I just finished listening to Barbara Kingsolver read her novel Prodigal Summer. This is definitely a great way to read this book – to have the author read it to you. It took a while to get through it since I’m not driving much. While listening, I was totally drawn into the interweaving story lines and thought that it was a brilliant book. In between car trips, I often wondered what was going to happen to the characters.
It also did a great job of talking about humans and the land and animals interacting. Kingsolver had definitely done some research on animals. I was fascinated with some of the things that I learned about insects and coyotes.
Posted by Heather Voss at February 23, 2006 12:24 PMI've only read a few of hers but "Poinsonwood Bible" was and still is one of the most powerful books I've ever read. I actually purchased the book (usually I'm the queen of the library) but we were in a book club at the time, hence the buy. I made many angry notes (in red!) in the margins and underlined several passages.
Posted by: ellen at February 24, 2006 07:00 AMPB - on my shelf - the pile of things to read...
too many books, too little time...