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I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
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I just splurged on a pile of books from my favorite independent bookstore, Bookshop Santa Cruz!
I've been feeling the urge to actually READ the books I just skimmed in school as a teenager. Like, maybe one reason I feel so disconnected from others is the fact that I never actually read anything that I was supposed to read.
Plus a few for just the sheer fun of it . . .
#Books
#BookshopSantaCruz
#StephenKing
#MarkTwain
#CliffordHenderson
#BarbaraKingsolver
#RobertLouisStevenson
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Aluksi mietin että jaksanko tämmöisen kirjajärkäleen lukea, mutta hiljalleen tarina sieppasi mukaansa eikä enää irti päästänyt.
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Aluksi mietin että jaksanko tämmöisen kirjajärkäleen lukea, mutta hiljalleen tarina sieppasi mukaansa eikä enää irti päästänyt.
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#Quotes #Reading #Fiction #Empathy #BarbaraKingsolver
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. -Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955) -
#Quotes #Reading #Fiction #Empathy #BarbaraKingsolver
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. -Barbara Kingsolver, novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 8 Apr 1955) -
It’s Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, and we’re celebrating two amazing novelists today – #BarbaraKingsolver and #SaraShepard. 🎉
Today's new book highlights ✨
Vision & Venture by #JeremyFabiano
( #TheGlyphwrightChronicles Series)
A Hunger in Every Heart by #KateKing
( #EnchantedLegacies Series)
Close Call by #IsabellaBassett
( #GoldenAgeTelephoneGossipsMystery Series)Read more at our link in the comments.
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It’s Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, and we’re celebrating two amazing novelists today – #BarbaraKingsolver and #SaraShepard. 🎉
Today's new book highlights ✨
Vision & Venture by #JeremyFabiano
( #TheGlyphwrightChronicles Series)
A Hunger in Every Heart by #KateKing
( #EnchantedLegacies Series)
Close Call by #IsabellaBassett
( #GoldenAgeTelephoneGossipsMystery Series)Read more at our link in the comments.
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"I tend to wake up extremely early with words flooding into my brain. If I don’t get up, they’ll continue to accumulate in puddles, so it’s a relief to get to the keyboard and dump them out."
~ Barbara Kingsolver, born today, 1955.
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"I tend to wake up extremely early with words flooding into my brain. If I don’t get up, they’ll continue to accumulate in puddles, so it’s a relief to get to the keyboard and dump them out."
~ Barbara Kingsolver, born today, 1955.
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A quotation from Barbara Kingsolver
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
Barbara Kingsolver (b. 1955) American novelist, essayist, poet
Essay (1995), “Civil Disobedience at Breakfast,” High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or NeverMore about this quote: wist.info/kingsolver-barbara/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barbarakingsolver #boundaries #children #control #parenting #power #rules
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She's back! Exciting news as #BarbaraKingsolver has announced her new novel. Release date: October 6, 2026.
Get notified of new books by Barbara: https://www.booknotification.com/authors/barbara-kingsolver/
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She's back! Exciting news as #BarbaraKingsolver has announced her new novel. Release date: October 6, 2026.
Get notified of new books by Barbara: https://www.booknotification.com/authors/barbara-kingsolver/
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Barbara Kingsolver Announces New Novel "Partita" Following "Demon Copperhead" Success
Barbara Kingsolver, author of 'Demon Copperhead,' will release a new novel 'Partita' on Feb 14, 2025, exploring classical music.
#BarbaraKingsolver, #PartitaNovel, #DemonCopperhead, #NewBookRelease, #ClassicalMusic
https://newsletter.tf/barbara-kingsolver-announces-new-novel-partita-after-demon-copperhead-success/
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Barbara Kingsolver's new novel 'Partita' is coming out on February 14, 2025. This is her first book since the award-winning 'Demon Copperhead'.
#BarbaraKingsolver, #PartitaNovel, #DemonCopperhead, #NewBookRelease, #ClassicalMusic
https://newsletter.tf/barbara-kingsolver-announces-new-novel-partita-after-demon-copperhead-success/
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So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."
Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.
#BarbaraKingsolver
#DemonCopperhead
#UPDA
#books
#amreading
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So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."
Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.
#BarbaraKingsolver
#DemonCopperhead
#UPDA
#books
#amreading
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I don't want to flood your inbox, but I did want to thank you again for the Barbara Kingsolver recommendation.
I have just finished "The Bean Trees", which made a delightfully refreshing contrast to the last novel by a US author I read, Elmore Leonard's "Out of Sight"; see my comments on Leonard here: https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115323499218156545
Even though "The Bean Trees" was published 37 years ago in 1988 -- the year that Trump really started Trumping -- I was pleasantly reminded as I read it of how the USA is so much more than the simplistic caricature of a country presented by MAGA. The book conveys a vivid sense of various US places - Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona -- and the diversity of these places' inhabitants. I also found it refreshing to read a novel steeped in progressive values that was without a trace of the graduate seminar room or East/West coast hipsterism. I liked the way that Kingsolver incorporated surprises in the narrative and humour too; I laughed out loud at times. All in all, an enjoyable but also thought provoking read.
I think I'm going to put "The Poisonwood Bible" on my TBR list.
Thanks again - should I be thanking Dawn too?
#BarbaraKingsolver #Books #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #TheBeanTrees #Fiction #Novels #LiteratureInEnglish
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I don't want to flood your inbox, but I did want to thank you again for the Barbara Kingsolver recommendation.
I have just finished "The Bean Trees", which made a delightfully refreshing contrast to the last novel by a US author I read, Elmore Leonard's "Out of Sight"; see my comments on Leonard here: https://c.im/@jemmesedi/115323499218156545
Even though "The Bean Trees" was published 37 years ago in 1988 -- the year that Trump really started Trumping -- I was pleasantly reminded as I read it of how the USA is so much more than the simplistic caricature of a country presented by MAGA. The book conveys a vivid sense of various US places - Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona -- and the diversity of these places' inhabitants. I also found it refreshing to read a novel steeped in progressive values that was without a trace of the graduate seminar room or East/West coast hipsterism. I liked the way that Kingsolver incorporated surprises in the narrative and humour too; I laughed out loud at times. All in all, an enjoyable but also thought provoking read.
I think I'm going to put "The Poisonwood Bible" on my TBR list.
Thanks again - should I be thanking Dawn too?
#BarbaraKingsolver #Books #USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #TheBeanTrees #Fiction #Novels #LiteratureInEnglish
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Picking my next read. What will it be? Sometimes I read the first few pages and see what grabs me.
#sarahkendzior
#KathleenHanna
#Scalzi
#BarbaraKingsolver
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Picking my next read. What will it be? Sometimes I read the first few pages and see what grabs me.
#sarahkendzior
#KathleenHanna
#Scalzi
#BarbaraKingsolver
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/16/look-up-five-hopeful-novels-about-the-climate-crisis #Scienceandnaturebooks #BarbaraKingsolver #Climatecrisis #RichardPowers #Environment #AmitavGhosh #Culture #Books
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/31/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-july #BarbaraKingsolver #Crimefiction #IrvineWelsh #OceanVuong #Culture #Fiction #Poetry #Books
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/31/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-july #BarbaraKingsolver #Crimefiction #IrvineWelsh #OceanVuong #Culture #Fiction #Poetry #Books
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Voice Matters, Part 2
If writing voice is part word choice, part genre-driven, and part worldview, it would seem safe to deduce that one’s writing voice is as individual as their thumbprint. And yet it has constantly amazed me, in all my years as a developmental editor, that there is often a huge gap between the email voices of my clients and…
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/07/10/voice-matters-part-2/#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AuthorialVoice #BarbaraKingsolver
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Voice Matters, Part 2
If writing voice is part word choice, part genre-driven, and part worldview, it would seem safe to deduce that one’s writing voice is as individual as their thumbprint. And yet it has constantly amazed me, in all my years as a developmental editor, that there is often a huge gap between the email voices of my clients and…
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/07/10/voice-matters-part-2/#BookTalk #CRAFT #Inspirations #AuthorialVoice #BarbaraKingsolver
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‘The damage is terrifying’: #BarbaraKingsolver on Trump, #ruralAmerica and the #recoveryhome funded by her hit #novel
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‘The damage is terrifying’: #BarbaraKingsolver on Trump, #ruralAmerica and the #recoveryhome funded by her hit #novel
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‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/05/the-damage-is-terrifying-barbara-kingsolver-on-trump-rural-america-and-the-recovery-home-funded-by-her-hit-novel #Women'sprizeforfiction #BarbaraKingsolver #Pulitzerprize #Fiction #Culture #Books
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‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/05/the-damage-is-terrifying-barbara-kingsolver-on-trump-rural-america-and-the-recovery-home-funded-by-her-hit-novel #Women'sprizeforfiction #BarbaraKingsolver #Pulitzerprize #Fiction #Culture #Books
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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
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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
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"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/
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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 -
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.
#BarbaraKingsolver #mineworkers #Arizona #strike #workingclasshistory
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"How foolish ... to label anything 'of the century.' This one is still a teenager with an anger-management problem and a long future ahead."
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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#bookstodon #vendredilecture #books #mastolivre #livre "Demon Copperhead" de Barbara Kingsolver. Sort en français le 1er février sous le titre "On m'appelle Demon Copperhead".
Un #PrixPulitzer mérité pour ce roman majestueux qui suit la vie d'un enfant pauvre dans un milieu rural aux Etats-Unis, jusqu'à la fin de l'adolescence et la crise des opioïdes. Un roman qui marque par son empathie, son humanité et son style – la voix du héros qui change au fil du temps #barbaraKingsolver #pulitzer -
#bookstodon #vendredilecture #books #mastolivre #livre "Demon Copperhead" de Barbara Kingsolver. Sort en français le 1er février sous le titre "On m'appelle Demon Copperhead".
Un #PrixPulitzer mérité pour ce roman majestueux qui suit la vie d'un enfant pauvre dans un milieu rural aux Etats-Unis, jusqu'à la fin de l'adolescence et la crise des opioïdes. Un roman qui marque par son empathie, son humanité et son style – la voix du héros qui change au fil du temps #barbaraKingsolver #pulitzer -
I've been reading Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. What a great book! Here is why I thought that:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/bef8f88c-02c9-45c1-b8fd-3f7368d1a546/#review #books #BarbaraKingsolver #bookstodon #USA #cology #MonarchButterfly #Butterfly
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https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/09/07/why-oliver-anthony-went-viral/
I decided to take a deeper dive into Oliver Anthony and look at him as a musician. My honest take: there is a cultural miscommunication going on and I think it needs to be addressed. Also I like the guy.
#Culture, #BarbaraKingsolver, #Country, #Internet, #music, #OliverAnthony, #politics, #RichMenNorthofRichmond
