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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
A delicious platter of food for thought packaged in 23 essays by my favorite author - the best way to end 2024! While I love Ms. Kingsolver's fiction her essay collections/short stories hold a special place in my heart. A social justice call to action I feel especially pulled to put into play in this new year and a collection I highly recommend to all!
Ok, I really really liked the first story in this book that revolves around the saving of a human toddler by a mama black bear that is supposedly true. It made me weep. And, as much as I HATE to give B. Kingsolver anything less than a 4, I have to say the rest of these stories were pretty much rambling. I don't even remember what most of them were about.
I didn't finish this short anthology, and may or may not do so in the future. There are an awful lot of AWESOME books I'm ready to dig my teeth into this summer...so, we'll see. This book too was doomed to be left unfinished by a pesky library due date, and I'll be damned if a $0.10 library fine (and all the red tape one has to go thru to pay it) is going to keep me from graduating next year!!! ;)
I didn't finish this short anthology, and may or may not do so in the future. There are an awful lot of AWESOME books I'm ready to dig my teeth into this summer...so, we'll see. This book too was doomed to be left unfinished by a pesky library due date, and I'll be damned if a $0.10 library fine (and all the red tape one has to go thru to pay it) is going to keep me from graduating next year!!! ;)
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
hopeful
reflective
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This reminded me of the amazing FRAGILE SPECIES -- I love scientists who are compelling, language-agile, AND provocative. I love so much about Barbara Kingsolver. She is so adroit as a writer. Is there nothing she can't do?
More wonderful Barbara... This collection is nice in that it covers so many corners of her thoughts that by the time you finish you feel like you've really just had a pretty thorough trip through all that is important. I'm glad that "Lily's Chickens" is here so that people who haven't read Animal, Vegetable, Mineral are able to get a sample.
So very full of hope -- a book focused on the ills of the world, but with one of the more uplifting approaches to those ills. A really lovely book.
I love her so, so much. Not only for her perfect sentences, but for her passion, love for the world, and unwavering message.
This was pulled together and mostly written just after 9/11 but literally nothing about it could not have been written today--only things are WORSE now.
This was pulled together and mostly written just after 9/11 but literally nothing about it could not have been written today--only things are WORSE now.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced