A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club)

There were some parts that I found touching. Quick read and liked how the author gave you both Ruby and Jack's perspective. I wouldn't read it again though.

Quick and Meaty. It takes you to a time and a place you've only thought could be possible as you are passing through the "South". She is very visual with the language of her characters...

Simple and to the point. Got through this one fairly quickly. Loved the dialect in which it was written. Sometimes love is found where you're not looking.

This was well-done! I love how Kay Gibbons writes in dialects. The characters are accessible and likeable.

Simple small book about a young woman (Rita Pitt Woodrow) from a fairly wealthy family who eventually marries a simple farm hand (Blinking Jack Stokes). How these two dissimilar people find true and lasting love is the essence of simplicity and beauty. I loved this book. It is a mirror of Americana.

This book was one of the ones that I chose to read for AP Lit, but It is actually one of my favorites now, amazzzzing book!

I think this would be a good book but I so struggle with the vernacular that I am not up for it at least right now.

beuatiful, tender, simply told story. very poignant and sweet. actually, i will read it again as it has been years since the last time i read it...

This novel is a love story told on a small, everyday scale, which makes it that much more heartbreaking. An older man makes a charismatic and beautiful younger woman his wife - and to everyone's surprise, they truly love each other. When he loses her to illness it is hard for him to go on. His sadness was so honest and simple - it really got to me.

So is it a rule for Oprah to only endorse novels about abused/abandoned women who must struggle to survive after the man is gone? Thought so.