okay, i found the PW thread and now all of you who i encouraged to read this book have a place to discuss! so im going to start the discussion of it, because this is my favorite book, i loved it and i loved it enough to read it twice in two weeks!LOL!
i loved almost everything about the book except Rachel towards the end, she got too snobby and conceited but at the beginning i thought she was a riot!(charmed im sure?!lmao!)
i loved reading adah and leah's accounts the best, i now catch myself reading words differently, seperating them into different words and not even realizing it and love palindromes now!(Evol's Dog, Ho!) and how Kingsolver wrote her permnant singsong of walking left......behind.....left .....behind and how that carried throughout the story!
and i loved the overall themes as well, what is right somewhere is wrong somewhere else.
Kingsolver's description of everything was amazing as well, "parting the curtians of spiderwebs as conducting a symphony" "pale doomed blossoms" everything was so well written,and the plotlines were just heart-wrenching.
i loved how she chose to have Orleanna talk from the standpoint of not being in Africa looking back on it and talking to Ruth May, and especially when the last section of the book was Ruth May.
another part of this book that i admired was the relationship between anatole and leah."not you beene" and my favorite parts of the book are with anatole(when he is invited for dinner in the beginning when father price has that outburst, when he is telling leah about the Congo when no one had come to disturb her, and my other favorite which does not have him in it, was Ruth May's "funeral" when it started to rain and all the children came out saying "madah my i"
i really liked the characterization of the characters, especially Ruth May, whom she wrote like a child. i felt like i actually was ruth may.
and now i will stop here because we all know that i can go forever on this book, so i speak that later!
discuss!