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cassandra

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Hi Andrea, It's been a while since I read it, so I found these definitions - I like the juxtaposition of "wasteful" and "luxuriant" in the novel's context: 1 : characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : LAVISH 2 : recklessly spendthrift 3 : yielding abundantly : LUXURIANT -- often used with of

And also, this from the Kingsolver website: Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes a green and profligate countryside, these characters find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one part of life on earth. This is a novel which is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

I've been on a reading binge and recommend for good reads and/or diversions (if not soul changing or intellect challenging): Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document and Sigrid Nunez' The Last of Her Kind (both personal stories about the fallout affecting 60's radicals) , James and Kay Salter's Life Is Meals (for all you foodies), Alan Bennett's splendid memoirs Untold Stories, When Madeleine Was Young by Jane Hamilton and February House by Sherill Tippins (about the Brooklyn house shared by WH Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane & Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee - now there's a commune for you!)

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Hi Andrea, It's been a while since I read it, so I found these definitions - I like the juxtaposition of "wasteful" and "luxuriant" in the novel's context: 1 : characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : LAVISH 2 : recklessly spendthrift 3 : yielding abundantly : LUXURIANT -- often used with of

And also, this from the Kingsolver website: Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes a green and profligate countryside, these characters find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one part of life on earth. This is a novel which is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

I've been on a reading binge and recommend for good reads and/or diversions (if not soul changing or intellect challenging): Dana Spiotta's Eat the Document and Sigrid Nunez' The Last of Her Kind (both personal stories about the fallout affecting 60's radicals) , James and Kay Salter's Life Is Meals (for all you foodies), Alan Bennett's splendid memoirs Untold Stories, When Madeleine Was Young by Jane Hamilton and February House by Sherill Tippins (about the Brooklyn house shared by WH Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane & Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee - now there's a commune for you!)

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24 – blockdog on January 14th, 2007