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I like Barbara Kingsolver's writing, and so was pretty well disposed to like this book, which I did. I am not sure it is the best of her books, but I liked the story, and the characters. I also liked the idea of setting it in the hills of Appalachia, among people who are not well off, yet make do with the life situations they find themselves in.
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Set in Tennessee, this book is about a deviation in nature. The monarch butterflies which usually overwinter in Mexico have settled down on a mountain top in Tennessee. The biological descriptions in this book are easy enough for an amateur to understand, but are obviously accurate. I was brought back to my childhood when the author described how the butterflies gathered together like leaves on a tree, and even looked that way because of the brown undersides of their wings. I remember a friend's
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My local book club selected this book for our January 2014 discussion. We'd read a book by Barbara Kingsolver before, The Bean Trees, and I really looked forward to the discussion.
The story was engaging, although a bit frustrating at times. I liked the description of life in Appalachia, a place that is close geographically, but a world apart from us economically and culturally. I loved the discussion of the monarch butterflies and even read a children's book about the Monarch butterflies (coinc ...more
The story was engaging, although a bit frustrating at times. I liked the description of life in Appalachia, a place that is close geographically, but a world apart from us economically and culturally. I loved the discussion of the monarch butterflies and even read a children's book about the Monarch butterflies (coinc ...more
Very interesting. I was not happy with the ending and didn't understand where the author was going with it. Global warming is scary to think about!
One reader called it "redneck environmentalism". Too harsh. ...more
One reader called it "redneck environmentalism". Too harsh. ...more
Three stars out of five. I liked it and I thought it had an amazing message. But I didn't love it.
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