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... It was high on my list already, but your recommendation moves it to the top. "Lovely" books are my favorite. I just read The Bean Trees last week. I put that in my lovely category. How about you? #69 The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
What a lovely book. Kingsolver has such a way of describing nature. It is wonderful and always makes me want more. This book is a nice story about people caring for others. It made me want to hug someone and tell them everything will be alright. I am reading a used copy of The Bean Trees. I found a piece of paper in it with a few notes on it about the book. I will read them when I finish the book. Fun! ... of The Lacuna. I loved it too. I've been a huge Kingsolver fan for years and I see you mentioned my personal favorite The Bean Trees. I'm hoping for more from her too.:-) ... from her others. It is a both a sweeping saga and an intimate portrait. It is less hopeful than her earlier work (like The Bean Trees). But through Shepherd, Kingsolver speaks with a voice that is honest and mature and captivating. I hope that this book, her first work of fiction in nine ... ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .. yes it is about a woman married to a gay man, but Maggie is powerful and sexy and amazing.
The Bean Trees .. Ms. Cowan loved this book and she made me want to be an English teacher. I became a librarian instead
The Girls who went Away .. it's not too often I ... ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .. yes it is about a woman married to a gay man, but Maggie is powerful and sexy and amazing.
The Bean Trees .. Ms. Cowan loved this book and she made me want to be an English teacher. I became a librarian instead
The Girls who went Away .. it's not too often I ... ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .. yes it is about a woman married to a gay man, but Maggie is powerful and sexy and amazing.
The Bean Trees .. Ms. Cowan loved this book and she made me want to be an English teacher. I became a librarian instead
The Girls who went Away .. it's not too often I ... ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .. yes it is about a woman married to a gay man, but Maggie is powerful and sexy and amazing.
The Bean Trees .. Ms. Cowan loved this book and she made me want to be an English teacher. I became a librarian instead
The Girls who went Away .. it's not too often I ... ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .. yes it is about a woman married to a gay man, but Maggie is powerful and sexy and amazing.
The Bean Trees .. Ms. Cowan loved this book and she made me want to be an English teacher. I became a librarian instead
The Girls who went Away .. it's not too often I ... Miscellaneous
1.The Bean Trees-Barbara Kingsolver read Nov. 6-13
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Happy reading! ... dult.
His writing style is great for kids - he doesn't talk down to them at all.
Hi Cushla! I'll keep my eyes open for The Bean Trees, thanks! (Although no book buying until the new year... no book buying until the new year... no book buying until the new year... *sob*) I read The Poisonwood Bible last year and quite liked it but didn't love it. But I did love The Bean Trees - much less heavy-handed on the moral of the story.
... going back to work tomorrow and it's a long book so you may catch up to me but I am a big Kingsolver fan. Have you read The Bean Trees or Pigs in Heaven? I think those two are my favorites. ... Lacuna since I heard Kingsolver was publishing her first novel in nine years. I've loved everything she's writeen, esp. The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven and The Poisonwood Bible. I'm just getting into it but I'll say it is set in Mexico 1929-30 and I believe it will span many decades and ... Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
read perhaps 10 years ago. i liked the bean trees better and animal dreams best of the 3. #59 The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 232 pages The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Bean trees by Barbara Kingsolver ... and Practical magic.
Barbara Kingsolvers books may not have magic in them, but they are magical - especially The Bean Trees.
Other than that there are:
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Troll: by Johanna Sinisalo
Forever: a novel ... ... :o)
I also finished Afterbirth, which was very funny and poignant.
Although I picked up Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees over the weekend at one of my favorite used bookstores, I'm going to hold off on it in favor of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which has been on my TBR shelf ... Some Barbara Kingsolver, like The Bean Trees. ... certainly not a 'how great everything is' book but it left me feeling that great can be brought about.
animal dreams, the bean trees and pigs in heaven by barbara kingsolver get it for me. i love animal dreams particularly although it's not considered her best.
i also enjoyed horse ... Cait - Yes, Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorites. I love The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven. Both are about Taylor Greer and her adopted daughter Turtle. Taylor is a wonderful, strong-willed heroine. These novels also include a winning cast of characters and some of the best descriptions of ... ... Elephants, and Still Life or A Rule Against Murder--Lousie Penney just won another Agatha.
oops...almost forgot The Bean Trees by Kingsolver is great!
... reading her and relished every moment.
Ahhhh, Barbara Kingsolver, now there is a writer for you. I have only read The Bean Trees but I loved it and I do have The Poisenwood Bible and one day will get to it.
You have no idea what my bookshelves are like. I have paperbacks 2 deep ... Onions in the stew Betty McDonald
The Mammoth cheese Sheri Holman
The bean trees Barbara Kingsolver
The face on the milk carton Caroline Cooney
The onion field Joseph Wambaugh ... Middle Ages 999 Medieval Nonfiction; Mt. TBR
11. The Lobster Chronicles; 999 Memoirs; library
12. The Bean Trees; Mt. TBR
13. Life in a Medieval Castle; 999 Medeival Nonficiton; Mt. TBR
14. The Hobbit; 999 Science Fiction/Fantasy Mt. TBR
15 ... ... ter
Lily, The Secret Life of Bees
Eloise, in Eloise
Leslie, Bridge to Terabithia
Elphaba, Wicked
Taylor Greer, The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven
And many more I'll remember as soon as I submit this post! ... wouldn't have touched it with a 10 ft pole? :-)
#443: Carmenere: I actually bought The Poisonwood Bible before The Bean Trees, and just wound up grabbing the latter first off the shelf. I love the way Kingsolver writes--I have her Animal Dreams, which I really like. I want to ... ... Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
16. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
15. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
14. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
13. Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
12. Shiloh and the Western Campaign ... Thanks for the reviews, joycepa. I remember The Bean Trees fondly (I read it several years ago), and highly recommend The Poisonwood Bible if you haven't read it already. Completely different set of circumstances and setting between the two novels and the amount of research it must have taken ... Stasia, I seem to be following you around, seconding other people's recommendations...
I re-read The Bean Trees in the summer of 2007, as an antidote to difficult circumstances. It was perfect medicine. I love her prose and her characters. And I still need to read Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ... The Worst Hard Time is already on Continent TBR or I would add it again.
I have not yet read Kingsolver's The Bean Trees but maybe I will get to it this year. I already have her Animal, Vegetable, Mineral on my TBR list for the year. ... Book Award. I don't understand why it didn't win a Pulitzer. Every American should be forced to read this book.
15. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver. Kingsolver writes tough, realistic life-affirming books, and this is one of them. I could not bear to pick up anything really ... ... because I loved her other books and this one is so completely different! I read Prodigal Summer, Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees and I really liked them! Try those, I think you'll see what I mean, its like a completely different author.
I was just talking to a friend about this ... ... Five Fiction (in no particular order):
Mudbound - Hillary Jordan
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
The Boat - Nam Le
Top Five Nonfiction (in no ... ... Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
16. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
15. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
14. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
13. Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
12. Shiloh and the Western Campa ... ... Five Fiction (in no particular order):
Mudbound - Hillary Jordan
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
The Boat - Nam Le
Top Five Nonfiction (in no ... ... the author's fault - that just the way real life goes sometimes.
I Loved This Character: Taylor Greer - Heroine of The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
How Nice to See an Old Friend: Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon - For fans of the Mitford series, it's great to have Fath ... I only read Kingsolver's Bean Trees (for my high school summer reading)..so I can't really say I am a fan or not..(I am even going to try..I think it's unfair to make up my mind so..hastily..)
I read Dostoyevsky..oh..not recently..
I read his Crime and Punishment in Korean translation..but ... Nickelini: Among Barbara Kingsolver's book, I have only read The Bean Trees, and thuoght it quite interesting..Fugitive Pieces seem quite interesting as well..^^
(I don't know why, but I feel happier when my piles of TBR are growing..is it only me..?)
wrmjr66: decoding DNA..very ... Went to a used book store, man how I love them.
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Ex-Libris by Ross King
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
NightWatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
... know which one to make my reading now book. Arg!
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Ex-Libris by Ross King
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
NightWatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
don't know which one ... ... also has some non-fiction writing. But they both also have some excellent fiction too.. I've been recommending March and The Bean Trees quite a bit lately at work (I'm a librarian.) ... in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver ****
I read at least the beginning of Pigs in Heaven around the time I first read The Bean Trees (about fifteen years ago). I remember very distinctly one line near the beginning of the book and am reasonably sure I remember where I was when I read it. ... 126: fyrefly98, Good to know ... I should put Pigs in heaven further down my TBR pile until I get a copy of The Bean Trees then.
130: DerBuecherwurm, I know what you mean .... with all the great reviews and recommendations I've been getting from everyone here, my TBR piles are resembling ... >118 cameling - I'm glad you liked Animal Dreams; Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors. Have you read The Bean Trees? It's her first novel, and it shows (not quite as polished as her later stuff), but it provides a lot of important background story for Pigs in Heaven. I read The Poisonwood Bible years ago after reading The Bean Trees for school and loving it. I'm looking forward to rereading and joining everyone in the discussion, though I may be a bit quiet this week from limited internet access. ... for years. Somehow it never makes it to the top of the pile, even though I read another of Barbara Kingsolver's books (the Bean Trees) and loved it.
I have 2 pre-schoolers and find it pretty hard to get reading time, so I may fall behind, but I'll try to keep up!
Cheers
Cushla ... tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Harbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign." from The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
ETA - Typos ... I chose it: Read the first book in the series years ago; found out through PaperbackSwap that there was a sequel
I loved The Bean Trees (I read it almost ten years ago), so as soon as I found out there was a sequel, I snapped it up. This one didn't grab me quite as much, but I still enjoyed ... The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
Children of the Corn by Stephen King
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
The Woods by Harlen Coben
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
The Golden Spruce by John Valiant ... by Daniel Pinkwater
The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
Burger Wuss by M.T. Anderson
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Grinning in his Mashed Potatoes by Margaret Moseley ...
Izzy Spellman from The Spellman Files
Mary Russell from Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes books
and
Taylor Greer from The Bean Trees ... giving an author a second chance really works. Take Barbara Kingsolver, for instance. I wasn't all that crazy about The Bean Trees, but when I read her two books of essays, they blew me away. I'd found a woman of my heart! Even as we speak, I'm looking through Kingsolver's book Animal, ... ... been to that bookstore too and loved it!! I think it was owned by Canadians, but don't know why I think that. I bought The Bean Trees and read it the same week. These came in the mail today from several different book trading sites:
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
The Jewel of Seven Stars ... ...
-ATONEMENTby Ian McEwan (Romance)
-BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESSby Dai Sijie (Historical
Fiction)
-THE BEAN TREESby Barbara Kingsolver (Fiction)
-BEE SEASONby Myla Goldberg (Religion/Spirituality)
-BEGINNER'S LUCKby Laura Pedersen (Fiction)
-BEL CANTO by Ann P ... ... p
03/04/08 When the day of evil comes - Melanie Wells-317p.
03/05/08 The soul hunter - Melanie Wells-318p.
03/07/08 The bean trees -Barbara Kingsolver-246p.
03/09/08 Atonement – Ian McEwen- 351p
03/10/08 The Gathering – Anne Enright- 261p
03/11/08 Out stealing horses – Pe ... The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
White Apples by Jonathan Carroll or Rotten Apples by Edith Pinero Green or Golden Appels of the Sun by Ray Bradbury
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich
Popcorn by Ben Elton
Juniper, Gentian, And Rosemary by Pamela Dean (mo ... ... Sammy's House - Kristin Gore - Finished January 2, 2008
A light read about a young, quirky White House aide
#2 - The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - Finished January 7, 2008
Wonderful! An amazing story with one of the most memorable main characters I've read in a while. Also ... The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver read Anywhere but Here
The Bean Trees
I Been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots
The Kitchen God's Wife
Mary O'Grady
Praxis
Riding in Cars with Boys- saw the movie, didn't read the book
Virginia and
The Woman Who Was Not All There I am surprised at how many I read in this category - all before I became a mother!
Anywhere but Here
The Bean Trees
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots
The Kitchen God's Wife
Riding in Cars with Boys
The Woman Who Was Not All There
Funny, I don't seem to ... Mothers and Mothering
Anywhere but Here, Mona Simpson (novel, US)
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver (novel, US)
The Big Mama Stories. Shay Youngblood (short stories, US)
The Bridge of Beyond, Simone Schwartz-Bart (novel, Guadeloupe)
Child of Fortune, Yúko Tsushima (novel, J ... 1. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver ***1/2
My very first notebook of books I've read (begun in 1993, when I was a wee twelve-year-old sprout) tells me I've read this before, but I can't say I remember it. I didn't start writing down my impressions of books until several years into the ... Try Barbara KingsolverThe Bean Trees I loved that, but I listened to {poisonwood Bible on audiobook so maybe that's why I could get through it. Also the The Thirteenth Tale was definitely too long,but I did listen to that one also. I have read Running With Scissors but not Magical Thinki ... Just finished The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver for my english class and am now reaading The Dream of the Stone by Christina Askounis. ... Gift, and Middlesex are three favorites that I read in the past year.
I didn't much care for The Good Earth, The Hours, or Beloved. #20teelgee: The Hours is one of my favorite books. I thought the movie was excellent, too. I've reread the book since the movie came out, and, as with Harry Potter, I see the actors as I read. #23 Teelgee - you should write about your experience with reading Mrs Dalloway and The Hours in the books compared group:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/bookscompared
Well they're working much better, at least I'm getting something. But I just entered The Hours and it comes up with The Bean Trees ???? ... more), I just binged. I bought:
Seabiscuit because my boyfriend loves the movie, but I don't think he's read it yet.
The Hours (wrong touchstone!)
The Lost Princess by Charles Kaesshaefer (again, wrong touchstone; signed by the author!)
Gods, Graves, and Scholars: the story of ... ... book, sadly still quite timely too-if you haven't read it, avaland, you should!
My younger niece has been assigned The Bean Trees two years in a row now for AP honors English! She says she practically has it memorized-unfortunately, rereading it doesn't seem to have made her like it any ... I did a little better than Rebecca and read Backlash, The Bean Trees, The Bell Jar, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Bone, Bonjour Tristesse, and Brown Girl, Brownstones. If the word used in the title were 'important' or 'influential', I would be more in agreement with the choices. i ... Here are the B's:
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Bell Jarby Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange
Beyond God the Father: Towards a Philosophy of Women' ... ... a typo habbit, I rechecked them today and found the strangest of things. The tags for my copy of Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees now consist of tags that would indentify the book as a Harry Potter reference book. I'm not really sure what to do about it. Hopefully, I can log out, log ... 45. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
A re-read. I needed something light to occupy my mind while my daughter is in the hospital. This served me well. I love how Kingsolver creates characters that are unique, yet totally believable. Within a very few pages, you know each person very ... ... Breakfast by Bill Richardson
Book of Bad Songs by Dave Barry
Four to Score and High Five by Janet Evanovich
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Dave Cooks the Turkey by Stuart McLean
... the Tree by Lloyd Alexander
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
The Devil in a Forest by Gene Wolfe
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Summer Tree by Guy G Kay ... Time by Molly Keane (blind cousin comes to visit, disrupting the routine lives of three aging sisters and brother)
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (not the main character, but I would say a primary one)
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander (blind detective)
I couldn't think ... ... of pages I had to force myself through. Wonderful character studies and just a shocking novel.
RebeccaNYC, I liked both The bean trees and the poisonwood bible. It has been probably close to ten years since I read the bean trees, but I remember loving the prose so much. With poisonwood ... ... essays that will just take you away. Stunning stuff. Some of her fiction is set in Arizona, and it's all worth reading. The Bean Trees and Animal Dreams are two. ... 19..so it hasn't been too long since I was your age...my reccomendations would have to be...lets see:
Wuthering Heights, The Bean Trees, I loved Catherine Called Birdie but that might be a bit young...oh and of course Girl with a Pearl Earring is a must!
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