13-01-2023, 02:02 PM
(07-01-2023, 07:48 PM)Olive Wrote:(07-01-2023, 06:18 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: Currently reading Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead, really enjoying it but difficult reading in places. A re-imagining of David Copperfield set in one of the poorest parts of America.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/n...ns-updated
Isn't it great! It took me a few chapters to get into the dialect, then I was riveted through to the end.
Its brilliant -I'm close-ish to the end & find myself trying to ration reading it. Probably a lost cause though.
I'm having trouble trying to comprehend how anyone can deliberately target people they know are struggling, with the motive of making their situation considerably worse, knowing it will certainly mean deaths & doing it anyway, in order to make money.
I've read some of her earlier books & enjoyed them but it was a while ago.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)