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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
A lot of dense (but beautiful) exposition in the first third and last bit of the book. Persisting definitely worthwhile.
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
“One has only a life of one’s own.”
“Refusing to be any place at all, or any thing but itself: the animal kingdom making hay in the kingdom of glory."
“We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.”
“I could see that the whole idea and business of Childhood was nothing guaranteed. It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a drill on a dress.”
“Father specializes in the upper hand.”
“In darkness when all cats are equally black”
“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”
“how can there be so many kinds of things a person doesn’t really need?”
“where poverty comes from, and where it goes”
“She’s a smart little girl, though this guarantees nothing, of course.”
“The Congolese are skilled at survival and perceptive beyond belief, else dead at an early age. Those are the choices.”
“They know just one thing about foreigners, and that is everything we’ve ever done to them.”
“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering.”
“They declined to invent the wheel because it looked like nothing but trouble in this mud.”
“A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.”
“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”
“Refusing to be any place at all, or any thing but itself: the animal kingdom making hay in the kingdom of glory."
“We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.”
“I could see that the whole idea and business of Childhood was nothing guaranteed. It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a drill on a dress.”
“Father specializes in the upper hand.”
“In darkness when all cats are equally black”
“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”
“how can there be so many kinds of things a person doesn’t really need?”
“where poverty comes from, and where it goes”
“She’s a smart little girl, though this guarantees nothing, of course.”
“The Congolese are skilled at survival and perceptive beyond belief, else dead at an early age. Those are the choices.”
“They know just one thing about foreigners, and that is everything we’ve ever done to them.”
“The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering.”
“They declined to invent the wheel because it looked like nothing but trouble in this mud.”
“A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.”
“Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.”
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
tense
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The epitome of an Oprah’s Book Club pick (derogatory).
Mostly solid, especially as a feat of storytelling. Some of the writing is bogged down by cliché, and only one of the five narrative voices (Adah) felt compelling and truly unique.
The last 150 pages are a mess. Kingsolver does not handle leaps forward in time with the deftness that she exhibits in the first 400 pages. The narrative goes limp. Much that is obvious is overly explained, and the whole mess circles the drain for a painfully long time.
Mostly solid, especially as a feat of storytelling. Some of the writing is bogged down by cliché, and only one of the five narrative voices (Adah) felt compelling and truly unique.
The last 150 pages are a mess. Kingsolver does not handle leaps forward in time with the deftness that she exhibits in the first 400 pages. The narrative goes limp. Much that is obvious is overly explained, and the whole mess circles the drain for a painfully long time.
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes