Bordados / Embroideries vs The Love of a Good Woman: Which Should You Read?
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Bordados / Embroideries
A collection of stories and anecdotes, told in the form of a graphic novel, reveals the love and sex lives of a group of women as revealed during an afternoon of conversation and tea-drinking.
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The Love of a Good Woman
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes - the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Bordados / Embroideries is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 6 for The Love of a Good Woman.
- The Love of a Good Woman has the widest readership — 9843 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Bordados / Embroideries | The Love of a Good Woman | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (9843) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (64) | 3.2 (9) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (20) |
Reception
| Bordados / Embroideries | The Love of a Good Woman | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 64 | 9843 |
| Editions | 19 | 37 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 14300 |
| Reading it now | — | 872 |
| Written reviews | — | 1008 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 283 |
| Pages | 136 | 360 |