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.Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

April 29, 2008
Interesting book. It inspired me to spend more time working on my own (small) garden. I learned new things about lactose intolerance and cheese making, and I'll probably try my hand at making cheese sometime soon. I also learned a bit about slaughtering fowl, which I haven't had the opportunity to do.

However, I found the main premises of the book annoying. The author wants all our food to be generated locally, by independent small farms. She opposes the long distance transportation of food, primarily due to the general wastefulness and energy/pollution expense of the process. She opposes corporate farms because they are involved in questionable GMO practices, pollute, and are leading toward reduction of species diversification. ... Read More:
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.The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)

by: Barbara Kingsolver

May 31, 2005
This powerful novel by Barbara Kingsolver charts the lives of a missionary family and portrays the interplay of good intentions and motives warped by dogma. One ends up with an aching wonder ... what was changed, by whom and who or what prevailed!
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.The Bean Trees: A Novel

by: Barbara Kingsolver

September 09, 1998
Barbara Kingsolver is a favorite author with an easy style addressing many social and political issues with a light but serious touch. This book is no exception with a poignant story of an young woman of the earth seeking to make a life of her own remaining true to her roots and beliefs.
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.Prodigal Summer: A Novel

by: Barbara Kingsolver

October 16, 2001
I picked this book up at a Starbucks trading table not expecting much.

From beginning to end I thoroughly enjoyed it. I really liked the alternating chapters covering different people who were all interesting and so well developed by the author character-wise. I loved them all and especially how the author cleverly intertwined their lives at the end.

This is a book I will read again.
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.Animal Dreams

by: Barbara Kingsolver

June 21, 1991
When Codi Noline has to return to her hometown, to care for her father, it becomes an unexpected time of awakening. A number of subplots are beautiful thread throughout the story, including rekindled love, politics, the rich cultural history of the southwest, and how one might discover oneself in the most unexpected times and places. Kingsolver's ability to capture the essence of a land and its people continues to amaze me. I would rate it right up there with The Poisonwood Bible. Another beautifully written book.
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.Pigs in Heaven

by: Barbara Kingsolver

March 18, 1994
In Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver breaks the norms of classical or even contemporary novels by creating a complex story with no real hero or true villain. The talk can be over main characters but not one single, major persona that is in the very limelight. The extensive use of symbolism in this novel turns human relationships into philosophical issues, issues that convert the physical, tangible into abstraction, issues that awake inquisitiveness and the critical sort of mind out of the active reader, compelling the latter to think of those relationships as culturally pertinent questions that are in urgent need of culturally satisfactory answers. Characters are ridden with symbolism. But these symbolic representations, served in a plate of a relatively ... Read More:
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.The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.)

by: Barbara Kingsolver

June 10, 2008
In Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver breaks the norms of classical or even contemporary novels by creating a complex story with no real hero or true villain. The talk can be over main characters but not one single, major persona that is in the very limelight. The extensive use of symbolism in this novel turns human relationships into philosophical issues, issues that convert the physical, tangible into abstraction, issues that awake inquisitiveness and the critical sort of mind out of the active reader, compelling the latter to think of those relationships as culturally pertinent questions that are in urgent need of culturally satisfactory answers. Characters are ridden with symbolism. But these symbolic representations, served in a plate of a relatively ... Read More:
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.Small Wonder: Essays

by: Barbara Kingsolver

April 15, 2003
I found Barbara Kingsolver's "A Small Wonder" inspirational. It's the first time I've finished a book and immediately turned it over and read it again! Ms. Kingsolver is a perceptive storyteller and the way she portrays everyday experiences sheds an illuminating perspective on a better way to experience life - from how we use resources, to how we raise our kids, to how we relate to others. It's a wonderful guidebook for those who are concerned about peace, family and the environment. Everyone should read it because we should all be concerned about these things!
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.High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

by: Barbara Kingsolver

August 30, 1996
The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver inadvertently carried from the Bahamas to her home in Tucson in a collection of shells she had collected for her young daughter. As she explains, "If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can." "Buster's" behavior occasions wide ranging observations (the author's education was as a naturalist), including the desert tides, and becomes a metaphor for Kingsolver's own dislocation from a rural Kentucky childhood to the Sonoran desert. As an essayist, I am very taken with the author's easy flow from the general to the particular, from the wild world to that of culture, her take on what writing does ... Read More:
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.Animal Dreams

by: Barbara Kingsolver

1991
The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver inadvertently carried from the Bahamas to her home in Tucson in a collection of shells she had collected for her young daughter. As she explains, "If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can." "Buster's" behavior occasions wide ranging observations (the author's education was as a naturalist), including the desert tides, and becomes a metaphor for Kingsolver's own dislocation from a rural Kentucky childhood to the Sonoran desert. As an essayist, I am very taken with the author's easy flow from the general to the particular, from the wild world to that of culture, her take on what writing does ... Read More:
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