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I read this for the #ReadingWomenChallenge prompt for a book set in Appalachia. Prodigal Summer takes place over the course of a summer as three narrators face changes in their lives. Deanna lives alone in the woods and relates more to nature than people. Lusa is navigating a new marriage and family in the country. Garnett is a widowed old coot who dislikes his organic grower neighbor. Nature in Appalachia is another character in the book.

It‘s been years since I read this, but I believe she was living in a #cabin. #letstravelaugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Serious book hangover from this one. Honestly, a wonderful book, characters that live with you and three interwoven stories that are beautifully written. Loved it.

Currently reading. What wonderful descriptive language!

Finished this last night! Loved loved the storylines with Lisa, Garnett and Nannie. Didn't care so much for Deanna's.

These end papers! 😍

It's like walking through water colors.

Got out early for a good long walk this morning - it was overcast and the heat hadn't come in yet. Prodigal Summer is a great book to walk through nature eh? ☺️☺️

On offer in the UK today for Kindle... I enjoyed the other two Kingsolver books that I‘ve read so why not...?!

People in Appalachia insisted that the mountains breathed, and it was true: the steep hollow behind the farmhouse took up one long, slow inhalation every morning and let it back down through their open windows and across the fields throughout evening—just one full, deep breath each day.
#appalachianread #prodigalsummer #hicklit #southernlit

I‘m only two books in to Barbara Kingsolver‘s genius and she‘s already one of my favourite authors. Southwestern Ontario weather is basically a month behind this year so I picked a good time to read this one. #summerreads

I‘ve discovered a love of nature writing, esp. when it‘s poetic. Three stories intertwine here, but my favorite character was Deanna, a biologist living alone in the woods. Her job is to observe local wildlife and protect it from poachers. Lusa comes to live on her husband‘s family farm, only to discover that she is an unwelcome stranger. Cranky old Garrett can‘t let go of a feud w/ a neighbor.

All 3 come together in a lovely, satisfying way.

Just ran across my old book club journals and found the questions I wrote for two different clubs' discussions of Prodigal Summer, years apart. 💚

#Butterflies on #endpapers and in this disturbing, yet beautiful, story from a favorite author. Pic is from our visit to Barbara Kingsolver's Harvest Table Restaurant & gift shop in Meadowview, Virginia. #LiteraryLuck @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88 Scolled through and found @Kalalalatja and @emtobiasz have posted these endpapers too.

It‘s a loooong time since I read this, but I remember enjoying it. And more than one #coyote was involved!
#timbittunes

This book was beautifully written and had a lush, rich, sinuous storyline that wrapped its way around you while listening to it. The author narrates it herself and she did such an amazing job, I want to listen to every other book of hers immediately. This book was sexy, in a natural, woodsy way. It made me fall in love with coyotes and grieve for baby birds and the chestnut tree. Lusa was by far my favorite character but I ended up loving them all

This book is about the wisdom of women and nature, and women in nature. It's quiet and gorgeous. The guys don't come off too well but the women aren't viewed as angels either, just wiser - much wiser.
To me, it is evident that Kingsolver knows, loves and writes women well, I'd even go as far as calling this a feminist novel.

Cats - always up in your business.

I was excited to read this today. I love our indie bookstore Malaprops.

I have been in a reading slump (as well as life slump, if that‘s a thing) for several weeks. I picked this book up on a whim for 50 cents and so far it‘s exactly right 👌 Hectic morning with the kids, but taking a quick break for myself. (Shhh, they haven‘t found me yet!)

I absolutely loved this book set in and around the Appalachian #mountains. My first Kingsolver, and I could get enough of the beautiful prose, setting, and characters.

I highly recommend the audio, read by the author and with a soundtrack of forest sounds between chapters. ❤️

#AugustIsATrip

A beautiful and luscious summer read about life, family and nature in Appalachia. Can‘t wait to read more of her writing.

Up next!!! So much #LitsyLove hope I‘m not disappointed 🤞🏼🤞🏼also hoping to get a pedi today #SelfCareSunday 🧡

Kingsolver is a goddess 😍 Perfect read for anyone into nature. 🦋🐝🦊🦃🌲🌳🍄She narrates this Audible and has a lovely Southern accent reminiscent of my years in Virginia. Flight Behavior is up next. 5⭐️s

Kingsolver interweaves three tales of Deanna, Lusa, and Garnett as they navigate love and life in their own unique ways. I reread this for my book club (you can see the notes poking out on the side) but it had been so long I didn't remember a thing about it. Weaving in lots of details about the natural world, the intertwined stories about complex characters who grow a lot in this one summer was an excellent read and provoked a lively discussion.

My wife & I have very different tastes so we don‘t often recommend books to each other, & when we do those recommendations usually fall on deaf ears. She recently told me this was her favorite ever, that she‘d read it several times. OMG it‘s a tour de force. A quiet, beautiful story about people trying to make their way in the world, both social & natural. People wanting to connect but still hold onto themselves. Pitch perfect. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I read some excellent books for the second season of #Booked2018 😃

Not one in this bunch that I didn‘t enjoy, but three of these were 5-star reads for me: Prodigal Summer, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Tatiana and Alexander.

Barbara Kingsolver is one of my #favouriteauthors and this seemed an appropriate time and place to release this #BookCrossing registered book.

I loved everything about this audiobook. The characters are fleshed out, flawed but admirable, and seem very authentic. There isn‘t a lot of action, but the interweaving stories are compelling and I wanted to listen all the time. There is an underlying message about the environment and our natural world, but it did not feel preachy. The writing is superb: rich and beautifully detailed, reading it seemed to involve all of my senses.

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I hauled myself out of bed early today to take my #audiowalk before work and predicted rain... how fitting to be out walking so early with the baby bunnies hopping across the trail and birds singing while listening to Kingsolver read about birds and insects and trees and coyotes. I walked with only one earbud in so I didn‘t miss anything. 😃

So, I started this audiobook this morning, and was immediately drawn in. Such gorgeous writing, and the imagery is so strong it‘s almost making me feel, taste, and smell the book. Wow!

So glad I bumped this up to the top of my #TBR pile. I read The Poisonwood Bible years ago and found it an unexpected joy. In Prodigal Summer life, love, death, family and nature are all covered in beautiful prose.

#QuotsyJune18 #Obscene
Poor old Mr Walker being distracted by Nannie Rawley‘s wantonness. 😂🤣

#Juneinbooks18 #Iamcurrentlyreading
#HeyJune #cometogether

In my #currentread Deanna and Eddie certainly #cometogether in quite the romantic tryst 🙈😘.
When I recently tried to jog a friend‘s memory about this book, she eventually remembered and said,
“Oh you mean the sex-in-the-mountains book!?” 🙀😍🗻

My parents are only children. They in turn produced 5 kids. They have been perplexed by the bickering between my siblings and I over the years, wondering why we aren‘t just so terribly grateful to have one another. #perspective #siblings #familylife

I‘ve been off the Litsy radar for the past week; life getting in the way 😏. So I‘m just getting started on June challenges.

I‘m #currentlyreading this summery novel. While those of you in the northern hemisphere are enjoying the thaw, here in Australia it‘s the start of winter 🌨💨. Hence this pic of my book with a bowl of pumpkin soup & a toasted parmesan bagel 😋.

#Juneinbooks18 #bookswithsummervibes
#Juneitselectrifying #summerdays

😧🌝 The facts you learn from fiction 🤔.

What a book! I went into this thinking it would be a #bookaboutnature, but it turned out to be so much more. It is a homage to nature, but it is also a story about human nature, about being stuck and how to move on. Kingsolver writes beautifully and poetically, which left me kind of awe struck. Little and big incidents set the story in motion and it all ties together beautifully in the end 👌

#Booked2018 #RecommendationsChallenge2018

Friday-feeling on a Wednesday ? I‘m trying to make my mom‘s house into a #funhouse filled with all the things I like: candy, rosé and books ??

#GetMovin

I‘m going to my mom‘s for a week to dogsit, and here is the stack of books I‘m taking with me. With the lovely weather we are having at the moment and this stack waiting to be read, I predict I‘ll struggle with motivating myself to write my thesis. But, what you gotta do, readers gonna read 🤷‍♀️😄

Spending some time outdoors with this book #setinnature for #booked2018 🌞 I‘m loving the Danish weather at the moment! 👌

#currentlyreading

Was able to squeeze in 4 novels (plus some poetry and art magazines here and there) and start a 5th between work, school and a couple vacations in April. Tagged my favorite book of the month. Looking forward to May‘s challenges 📚🐛🤗

#readingresolutions #photochallenge

One of my favorites of all time

☀️ Summer
📚 Both but mostly Fiction
🤓 Not in a book club
📖 Both but prefer print book

@SilversReviews

Only complaint about this novel is that it ended. Will be thinking about these lovable and inspiring characters for a long time and all that may have happened afterward. Beautiful use of nature, and again Barbara stresses the significance of flora and fauna without preaching. Wish it was at least twice as long. Highly recommend. Not a wasted word in this captivating read.

Really enjoyed Kingsolver‘s The Poisonwood Bible and look forward to picking this up next! Day 4: Wilderness #ReadingResolutions @Jess7 #photchallenge

Happy Easter 🐇🌷🥂 Chapter 10 #mothlove

Our last day in Iceland has been spent on driving around soaking up the countryside and lounging in a hot spring. On the way home we found a small, used book shop/cafe, where I found the two books above that I‘m reading for my #RecommendationsChallenge2018 📚

#Iceland #Bookhaul

Loved this book!

#IAmSweetMarch #ASeasonInTheTitle

“Luna was alone, curled in an armchair and reading furtively—the only way a farmer‘s wife may read, it turns out.”
This is my shelf of writing royalty that I keep by my chair because I know I can grab any one of these books, flip it open, and be inspired. I have studied this opening scene a dozen times: the character is SITTING IN A DAMN CHAIR for 16pp and I‘m transported.
#madskillz #royalty #riotgrams #day5