I've read a lot of books this winter, and this is one of the best!
#amreading #kingsolver
Woman with baby and disabled father-in-law; dilapidated house; Venus fly trap; Trump
Fascinating and disturbing #unsheltered #kingsolver #booksky
You may be familiar with the #folklore belief that a caul is lucky & protects you from drowning from #Dickens 's #DavidCopperfield
#AmericanLiterature has it in #Kingsolver 's #DemonCopperhead & in the name of #Salinger 's #HoldenCaulfield #CatcherintheRye
#LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature
Thoroughly enjoyed #DemonCopperhead - transporting the Social Realism of Dickens from the workhouses of London to the opium mills of Appalachia. So glad #Kingsolver is using the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in this #epidemic with both direct action and education. Bravo
2/2
reasoned criticism in our citizenship contract – for always. No emergency shutdowns allowed.”
Barbara Kingsolver-circa 2002
#DefendDemocracy #DumpTrump
#HandsOff #Indivisible #NoKings #NoFascism #NoTrump
#Protest #SaveDemocracy #StopTheCuts #StopTrump
#Trump #WeThePeople #Kingsolver
#50501movement #DayOfAction #DefendDemocracy #DumpTrump #FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff #Indivisible #NoFascism #NoTrump #PeoplesMovement #Protest #SaveDemocracy #StopTheCuts #StopTrump #Trump #WeThePeople #Kingsolver
Wow. Almost no words.
Read it. 🙏🏼
#Kingsolver #DemonCopperhead
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Sto leggendo "Un mondo nuovo" di Barbara #Kingsolver (quella di Demon Copperfield😉) e c'è un capitolo sulla visita di Nick, il nonno greco pazzo e repubblicano malatissimo di polmoni, a un ospedale, dove non viene visitato perché non ha l'assicurazione giusta. Incredibile. Viva il #SSN.
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Finished reading "Unsheltered" by Barbara Kingsolver. Like all Kingsolver books, a progressive fever dream. Interleaves two stories 100 years apart about families trying to find their way in a house that is (metaphorically and literally) collapsing on itself. #Kingsolver
A fluttering of monarch butterflies against a pale blue sky, sunlight making a stained glass window effect as it illuminates every detail of each wing, rises to join a clustering of the butterflies among the leaves of a tree. The colors are vibrant, the warm orange and yellow patterns of the butterfly wings with each segment edged in black, and the contrasting cool vivid green leaves, while the sky behind them is a blue so cool it's nearly white. Text printed on the cover reads, "Flight Behaviour, Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times Bestseller," plus a blurb by the Sunday Times saying, "This is what Kingsolver does best....She makes us think, believe and care - all at once."
For fun in February, A-Cover-A-Day, books I love; that's all.
#BookSky #FlightBehavior #Kingsolver #Appalachia #Mexico #Monarch #Butterflies #Nature #Climate #Migrant #Farming 💙📚🦋
The first two chapters were some of the most gut wrenching I've ever read, but I ended up rooting for the loveable key characters. This book is a wonderful blend of family drama, history, architecture & the natural world. I really enjoyed this one.
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
#booksky #fiction #kingsolver
Finished the book this #madrugal. Having grown up with my childhood spent alternately between urban NYC and rural VT, the book hit me pretty hard. Demon's being drawn to the sea was a magic wrinkle. The book hits even harder than #RequiemForADream. But #Kingsolver is a whole lot gentler than #Selby.
A Kindle e-reader sits on my knee in the sunshine. The cover page is “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
Next beach read. #ereader #demoncopperhead #kingsolver
Has anyone read Demon Copperhead by Barbar Kingsolver? Just started, but promises to be good! #booksky
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#Kingsolver
#Demoncopperhead
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Barbara #Kingsolver modernise Dickens, Sandra #Newman féminise "1984" d'Orwell, Percival #Everett (qui vient d'obtenir le National Book award) remet Mark Twain au goût du jour. La littérature est une banque. Doit-on continuer de tirer sur le compte ? www.nouvelobs.com/billet/20241...
#Kingsolver. In the @guardian. On misogyny and the Presidency. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/0...