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llovelymoonn · 10 months

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on july

allie ray holler \\ charlotte brontë jane eyre \\ charlotte eriksson \\ eileen miles hot night \\ barbara kingsolver barbara kingsolver \\ franz kafka diaries of franz kafka, 1914-1923: “july 16, 1912″ \\ gurpiar sidhu \\ czesław miłosz new and collected poems: 1931-2001: “a magic mountain” (tr. czesław miłosz) (via @soracities) \\ rick bass the wild marsh: four seasons at home in montana

buy my chai latte because i spent way too much money on them this week x

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pefkaes · 3 months

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03.02.2024 // learning to be alone with my thoughts.

progress through Demon Copperhead has been slow but so far, I've been enjoying it immensely (no surprises there because Kingsolver is a brilliant writer).

#studyblr #academia #barbara kingsolver #demon copperhead #studyblr community #studying #reading log #study blog #studyspo

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perfectfeelings · 13 days

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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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quotefeeling · 2 months

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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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lunchboxpoems · 16 days

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LOVE POEM, WITH BIRDS

They are your other flame. Your world

begins and ends with the dawn chorus,

a plaint of saw-whet owl, and in between,

the seven different neotropical warblers

you will see on your walk to the mailbox.

It takes a while. I know now not to worry.

Once I resented your wandering eye that

flew away mid-sentence, chasing any raft

of swallows. I knew, as we sat on the porch

unwinding the cares of our days, you were

listening to me through a fine mesh of oriole,

towhee, flycatcher. I said it was like kissing

through a screen door: You’re not all here.

But who could be more present than a man

with the patience of sycamores, showing me

the hummingbird’s nest you’ve spied so high

in a tree, my mortal eye can barely make out

the lichen-dabbed knot on an elbow of branch.

You will know the day her nestlings leave it.

The wonder is that such an eye, that lets not

even the smallest sparrow fall from notice,

beholds me also. That I might walk the currents

of our days with red and golden feathers

in my hair, my plain tongue laced with music.

That we, the birds and I, may be text and

illumination in your book of common prayer.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

#barbara kingsolver #poem #poetry #birds #bird poem #love poem #poetry month

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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nobeerreviews · 9 months

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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

-- Barbara Kingsolver

(Bistrița, Romania)

#memory #surprises #unnoticed #barbara kingsolver #travel photography #bistrita #romania #quote

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derangedrhythms · 10 months

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[…] the moon-dead dark.

Barbara Kingsolver, from 'Demon Copperhead'

#barbara kingsolver #demon copperhead #prose #fragments #darkness #moon

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quotemadness · 1 year

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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver

#Barbara Kingsolver #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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surqrised · 11 months

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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 6 months

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#the poisonwood bible #barbara kingsolver #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

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llovelymoonn · 7 months

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barbara kingsolver demon cooperhead

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#barbara kingsolver #demon copperhead #quotes #on life #on childhood

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pefkaes · 3 months

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15.02.2023 // Highly recommend Demon Copperhead, even though readers might find the writing tedious in places. I just want to hug all the characters, especially because I know people who struggle with addiction or fear falling off the edge (I am the latter). I also hope that I can become half the woman that June is.

Also learned quite a bit about Southern Appalachian history and society.

#studyblr #studyblr community #studying #barbara kingsolver #books #demon copperhead #study blog #reading #reading list #literature

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araekni · 4 months

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Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse

Lily Allen, Apples

Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club

Daniel M. Lavery and Cecilia Corrigan, Let Your Father Die Energy Drink [x]

Big Thief, Mythological Beauty

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962

Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

Nocturnal Animals (2016) dir. Tom Ford

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peanuts-n-jam-sandwich · 5 months

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I finished reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver the other day. This one is gonna sit with me for a while. I have a lot of thoughts about it. Personally I adored it and I feel it will live through the test of time. It manages to be modern but not annoyingly so and it's messages are sharp but not so much that it isolates the characters from the reader. Each and every character can be seen as a part of various metaphors but are still thought out and realistic characters. I found myself forgetting that Damon and Angus and Maggot are characters in a book. The ending left me confused in the best ways and the story in its entirety is so multifaceted that it feels like truth.

In my opinion, this book is a classic and we will all be better for it.

#demon copperhead #barbara kingsolver #books #appalachia

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thehopefulquotes · 1 year

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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna

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