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.
#librarylove #audiobook #BarbaraKingsolver

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.

#books #barbarakingsolver

2025 TBR 💖
#barbarakingsolver
#zoranealehurston
#octaviabutler
#audrelorde
#raybradbury
#rainbow
#books
#tbr

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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#ReadIn2024 #2024Reads @bookstodon #bookstodon

"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/
#jdvance #barbarakingsolver #internationalen

Neue Bücher 2024: Die interessantesten Neuerscheinungen laut NDR https://www.lesering.de/id/4936134/Neue-Bucher-2024-Die-interessantesten-Neuerscheinungen-laut-NDR/ #Kollektivroman(OlgaGrjasnowa #FeministischePerspektiven #BernardineEvaristo #BarbaraKingsolver #HistorischeRomane #KatjaLange-Müller #ConstanzeNeumann #AbdulrazakGurnah #MichaelKöhlmeier #MarkusThielemann #JoachimMeyerhoff #MaggieO’Farrell #JochenSchimmang #UlrikeDraesner) #LauraSpence-Ash #FrankSchätzing #SamanthaHarvey #KimHo-Yeon

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/barbara-kingsolver-demon-copperhead-jd-vance-holding-the-line
#BarbaraKingsolver
#DemonCopperhead

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/barbara-kingsolver-demon-copperhead-jd-vance-holding-the-line

#BarbaraKingsolver #JDVance

Cheered up by lovely piece on/with the brilliant #BarbaraKingsolver - "...she began by studying classical piano on a music scholarship before – on the realisation that she didn’t want to spend her life “playing Blue Moon in a hotel lobby” – switching to biology..."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/barbara-kingsolver-demon-copperhead-jd-vance-holding-the-line?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

June 1983 - December 1984. the #union that represented the workers was decertified. capital teamed with government to crush labour … earlier in 1981 air traffic controller strike POTUS Reagan broke the strike overnight; fired 11,000 unionised controllers in a single morning and then banned them from working in the federal service ever again.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/barbara-kingsolver-demon-copperhead-jd-vance-holding-the-line

#BarbaraKingsolver #mineworkers #Arizona #strike #workingclasshistory
#labormovement #project2025 #Bookstodon

"How foolish ... to label anything 'of the century.' This one is still a teenager with an anger-management problem and a long future ahead."
--- Barbara Kingsolver, Unshelteted, 2018

#amreading #readingcommunity #BarbaraKingsolver

At the store and came across a pretty discounted hardcover copy of "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver. It is worth purchasing a physical copy? I usually try to stick to library books and purchase books I really like, but the library wait list is long and the price is tempting.

About to travel and was looking for something good to read.

#books #bookstodon #reading #readingcommunity #literature #barbarakingsolver #demoncopperhead @books @bookstodon

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿" 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 -

Kingsolver's collection--while over 20 years old now and occasionally quaint in its positions--still feels fresh, vital, and more and more necessary.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #barbarakingsolver #smallwonder #essays #ethics #grief #lessonsforliving

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"And this was the day she was teaching her #cubs how to roll up the #moss like a rug and find these big fat #beetles underneath. And when they paid attention, she was nice and when they would wander off, she would bat them with her paw. And because I think I was there with my cub, it was a moment where I had this understanding as a mother that #mothers everywhere, of all species, are doing the same things. We are in this together." https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/05/11/it-is-a-privilege-to-be-able-to-walk-outside-your-door-and-into-wild-land/
#BarbaraKingsolver #Kinderbuch #Natur

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿” 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 -

Kingsolver's post-9/11 essay collection on grief, love, environment, and mores feels at once insulated and imperative.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #3words #barbarakingsolver #smallwonder #essay #environment #peace

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Besuch von Dickens: »Demon Copperhead« von Barbara Kingsolver https://www.literaturcafe.de/besuch-von-dickens-demon-copperhead-von-barbara-kingsolver/ #BuchkritikenundTipps #BarbaraKingsolver #DavidCopperfield #DemonCopperhead #CharlesDickens #dtv

"One of the very first things I figured out about life is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun." — Barbara Kingsolver — — — #BarbaraKingsolver #quote #quotes #hope #hopeful #cynical #grumpy #outlook

Deserves a re-reading every once in a while. All still true. Barbara Kingsolver's speech at the 2008 Duke University commencement, which she concluded with her poem "Hope; An Owner's Manual." https://today.duke.edu/2008/05/kingsolver.html

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #BarbaraKingsolver #hope #climate #future #FutureWorld #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency