An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver

[@WendyJoseph-ww8ws]

Just finished reading Demon Copperhead this afternoon. Had me in tears. Have read and own all of her novels, but at 72 and having CPTSD from my own years as a State Ward, this one has both triggered and filled me entirely. Wonderful... Thank you so much Ms Kingsolver. You rock!❤

[@august53ify]

I read the Demon Copperhead b📚 sometime ago. Listening to Barbara, talking about the book through main character Demon is great!!

[@karlataylor1172]

Can't wait........

[@peergroves]

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[@jimmyhand1259]

I admire anyone who can write a story much less get it published and I have great respect for the art of writing. Barbara's a great agenda writer like Jodi Picoult. I should first assure other commenters that I don't mind at all the cussing, the reality of how people talk, how things are, including the rough talk or the ugly truth. People do experience horrors and it is honest to tell their story. But she admittedly seems to go in the direction of overblown which is her right. As in the extreme use of the fbomb.. I just get too much of a sense of Barbara Kingsolver in what I have read of her work but not in the sense that she became Damon or another characters experiences, in her work. I would prefer her to let the characters be themselves, let them tell their story instead of writing as the observing angry social worker, over their shoulder, putting in her 2 cents while telling the story. I admire her concerns about addiction and have experienced living way too close to it first hand and recognize the need of awareness. If she'd get out of her own way I might enjoy and feel inspired by her work more. What she read is not in anyway comparable to Dickens, in my opinion. I felt similarly disappointed by The Poisonwood Bible. She was inserting herself and her agenda into the story. I may read this entire book if someone passes to me. I have 400 tbr books in my possession. I truly seem to prefer earlier authors though of course, some more modern writers get it like Ruta Sepetys, Jan Karon, Diana Gabaldon, Ken Follett, John Ehle, Janice Holt Giles and many more.

[@WendyJoseph-ww8ws]

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