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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
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
This book is a gorgeous, poetic love letter to nature and the human experience. Through beautiful storytelling and different characters and perspectives, Kingsolver deals with important issues of love, agriculture, conservation and family. Loved this one, highly highly recommend!
emotional
informative
inspiring
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:
No
Really lovely writing. This book wove three perspectives: a young entomologist from the city who married out onto a family farm in the sticks who quickly becomes a widow and struggles to fit in to her new family and life, a middle aged woman who lives alone on the mountain above the sticks town working for the forest service to discourage poaching who has a whirlwind romance with a hunter, and an old man in sticks town trying to back cross a blight resistant American chestnut who gets in arguments about the use of pesticides with the old woman who lives on the farm next to him. All three stories end up having connections to each other, though they don’t interact much directly. The book is deeply concerned with ecosystems, human systems of connection, womanhood, motherhood, humans as animals, and the culture of the rural south. The characters were fantastic and fun to read. The only parts that lost me were that the book sometimes ends up in the “women are mystically connected to the moon and human decisions are largely driven by pheromones and sex” territory that I don’t personally agree with, but it did fit the themes of the novel and its interest in wildlife. Would reccomend! Great to read during the summer.
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was ok. I found parts of it preachy and excessively didactic. But Kingsolver does have a way with words. And I mostly agree with her sermon.
Lord please provide me an Eddie Bondo to ruin my life
+ I'm about to read all of Barbara's books religiously
+ I'm about to read all of Barbara's books religiously