I have a whole THING about Kingsolver. I really loved her early Arizona/NM books. It's gone downhill since then. I did not like Poisonwood Bible. I hated Animal Vegetable Mineral. Lacuna was annoying as shit. And the most recent was meh. Why do I keep reading her work? Because I loved Animal Dreams so much.
I love both the early books and, in a different way,
Poisonwood Bible,
which was the first book to really open up Africa to me. But the later ones have been really uneven. I liked
The Lacuna
OK, but
Flight Behavior
really grated on me, and I remember I didn't like
Prodigal Summer
all that much either. I will say, though, that
Flight Behavior
has really freaked me out but good about climate change, which is really what she's going for, I think, so... good for her?
SCOLA IN NOLA
So jealous! Have a fabulous time!
Puppies!!! I remember loving the video of the grown shiba inu (Kimiko) watching the puppies on the computer and being so confused.
I also remember liking The Poisonwood Bible, but I don't remember what happend or what it was about.
I will say, though, that Flight Behavior has really freaked me out but good about climate change, which is really what she's going for, I think, so... good for her?
Right? It was such a polemic (?), but definitely effective. It didn't help that it rained the whole week I was reading it.
I with the people who love Animal Dreams. I think I started with the Bean Trees and the other early books and didn't much like
The Poisonwood Bible
and have been unable to finished
Lacuna.
Okay - check this out tiny secret paintings in books.
"Anything you say will be used against you in a court of law" when they are supposed to mean "anything you say can/may be used against you in a court of law".
That's like the safety warnings on equipment that say "Death or injury will occur" instead of "may occur". My impression is that TV is about 50/50 on the Miranda rights, but I don't watch a lot of procedurals.
May favorite is "Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how [Drug X] will affect you!"
And....everything is on fire this morning.
Last week is "provide weeklong support as we usher ~1000 new users onto our workstation". This weekend is "do the developer part of a task you've never done this before". Yesterday is "Did you fuck up being a developer? Where are those files?" Last night is "ignore the ringing phone". This morning is "WHY IS IT DOWN????????"
Absolutely zero of this is my normal job, which has its own cataclysmic stresses. Oh, boy, ever. And zero of it is my fault (so far--I'm running through ways why this failure could be on me...). But tell my blood pressure that!
