Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (BOOK REVIEW)

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

What a thought provoking book! Let me know what your thoughts are if you've read this book? What life lessons did you glean from it? Any other books by this author that I should read next?

[@reaganwiles_art]

what a book, huh? I haven't read this, but now I wanna

[@DefaultName-nt7tk]

Great review as always. Thanks 😊. Have you read any of her other books? Flight, Book of Jacob... I might not have the exact titles.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

No I haven’t read any of her other work. I didn’t know who she was until I looked her up.

[@reaganwiles_art]

you are an awesome human being

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Thank you, that’s very nice of you to say this. Much appreciated. 😊

[@reaganwiles_art]

we are nevertheless living in that space now; I'll tout Riddley Walker again. Not that it answers questions but it lives with realities.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

I had to look up this book as I’ve not heard about it. It got a science fiction prize in Australia too! (Now I’ll have to see if it’s at our library) 🤔

[@techidna-h9t]

It's a beautiful book and I also enjoyed the film version very much. Also, I found reference to this text being used in a Monash uni course about Crime narratives. I was expecting it to be part of an ecofiction course.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

Ah!!!! Okay then. I wondered why it was in the Monash Uni bookstore along with some other crime books. Now that makes sense. Thank you!

[@caseynluke]

I was thinking about the question are writers fake? and was thinking about auto-fiction, where writers craft an internal narrative based upon their own lives and embellish it with fictional elements. An additional layer to these thoughts. Thanks for giving me something yet again to ponder. I've just discovered you and am loving your videos. I have purchased Steppenwolf from your previous recommendation so will add this to the list.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

@@caseynluke how wonderful. Thank you so much for this feedback, I really do appreciate it and I love how books make us think, giving prompts for our thinking which then helps us see links to other books and stories. It really does open up the book which in turn gives us an opportunity to see and hear and read other’s interpretations of it which I also find fascinating. Please let me know what you think of Steppenwolf. The first two thirds are interesting and then it takes some weird turn….

[@ariannefowler455]

I had very mixed feelings on this book. I was all in at the beginning but got lost along the way. By the end, I was annoyed and glad it was over. Ha! I would be interested to try something else by this author.

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

🤣 It gripped me enough to the end but i found the ending a tad flat as if I was let down by finding out who the murderer was maybe wishing it to be a little bit more woo woo. 🤔

[@e8fl3b]

if there's animal cruelty in this book I'm afraid I wont be able to read it

[@LifeLessonsFromBooks]

@@e8fl3b fair call. I understand that wholeheartedly. Best to steer away from this book. There are plenty of others to read. Happy reading!