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Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver
“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.”
I’m torn between giving this 3 or 4 stars because the first half was really slow and difficult for me, but having completed it, I think I would enjoy the first half more had I had any inkling of how it was all going to come together. This book is a love letter to nature and the food chain.
The first chapter is the horniest description of nature I’ve ever read in my life and that theme of life, reproduction and sex being part of nature kept recurring. Sometimes in oddly surprising ways and sometimes in ways that made more sense than anything you’ve ever read before. If you’re a nature lover and interested in the ecosystem, you may really appreciate this book. I’m fairly ignorant and I appreciated it a lot.
I’m torn between giving this 3 or 4 stars because the first half was really slow and difficult for me, but having completed it, I think I would enjoy the first half more had I had any inkling of how it was all going to come together. This book is a love letter to nature and the food chain.
The first chapter is the horniest description of nature I’ve ever read in my life and that theme of life, reproduction and sex being part of nature kept recurring. Sometimes in oddly surprising ways and sometimes in ways that made more sense than anything you’ve ever read before. If you’re a nature lover and interested in the ecosystem, you may really appreciate this book. I’m fairly ignorant and I appreciated it a lot.