger women in our club didn't like it at all. We were hoping for some actual troublesome women and found none. Quite pedantic, and I struggled to finish the book. I was furious when it ended so abruptly. I was waiting for something more, but I didn't get it. The best part of the book was the discussion of the Kennedy assassination. I knew it was 1963 and figured that was going to be part of the story. I think there must have been parts of the book that kept me reading, but it was so forgettable that I can barely review it.

It's sad to say books like this about women are still needed but they are. Interesting to learn about women in the 60s and the discrimination they faced.

"The Book Club for Troublesome Women" was an INCREDIBLE read that I have already recommended to my book club. Reading about the lives of these women was inspirational, often funny, and so dang relatable.