As is often the case with Barbara Kingsolver’s novels, it took more time than I preferred to get hooked into Flight Behavior. But once engrossed, my persistence was proven worthwhile. Unlike her other novels, however, this one’s first chapter turned me off because it read like a steamy romance, some...
http://thefaultinourblogs.blogspot.comWell, Kingsolver's writing style stretched this one out to two weeks for me to get through. That's not a bad thing, I'm kind of glad I took my time to get through it because Kingsolver is such an adept writer. Her rich, dense, nuanced, prose is a feat of nature ...
Here is an excerpt of an interview Barbara Kingsolver gave to one of the literary journals I subscribe to, if anyone is interested: https://thesunmagazine.org/issues/459/the_moral_universe Kingsolver, who was trained as a biologist and did science journalism for a while, weaves climate change ...
I love and admire Kingsolver as an author. She had me at The Bean Tree. When I began Flight Progression, I was immediately taken with the names of characters: Dellarobia(I thought of the blue pigment on my water color pallette), Ovid, Byron, Hester, Cordelia, Preston. This is Appalachia. I expected ...
This is a book of our time. One that tackles the debate over global warming head on. I found this book to be very interesting and thought provoking and found the Ms. Kingsolver's arguments and analogies were spot on. Take for example, when Ovid was speaking with a reporter who felt that scientist...
Butterflies that changed someone's mind about an affair? Butterflies that have the entire country flocking to Knoxville, Tennessee? Yes...butterflies may be what Dellarobia needed to change her boring farm life into something more exciting and something more inclined to her intelligence. Migratin...
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