[The Lacuna] by [[Barbara Kingsolver]]

After getting off to a slow start, (and being encouraged by two other readers), halfway through The Lacuna, I am loving it. To me it reads like it is historical and not just fiction. I can already tell that it is going to lead me in several different ways but hopefully I can put it off until after All Virago/All August. I am especially fascinated with Trotsky. Frida, I have studied in the past but now I want to go back and do it again. What a story, what a book!~! If you've not read it, please do. It is very good once you find your way into it.
hugs all round,
belva

Yay! So glad you're enjoying it! It gets better and better as you go.

#1 So glad you are enjoying that one after the slow start Belva.

Belva, you've encouraged me to try this one again. I started it about a year ago and gave up. I probably won't read it for Orange July, but I will try again at some point!

Katie,
I hope that you do give The Lacuna another try and I am very grateful for the encouragement I got here to keep going. I think this one is truly worth it. I have found that my reading of it has slowed, as I don't want to put it down. LOL!~! Perhaps you might save it up for Orange January or next July.
hugs,

I didn't want that to happen, but somehow I knew that it would.

I loved this book. I do admit that it took me a few extra pages to get into it but I loved everything about this book. I liked the characters very much. I like that it put a hunger in me to reach out for more information on the real life persons in it and also for the era; social and political. (always thought McCarthy sucked; still do, the same with Hoover) I loved the 'color' of the book, how I could see, hear, smell, really feel what was going on and the surroundings as well. A beautifully drawn book is The Lacuna. I highly recommend it and give it 4 1/2 stars. I think I would have given it 5 had it not been for the slow start and the drop off for me in the midst of the letters.