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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Like a love story to ecology! Beautiful, maybe a tad self-satisfied, but really very enjoyable. And Barbara Kingsolver's narration (I listened to the audiobook) was spot-on too.
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book as much as Prodigal Summer. It's not perfect: there's a 50-page rant about organic farming disguised as dialogue near the end of the book, but I'm willing to forgive it because the stories (there are three here, intertwined) are perfectly plotted and beautifully told.
I originally checked it out from the library, but 30 pages in, I beat a hasty trail to the bookstore to buy it, such was my desire to take notes in the margins.
I originally checked it out from the library, but 30 pages in, I beat a hasty trail to the bookstore to buy it, such was my desire to take notes in the margins.
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Probably my favorite book
I heart this book. A lot. I'm not a big book re-reader, but this book is just... luscious.
A comfortable entry in Kingsolver's praise to nature's cycles and how people heed those cycles, sometimes against their will. Some great deviation here, though, including the most strangely lyrical sex dream ever and the aching hole left in the landscape by loved ones who have passed on.
Just love Barbara Kingsolver! This is a beautiful story (or 3 interwoven stories) and makes you want to go out and just stare up into the trees or at the plants underfoot.
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.”
“Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.”
actually was really enjoying these narratives and how they were soon going to weave together and then it just ended? without a conclusion? confused
This ended better than it started. I never really felt a pull from this book and it was much too preachy in some parts (especially for those of us who pay attention to the organic and local food movement). I think I like Kingsolver better as memoirist than a novelist. This was a million times better than poisonwood bible.