Our group read a book with a main character who never speaks, and it split us down the middle

We picked 'The Silent Woman' for our club in April... half of us thought the quiet protagonist was deep and sad. The other half got mad and called her boring. I was in the 'boring' camp until my friend Jane said, 'Maybe her silence is the loudest part of the story.' That made me go back and read the last chapter again, and I saw things I missed. Has your club ever had a book where the writing style itself caused a big fight?

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burns.richard7d ago

Actually, "The Silent Woman" is a biography, not a novel with a quiet character.

tyler_burns667d ago

Reminds me of a bookstore clerk who once argued with a customer about whether a book was fiction or memoir. The whole thing got heated over where it should be shelved. They nearly came to blows in the biography section. Sometimes people just dig in on the smallest details. Makes you wonder why the label matters more than the actual reading.