Animal Dreams

by Barbara Kingsolver | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0060921145 Global Overview for this book
Registered by writergrl of Albuquerque, New Mexico USA on 1/31/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by writergrl from Albuquerque, New Mexico USA on Saturday, January 31, 2004
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Journal Entry 2 by writergrl from Albuquerque, New Mexico USA on Sunday, November 28, 2004
I decided to read this one over Thanksgiving break starting on the bus to my hometown in Carlsbad, NM. It turned out to be an appropriate book for that time because it's about a woman who felt like an outsider in her hometown, because everyone else looks the same, and she and her sister and father are the only "gringos". She finds out that her connections to the town run much deeper than she had thought and how close she feels to them. She realizes she had "50 mothers". I could also relate to the book because she and her sister had a very strict and distant father who was incapable of showing emotion. My father isn't as bad as that, but he was more like that when we were kids.

It also brought up some unintended political discussion with my grandmother because in the book the sister goes to Nicaragua to help on a farm collective, which got my grandmother raving about how horrible the communists were, like she likes to do to make me feel guilty for being a liberal. This time it didn't work though.

I finished the book on the greyhound on the way back and left it at the station in Albuquerque. It was enjoyable and gave me a good feeling to read it, but it was typical Kinsolver in that the loose ends were tied just a little too neatly.

Journal Entry 3 by writergrl at Greyhound Bus Station in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA on Sunday, November 28, 2004
Released on Saturday, November 27, 2004 at about 5:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Greyhound bus station in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA.

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Left in a pay-phone booth after I got home on Saturday.

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