Animal Dreams
Registered by mellion108 of Waterford, Michigan USA on 6/27/2003
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
I've only read Pigs in Heaven by Kingsolver, but I loved it. I found this gem at a used bookstore, and I couldn't let it just sit there. It will have a home with me until I release it to someone else.
From the back cover:
"Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime, just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
From the back cover:
"Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime, just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
Simply put? This book is excellent! I truly enjoyed reading it, although it is, at times, very heart-wrenching. I offered this book on a Relay last weekend and then got it out to prepare it for shipping when I realized that I hadn't read it. I'm glad I took a few days to jump into it. It really is a gripping, amazing story (and I now think I need to find a Loyd for myself *grin*).
One of my favorite quotes from the book is when Hallie writes to Codi:
Codi, here's what I've decided: the very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.
Be the change you wish to see, eh?
Anyway, I've never read The Bean Trees, so now I'll be on the lookout for that book.
This little gem is now on its way to Canada. Enjoy!
One of my favorite quotes from the book is when Hallie writes to Codi:
Codi, here's what I've decided: the very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That's about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.
Be the change you wish to see, eh?
Anyway, I've never read The Bean Trees, so now I'll be on the lookout for that book.
This little gem is now on its way to Canada. Enjoy!
Arrived safe and sound today. Thank you!
Ahhhh a nice satisfying book. I too loved that quote mellion108. I have a new home already picked out for this book.
Sending as a Trade to redhouse. Enjoy!
I didn't take it to France after all, somehow it got left out of my bag, and I've just found it languishing unread amongst my holiday stuff.
I'm adding it to my availables as I'm drowning in books at the moment. If it doesn't get requested for trade then I may get to it once I clear Mount Toobie, which I am determined to do.
I'm adding it to my availables as I'm drowning in books at the moment. If it doesn't get requested for trade then I may get to it once I clear Mount Toobie, which I am determined to do.
Journal Entry 8 by lellie at BookMooch Member in Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, March 29, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (3/29/2008 UTC) at BookMooch Member in Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases
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