https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/09/07/why-oliver-anthony-went-viral/
I decided to take a deeper dive into Oliver Anthony and look at him as a musician. My honest take: there is a cultural miscommunication going on and I think it needs to be addressed. Also I like the guy.
#Culture, #BarbaraKingsolver, #Country, #Internet, #music, #OliverAnthony, #politics, #RichMenNorthofRichmond

https://youtu.be/xsddxI0TZuc?si=1khXR8au1Fiqjqbf
If you want to know why #OliverAnthony went viral listen to this woman.
#BarbaraKingsolver, #Appalachia, #EzraKlein

@DeanObeidallah like Mr Armstrong says in Demon Copperhead - you can’t fly both the confederate flag and the USA 🇺🇸 flag #barbarakingsolver

This book is an exquisite roller coaster of every human emotion imaginable that will break and mend your heart countless times. #Books #reading #BarbaraKingsolver #DemonCopperhead

Can't stop thinking about Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver after reading it a few months ago. Today she suggests a reading list to dive more deeply into Appalachian culture and history. (Gifted article, no paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/books/barbara-kingsolver-appalachia-books.html?unlocked_article_code=VyJuJc9l9Qc1hKJYoEVWtFl4yTJYUKTk-8DR_cSBwBnNPV_Zunac5Kx3wWTQJTawt7MHzDZmICVUreR0KL1tAFPgICInm92zOUFHkn9dA8X138jnZCAi9MNcVP4QCU80OsQdhW6h7AFImStUjlFasXpShgdT4a3xoCJhrSLvwjEM2Iqgd0MC6li1l-ItvnhvMjnaR7cW1bt-hKTMnzRd1IWAh2pNE4kUD2AQYwr_l8KC6V8vXWdelwVCU3i3OxWmQvS4MB3fkmFrng_tzqwAEEIdyQKPNDCJbVQh59x6kiwVlZUA0Ej0lnW3nEyOwSxince1WG3GDipegIPkJEOAa-LIPHVfuWgCyoe_&smid=url-share
And the Ezra Klein interview is equally wonderful:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@maureenk/110856893757592751
@bookstodon #BarbaraKingsolver #Appalachia

Great Googly Moogly! Out of the few thousand books that I have read in my life, #DemonCopperhead is in the top 10. #BarbaraKingsolver stuck the landing perfectly. The #Pulitzer folks got this one right.

#GreatBooks #ImInLove

we’ve been on vacation for the past week, the last bit at a tiny lake house in rural Ohio: hammock, shady tree, nothing else to do but read.

My 2023 reading goal is 10,000 pages and I plowed through a 1,000 of them in the past week, Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead a significant chunk of that.

it was really fucking good. Over 600 pages, she builds a voice for her character, and stays true to it without once veering into cliche.

Even though, the Mountain Goats fan I am, I kept spotting themes and stories that he explores in his lyrics: Fall of the High School Running Back, the Alpha Couple songs, really all Tallahassee.

so yeah, I fucking loved it. and most importantly, it’s given me a newly found sympathy and hope for the people we coastal elites are told to sneer at and hate.

#bookstodon #currentlyreading #demoncopperhead #barbarakingsolver #themountaingoats #tmg #johndarnielle

Very much an “I see what you did there, Barbara Kingsolver” moment at this point in “Demon Copperhead”.

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@bookstodon
#Books #Bookstodon #BarbaraKingsolver #DemonCopperhead #Dickens #Salinger

Love this interview: “I understand why rural people are so mad they want to blow up the system,” she says. “That contempt of urban culture for half the country. I feel like I’m an ambassador between these worlds, trying to explain that if you want to have a conversation you don’t start it with the words, ‘You idiot.’”

“I think I maybe have a better understanding of women than Dickens,” she hoots. “I’ll claim that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/16/barbara-kingsolver-rural-people-are-so-angry-they-want-to-blow-up-the-system
#DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver @bookstodon

Finished reading #DemonCopperhead last night. Brilliant, necessary. #BarbaraKingsolver is a genius. #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #literature #Appalachia

Really enjoyed #StartTheWeek @BBCRadio4 just now. #NatalieHaynes #BarbaraKingsolver & #MichaelRosen all taking part from @hayfestival So good.😊

Best Start the Week episode ever, this morning?
@bbcradio4 #DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver #MichaelRosen #NatalieHaynes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mc1k

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: The LGBTQ+ Books and Kelly Clarkson Singles That Got Us Through the Week https://jezebel.com/the-lgbtq-books-and-kelly-clarkson-singles-that-got-us-1850455294 #Jezebel #entertainment2cculture #violetkeppeltrefusis #norabiettetimmons #barbarakingsolver #kyliecheunglisten #vitasackvillewest #laurentousignant #kadyruthashcraft #williamhmcraven #chadwickboseman #thenbaplayoffs #natethehoofguy #carlyraejepsen #kellyclarkson #superjazzclub #laurabassett

La tristesse, c'est un peu comme un rhume de cerveau - avec de la patience, ça passe. La dépression, c'est comme le cancer.

#BarbaraKingsolver / L'arbre aux haricots (1988)

I just finished Demon CopperHead by #barbarakingsolver 5 ⭐️! What should I read next? #bookstodon #books @bookstodon

"Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho." — Barbara Kingsolver — — — #BarbaraKingsolver #quote #quotes #internet #friends #funny

Started reading the novel "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver. I've read a couple of chapters and I'm loving the character's voice.

#DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver #fiction #bookstodon

@owlislost @bookstodon
About 3/4 way through Barbara Kingsolver's epic novel Demon Copperhead. Highly recommended!!!
#DemonCopperhead #BarbaraKingsolver

Bookclub2 just read Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperfield.

Since I was asked to join this new group 2 days earlier, there clearly wasn't enough time to read the 548 page novel.

However I was able to contribute to the discussion by watching the brilliant BookStorm Podcast.

There are no spoilers but an in- depth look at some of the main themes,

spending much of our lives finding love and acceptance, friends type family, community and networks,

as well as compassion, addiction, poverty, under-funded educational systems, and foster care which is an outrageous for profit in the US.

Basically Damon the boy becomes a commodity.

It’s a story I haven’t read, and probably never will because the next book is over 700 pages long! What? Looking forward to it though,

Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel. I’ll do my best. I’ve already started watching videos about Lee Krasner whilst waiting for the book from our library.

#BookStormPodcast
#DemonCopperhead
#BarbaraKIngSolver

#NinthStWomen #MaryGabriel

I recently started reading “Demon Cooperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver, a modern-day retelling of David Copperfield. The voice of the main character is so compelling! Almost every paragraph is either hilarious or hauntingly tragic or somehow both at the same time. The pages are flying by. I can already tell this will be one of my all-time favorites.

#books #demoncopperhead #barbarakingsolver #dickens