Today’s review comes from Frank. You can find out more about Frank here https://franklparker.com/about/
Frank has been reading The Memory by Judith Barrow
When I selected this book for review Rosie pointed out that it was a book that leans “heavily towards women’s fiction”. Now that I have read the book I understand what she means by that. I still think that it is a mistake to categorise readers in this way. I understand the importance of categorising books by genre. That helps potential readers decide whether a book is one they would enjoy. But most readers surely read across genres: they might choose romantic fiction one week, a mystery the next week and a thriller a week later. When you describe a book as “women’s fiction” you are not so much categorising the book as the reader.
To the extent that this book is about a woman’s life it…
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Thank you for sharing your fist review for us, I hope that it will be the first of many.
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Great review, Frank! I like your point about classifying a book as “women’s fiction,” and am happy to see that this did not deter you from reading Barrow’s novel.
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Thank you for sharing this here, Frank.
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