Showing posts with label kingsolver. Show all posts
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Great Writer, Great Book

When I finished reading Barbara Kingsolver's, Animal Dreams last night, I turned to Cuppa and said something like, "Wow! What an amazing book!" Of course, I have said this before about Kingsolver; she tells a great story but she also writes it well. Her novels are multi-dinmensional with many layers or themes, particularly Animal Dreams, which includes the list below and probably others topics that I can't think of right now.
  • loss of family
  • teenage pregnancy
  • Alzheimers
  • community
  • ecology
  • foreign policy
  • native American culture

When I read Kingsolver, I learn, and, somehow, I come away feeling like I'm a better person.