So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."
Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.
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#VendrediLecture Nouvelle traduction de ce célèbre roman de Barbara Kingsolver et l'occasion pour moi de le découvrir après m'être régalée de ses romans plus récents... Direction les années 60, le Congo belge en compagnie d'une famille de missionnaires américains...
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“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.” — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/quote-of-the-day-5342/
On Episode 4 of #ICareAboutBooks, we discuss #ThePoisonwoodBible by #BarbaraKingsolver 📖
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I don't want to flood your inbox, but I did want to thank you again for the Barbara Kingsolver recommendation.
I have just finished "The Bean Trees", which made a delightfully refreshing contrast to the last novel by a US author I read, Elmore Leonard's "Out of Sight"; see my comments on Leonard here: https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115323499218156545
Even though "The Bean Trees" was published 37 years ago in 1988 -- the year that Trump really started Trumping -- I was pleasantly reminded as I read it of how the USA is so much more than the simplistic caricature of a country presented by MAGA. The book conveys a vivid sense of various US places - Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona -- and the diversity of these places' inhabitants. I also found it refreshing to read a novel steeped in progressive values that was without a trace of the graduate seminar room or East/West coast hipsterism. I liked the way that Kingsolver incorporated surprises in the narrative and humour too; I laughed out loud at times. All in all, an enjoyable but also thought provoking read.
I think I'm going to put "The Poisonwood Bible" on my TBR list.
Thanks again - should I be thanking Dawn too?
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Picking my next read. What will it be? Sometimes I read the first few pages and see what grabs me.
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/31/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-july #BarbaraKingsolver #Crimefiction #IrvineWelsh #OceanVuong #Culture #Fiction #Poetry #Books
Voice Matters, Part 2
If writing voice is part word choice, part genre-driven, and part worldview, it would seem safe to deduce that one’s writing voice is as individual as their thumbprint. And yet it has constantly amazed me, in all my years as a developmental editor, that there is often a huge gap between the email voices of my clients and…
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/07/10/voice-matters-part-2/
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‘The damage is terrifying’: #BarbaraKingsolver on Trump, #ruralAmerica and the #recoveryhome funded by her hit #novel
Very interesting interview with #BarbaraKingsolver; who knew that the profits from #DemonCopperfield go to a recovery house in Appalachia? But her comment re: GOP in Congress ("...most of them come from wealth") - it's in the highest of American traditions; the vast majority of the signers of the US Constitution were wealthy men.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/05/the-damage-is-terrifying-barbara-kingsolver-on-trump-rural-america-and-the-recovery-home-funded-by-her-hit-novel
‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/05/the-damage-is-terrifying-barbara-kingsolver-on-trump-rural-america-and-the-recovery-home-funded-by-her-hit-novel #Women'sprizeforfiction #BarbaraKingsolver #Pulitzerprize #Fiction #Culture #Books
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/30/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-april-torrey-peters #BarbaraKingsolver #TimWinton #Culture #Fiction #Books
Really enjoyed this book. I'm glad I listened to the audiobook version, because the narrator (Charlie Thurston) was fantastic. I felt like I was listening to a real person tell their actual story.
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Alright, I just finished Barbara Kingsolver's DEMON COPPERHEAD. This is an absolutely stunning masterpiece, well deserving of its Pulitzer, that offers a searing and completely submerging portrait of what it is like to be poor and to be a drug addict. The novel is honest about these Appalachian lives without ever being mocking or condescending. It is DEEPLY observed. I'm now going to read all of Kingsolver's fiction now. She's terrific.
2025 TBR 💖
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Here's my 2024 book list:
Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - #DouglasAdams
Prodigal Summer - #BarbaraKingsolver
Kamchatka - Marcelo Figueras
The Known World - Edward Jones
Red Team Blues - @pluralistic
Slaughterhouse Five - #KurtVonnegut
Undermajordomo Minor - #PatrickDeWitt
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
LOTR trilogy - #Tolkien
The Enchantress of Florence - #SalmanRushdie
The Color of Magic - #TerryPratchett
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"JD Vance:s Hillbilly Elegy eller Barbara Kingsolvers Demon Copperhead? Två helt olika skildringar av fattigdomen och klassamhället.
Bodil Carlsson har läst bägge och kontaktade Barbara Kingsolver för att fråga om hennes bok möjligen hade kommit till som ett genmäle till Vances bestseller."
https://internationalen.se/den-akta-varan/
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