Flight Behaviour
Registered by 
OBCZ-TeddysDen
of Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden Switzerland on 2/10/2020
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
OBCZ-TeddysDen of Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden Switzerland on 2/10/2020 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by OBCZ-TeddysDen from Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden Switzerland on Monday, February 10, 2020
OBCZ-TeddysDen from Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden Switzerland on Monday, February 10, 2020
it goes to spy-there
For spy-there.
Wow, a Kingsolver I don't know yet :)
thank you, manuma !
thank you, manuma !
The heroine is a dissatisfied housewife with the ridiculous name of Dellarobia.
She lives with two children and husband on a farm in Appalachia in the fictive hamlet of Feathertown. Dellarobia got into this marriage by accident (pregnant in high school) and asks herself, why she didn't leave her simpleton of a husband after she miscarried the first baby. In her life and especially in Feathertown there is not much to look forward to: a supermarket and a church, the sermon and the Sunday congregations. Dellarobia starts a fling with a young, good looking service man from the telephone company and secretly hikes to her tryst up to the old hunter's cabin. That's when she discovers the Monarch butterflies, millions, covering all the trees in the valley. The pious people of Feathertown take it as a miracle of God.
The story needs time to take off, but with the reasonable voice of lepidopterist Dr. Byron it started to be interesting. I suddenly could engage in the dumb, quotidian details of Dellarobia's life and how she stumbles into a life-altering journey of conscience. Not only climate change is at hand, but the heroine's eventually successful attempts to change her life, to swap the cage of marriage with the freedom of autonomy and uncertainty.
The climate issue is of course the serious background of this family story, but Kingsolver doesn't rub it in. Very subtle and logical she only hints, her base is science, not environmentists' fight. This is an enthralling, comprehensible novel about climat change; everybody who scorns at Greta should at least try to read this book.
She lives with two children and husband on a farm in Appalachia in the fictive hamlet of Feathertown. Dellarobia got into this marriage by accident (pregnant in high school) and asks herself, why she didn't leave her simpleton of a husband after she miscarried the first baby. In her life and especially in Feathertown there is not much to look forward to: a supermarket and a church, the sermon and the Sunday congregations. Dellarobia starts a fling with a young, good looking service man from the telephone company and secretly hikes to her tryst up to the old hunter's cabin. That's when she discovers the Monarch butterflies, millions, covering all the trees in the valley. The pious people of Feathertown take it as a miracle of God.
The story needs time to take off, but with the reasonable voice of lepidopterist Dr. Byron it started to be interesting. I suddenly could engage in the dumb, quotidian details of Dellarobia's life and how she stumbles into a life-altering journey of conscience. Not only climate change is at hand, but the heroine's eventually successful attempts to change her life, to swap the cage of marriage with the freedom of autonomy and uncertainty.
The climate issue is of course the serious background of this family story, but Kingsolver doesn't rub it in. Very subtle and logical she only hints, her base is science, not environmentists' fight. This is an enthralling, comprehensible novel about climat change; everybody who scorns at Greta should at least try to read this book.
Journal Entry 5 by spy-there at Cool Books in Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on Wednesday, September 29, 2021
in the fridge
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Dear finder
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happy reading
=^,^= spy
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Dear finder
Thank you for looking up Bookcrossing and entering the number. Please, kindly write a short journal entry, that you own the book now. You can do this anonymously, but it's much more fun if you'll become a member and write under your nick name. It's still anonymous, but you'll get a notification every time somebody writes a new entry. You are able to follow the book's voyage and read the opinions of other readers. Bookcrossing is fun, it's free and free of spam. Try it, it might change your life. Or at least your bookshelf ;)
happy reading
=^,^= spy
