Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer,...
I'm going to gush because I don't possess the skill to organize words in a manner that will adequately laud this wonderful book. Everything about it was beautiful - the descriptions of the landscape made me feel like I was in the forest, or in the fields. The last time I read something that brough...
There are books that have no ending and they continue living long after you've read it. To Kill a Mockingbird was one of them and this is another. It is not I suppose so much that I didn't want it to end, I just can't imagine there being an ending.I want to come back a year later and find out what h...
This is really sort of three novels in one: Predators, Moth Love, and Old Chestnuts. The book alternates among the three stories, which take place within a few miles of each other. The stories do turn out to be related in the end, but each reads like a separate story. I liked the Moth Love thread...
wow, i love this woman's writing. she makes me think about things and appreciate things that i'm ashamed to say i usually don't think about. (i need to weed my small patch of garden but now i can't go out and buy that weedkiller i was going to, because that'll kill some insects that i have no busi...
I think that one of the measures of a good writer is their ability to make the reader truly care about the characters and/or the issue that they are writing about.In this case, Barbara Kingsolver took a topic that I honestly could not have cared less about, and wrote a book that had me completely gr...
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