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July 06, 2007
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Pigs in Heaven (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Kim
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The Bean Trees (Paperback)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Kim
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by Terry Tempest Williams
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Kim said:
"This series of essays is written by a woman who happens to be Mormon. The fact she is Mormon seems to do more with geography in this book, than by choice. It is a wonderful series of essays because she is a naturalist in writing. The Salt Lake and ...more
This series of essays is written by a woman who happens to be Mormon. The fact she is Mormon seems to do more with geography in this book, than by choice. It is a wonderful series of essays because she is a naturalist in writing. The Salt Lake and the environment around there take on almost a divine beauty in the way she describes it. There are some poignant, wonderful tender essays about the land, and her mother and her writing style is just that - tender....less
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Kim
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Until I Find You: A Novel (Paperback)
by John Irving
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Kim said:
"I love John Irving. However, while this book is good, it is not great - not along the lines of Cider House Rules, Hotel New Hampshire or A Prayer for Owen Meany. But that is John Irving. While I enjoy the wide and crazy assortment of characters in ...more
I love John Irving. However, while this book is good, it is not great - not along the lines of Cider House Rules, Hotel New Hampshire or A Prayer for Owen Meany. But that is John Irving. While I enjoy the wide and crazy assortment of characters in the book, I didn't feel like I bonded with any of them, or their stories, the way I would in a "great" book. ...less
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Kim
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A Prayer for Owen Meany (Paperback)
by John Irving
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July 02, 2007
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Kim
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The Known World (Paperback)
by Edward P. Jones
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Kim said:
"I love this book. It is a difficult book to read at times - not only due to subject, but because the writing style is rather unique. The subject is slavery, and explores the lives of a family of freed slaves, who own slaves themselves and the inter...more
I love this book. It is a difficult book to read at times - not only due to subject, but because the writing style is rather unique. The subject is slavery, and explores the lives of a family of freed slaves, who own slaves themselves and the interaction between them and the rest of the world. One could say it is a tragic book, except that really, can slavery have any other course? It's beautifully written. It is written in a rather austere manner, and then there will be a line that will just catch your heart and you want to just keep re-reading the line. Beautiful....less
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Kim
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition (Paperback)
by Marc Reisner
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Kim said:
"This is an excellent book on the water wars of the west. It focuses primarily on the rise of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation back in the heyday of the New Deal. The scarcity of water is a tremendous topic that will always ...more
This is an excellent book on the water wars of the west. It focuses primarily on the rise of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation back in the heyday of the New Deal. The scarcity of water is a tremendous topic that will always be prevalent in our region, but the lengths that we will go to divert and hoard it is mindboggling. Even more disheartening is how engineering is admired as a way for us to carve our way away from the natural course of things... Lake Powell anyone?...less
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Kim
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The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable Agriculture (Paperback)
by James E., Ph.D. Horne
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Kim said:
"I just got this book from Amazon. yay. I love getting books in the mail. It's green. It's about agriculture. it's about sustainability. What more can I say?
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Kim
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The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)
by John Irving
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Kim said:
"John Irving is a prolific writer. It is my opinion that one out of every three books he writes is a genius piece of writing. The Cider House Rules is in my top ten of books (what are my other nine? who knows!there are so many). What I love about th...more
John Irving is a prolific writer. It is my opinion that one out of every three books he writes is a genius piece of writing. The Cider House Rules is in my top ten of books (what are my other nine? who knows!there are so many). What I love about this book in particular is Homer. I have a weak-spot for sincere, rather geeky, but very earnest young men who are trying their best to be good people in an often bad world. Abortion is a big subject in this book, but only as a platform for making the choices to do what is right, what is compassionate, human. Saints aren't complete angels, but neither are all devils bad. Peace....less
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Kim
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She's Come Undone (Paperback)
by Wally Lamb
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Kim said:
"I am a big fan of Wally Lamb. If you didn't know it, you would have thought he was a woman. This book is fabulous if you haven't read it. Sometimes it's hard to read books about people in pain, the awkward and the sad. But this book treats the her...more
I am a big fan of Wally Lamb. If you didn't know it, you would have thought he was a woman. This book is fabulous if you haven't read it. Sometimes it's hard to read books about people in pain, the awkward and the sad. But this book treats the heroine with humor and real compassion. And she is a heroine. Aren't we all?...less
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