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Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
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Okay so the summary of Demon Copperhead makes it very clear that reading David Copperfield is not a prerequisite for this book. I thought, sure, I’ve seen most of the movie, I get the gist. But this morning I was inspired to take a look at the plot summary from the David Copperfield Wikipedia page and oh my god??? Maybe it shouldn’t be a prerequisite because I had to stop reading the plot summary for fear that I would spoil Demon Copperhead. The names really get me. Barbara Kingsolver is so clever, I love her. So perhaps this is a psa to not read David Copperfield first? (This feels quite ironic after all my preaching about reading Huckleberry Finn before James so who’s to say)
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L'Empire qui ne veut pas mourir. Une histoire de la Françafrique
Thomas Borrel
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The book I just finished, Pope Joan, it was good, truly. A solid medievalism, well researched, well written, very engaging. But Barbara Kingsolver. . . God, you can feel the mastery just dripping off the page. There’s good writing and then there’s genius. I haven’t read anything by Kingsolver since The Poisonwood Bible almost a decade ago and I can’t believe how much I missed her. If you’re reading this post thinking about how you’ve been procrastinating on starting Demon Copperhead, this is your sign, start it.
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Pope Joan
Donna Woolfolk Cross