oo Posionwood Bible, you all must read that! amazing book! its my favorite and leah thats what hooked me too, i loved the "doomed pale blossoms" and just the description of it, the parting of the spider webs like "conducting a symphony" "as if these headlamps from another world could light the way"(and yes sadly this is all by memory!hehehe!) i read this book twice in a row, as soon as i was finished with it, i went to read object lessons then couldnt get into it then turned back around and read Poisonwood again!LOL!!read it twice in two weeks!i love that book!
i loved the symbolism and the characterization in it was just outstanding. but rachel got on my nerves towards the middle to the end, at first she was comical but then she just got annoying and her self-centerness(is that a word?!) came out even more! i wanted to punch her but in the beginning of the book i loved her parts "charmed im sure!"LOL!
i loved adah and leah the most! Ho! evols dog! forward to backward different is book a. i learned so much from adah i think, i have even caught myself reading books and other sentences like that and looking for palindromes, and i loved the symbolism of her limp" permanent singsong of left.....behind....left.....behind."
okay i'll stop here before i give too much away sorry guys! i should have said any of this but im just going to say this GO READ IT!
leah if you loved poisonwood Bible you will love The Little Friend, same characterization and the writing style is similar as well, i havent finished it so i cant compare the two wholly but i love it so far. and this month for our reading in english we get to pick a book and i wanted to do my project on Poisonwood bc its my fav book but she already knew that i had read it twice so she said no!!GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!LOL!
when you guys have finished PB, tell us so we can start the discussion of that!hehehe
has anyone read any other of Barbara Kingsolver's books: i have read The Bean Trees and want to read pigs in heaven!
and leah, dont worry about devil wears prada, one always needs the right amount of fluff! i read everything, fantasy, coming of age, epic, classic, fluff, dramas, and everything is good in some way! devil wears prada is just fun!! same as shopaholic, you cant go wrong with those books!
~another book that brings forth good discussion is A False Sense of Well-Being, i forget the author but i read it in the fall, and just thought about it after reading it because she goes through a mid-life crisis and it does make you think about things(and it has her saying a prayer for a stuffed duck which is hilarous!)
okay well i'll stop raving and ranting about books!hehehehe!
i broke it up for ya nance!HAHA! ^_^