Okd, first post! Traveling across Montana on Interstate 90 and 94 reminds me of one of the greatest American stories - the journey of Lewis and Clark across the Louisiana Purchase in the very early 1800s. And that is precisely what I have done today. The Yellowstone River has to be at flood stage ...
Really like 1.5 Stars. Dellarobia and Cub (first warning that I should stop reading this IMMEDIATELY) have been married since high school due to an accidental pregnancy. They have spent the past decade practically sharecropping under the thumb of Cub’s mother and father. While on her way to a try...
Whenever I pick up a Kingsolver novel, I know I'm picking up a jewel. Even the librarian that was checking me out could not contain her "You're so lucky to have this" statement, and that's how I felt, lucky. I think I might have even found a penny on the sidewalk that afternoon. My intuition was on ...
I was enchanted by the beginning of this book, and hopeful that it wouldn't become too heavy-handed with the environmental themes. No such luck. (FWIW, I agree with Kingsolver wholeheartedly that folks need to be paying attention to climate change, but sometimes she can preach to the choir a little ...
I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. It touches on so many subjects in a meaningful way: global warming, marriage, education, media, etc. I would recommend it to most women I know.
I used to like Barbara Kingsolver and I owe my organic and local meat and veggie shopping to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. However, I was not at all impressed with this one. As an intelligent girl from a white trash southern family, I can relate to Dellarobia a bit. I know how hard it is to be the ...
This is an AMAZING book! I find myself recommending it to customers, friends, and strangers. Set in rural Appalachia, a small farming town becomes the center of attention when the migrating monarch butterflies settle in the local mountains instead of their usual destination in Mexico. The strange...
On the down side, for me, too much on themes (class, religion, climate change, marriage and infidelity, family etc), too many caricatures, too much politics posing as narrative and not enough plot. On the plus side a wonderfully detailed account of a family and its inhabitants, a sympathetic female ...
Some fiction isn’t “about” much of anything. Flight Behavior is “about” a lot of things. Climate change is the "big" thing, and it’s considered in terms of the scientific facts and the popular resistance they’ve encountered in many places. Marital and family disharmony is another key element of the ...
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