Barbara #kingsolver
What a #story teller!

I've just finished _Demon Copperhead_ by Barbara Kingsolver, and it was great. Hard work, and painful to read in parts, but a really good book.
Here is my review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a26035a8-0fc0-4fba-aec2-c65dd4cef575
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Barbara #Kingsolver's Demon Copperhad is strongly based on 'Dickens' David Copperfield. To help me understand the former, I've just re-read the latter. It's great!
See https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c41c53f4-aba6-4965-9716-1348a495ffe4

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Dejo título de 3 libros que me han flipado muchísimo en el último par de años:

Nuestra parte de noche, de Mariana Enríquez. Absorbente, tenebroso de formas que ni te imaginas.

Un caballero en Moscú, de Amor Towles. Delicioso en todos los aspectos, una rareza maravillosa.

La Biblia envenenada, de Barbara Kingsolver. El Congo en vena, novelón construído sobre hechos históricos que derriba como moscas unas cuantas hipocresías de esas sólidas que los occidentales asumimos casi por defecto.

There’s a lot to unpack here.

“So she sat up the rest of the night making notes and downloaded David Copperfield to reread on the flight back. ‘It was a masterclass,’ she says. ‘Learning all the tricks that he used ...’

“She finally had her way into writing about the “lost boys” of Appalachia, where 40% of children are raised by someone else, either because their parents are dead, in prison or too incapacitated by addiction.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/16/barbara-kingsolver-rural-people-are-so-angry-they-want-to-blow-up-the-system