Women's Hotel
A Novel

This is a very polyphonic, densely written novel about women living in, well, a women’s hotel. The long sentences and exacting details pull you into the Biedermier and makes you want to never leave.......more

grand budapest hotel vibes in visual only. because this has moments of great writing, but not a lot of other stuff. it's occasionally sly and clear, but the characters aren't particularly memorable or full, there's not much in the way of plot, and i didn't feel much while reading it (including basic c......more

I admit that I doubt if I am the proper audience for this novel. I acknowledge that I have never read anything by this author, so I really had no great expectations. However, based on the recap, I expected something a little different from what I got. This book was compared to Lessons in Chemistry,......more

Made it 35% of the way and had to stop; reading it was a chore rather than a pleasure. "Women's Hotel" is a book where you absolutely must love the narrative voice, because there's not much else going on—no plot, no character development—and I did not like this narrative voice one bit. I felt trappe......more

One might be tempted to approach Women’s Hotel by the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist with a modicum of hope, given its purported depth and charm. Yet, as the veil lifts, one is met not with a grand opus but rather a work of such insipid mediocrity that it calls into question......more