I will be doing kind of a major spoiler lower down in the page, and I will mark the break when I move to that. So the term that I googled is “anvilicious” because a review from Goodreads on this book mentioned this as a problem for the book. This basically mean the “message” of the book is hammered home too too neatly, directly, or succinctly. This is a kind of minor problem for this book. The book is sentimental and heartfelt, a little clunkily, […]
“Stop the logging, stop the lies. Save the monarch butterflies.”
For years (and years) my favorite Barbara Kingsolver book was The Poisonwood Bible, followed by Prodigal Summer. And then I read Flight Behavior and I believe that I have a new favorite. I have enjoyed everything I’ve ever read by Kingsolver, but there is a timeliness to Flight Behavior that makes it extra special. The story features Dellarobia Turnbow, a slight-statured, red-haired farmwife in rural, western Tennessee. Dellarobia has no family outside the family she’s made with her gentle giant of a husband, Cub, and […]