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13 December 2006

I need some Poisonwood Bible read-alikes! Okay, so it kinda slipped my mind that I need to have this thing prepared for tomorrow morning, and I'm hoping you can help me. I need some books that are similar somehow to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, a book I have never read. Any suggestions?

post by: box at: 13:59 | 10 comments

Similar in content, writing style...?

posted by Specklet 13 December | 14:34

Either one would be pretty okay, really. Things that a hypothetical P-wood Bible reader might conceivably also enjoy.

posted by box 13 December | 15:03

Box, check your gmail. I copied and pasted seom stuff from Novelist.

posted by jessamyn 13 December | 15:25

Also, there's this

posted by jessamyn 13 December | 15:27

Thanks, Jess! I only today learned that it was an Oprah book.

posted by box 13 December | 15:35

Several years ago, we had a book on tape for a trip, a book of essays by Kingsolver. We started out liking it, buy after awhile it seemed to turn into "this is how you should live and if you do not do everything I tell you, and I mean everything, then you are killing the planet." It got annoying to the max. I hear that her novels are wonderful but I am totally turned off by her now.

posted by danf 13 December | 15:49

I <3 Barbara Kingsolver. Especially Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer.

posted by terrapin 13 December | 16:01

Hiya terrapin--haven't seen you in a while. You Vermonters are so helpful. Okay, so are there any books you'd recommend to another, hypothetical Poisonwood Bible-lover?

posted by box 13 December | 17:53

Maybe Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, or The Known World by Edward Jones, or Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River... All very different, yet similar... elegant, rich prose... profound stories... individuals in larger historical contexts... books that ask the "big questions" in a quiet way...

posted by Pips 13 December | 18:59

OMG HOW DID IT GO??!?!

posted by jessamyn 14 December | 10:33

← THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! I AM A FOOLISH SPECKLET! F*CK! || We lived through another day →

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