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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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

Not my day. Going back to reading #Kingsolver
Wordle 535 X/6

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Finished Demon Copperhead by #Kingsolver. Fantastic writing-I think it's her best yet.