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A review by jkclemen
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
2.0
Ya, the pacing really felt glacial, I would have fleeting moments of increased interest followed by vast stretches of uninteresting story.
I feel like the premise makes it very difficult to have better pacing due to it just being the women talking. Though even evaluating it as a philosophical text it still falls short cause the women can’t read anyway and develop there ideas based on random anecdotes and the religious passages they have memorized from their instruction from then men. Everything seems superficial and very jumbled.
Having the narrator be the man too was just odd he kept adding in all this lovey dovey feelings about the girls and his random thoughts. I get what they were trying to do at the end but even still it just feels so clunky through the main part of the story.
Would maybe not recommend unless the content really speaks to you :/
I feel like the premise makes it very difficult to have better pacing due to it just being the women talking. Though even evaluating it as a philosophical text it still falls short cause the women can’t read anyway and develop there ideas based on random anecdotes and the religious passages they have memorized from their instruction from then men. Everything seems superficial and very jumbled.
Having the narrator be the man too was just odd he kept adding in all this lovey dovey feelings about the girls and his random thoughts. I get what they were trying to do at the end but even still it just feels so clunky through the main part of the story.
Would maybe not recommend unless the content really speaks to you :/