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March 27, 2019 1

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Hubs took Bubs out so I took a nice, short walk to a nice, quiet lunch for one.

Have had a very frustrating few days reading wise. Started and stopped 2 books. Lili Wilkinson's "After the Lights Go Out" is a winner though and I'm right into it.

4.5⭐ This Bali holiday has been exactly what I wanted - unhurried and relaxed. Took me longer than I thought to finish Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior" and it was slow to start but managed to blow me away in the end. I am a big greenie and animal lover so I feel I don't need to nor can I stomach stories about the hopelessness of climate change or animal cruelty because I'm already a devotee. Yet this story totally drew me in and gave me a whole new perspective on the type of climate change deniers described. There is also the irony that as someone in a lower socio-economic class, Dellarobia is probably living the life all greenies would aspire to. However, in wanting to lift herself out of that, she may also be moving into the class of people that are the main cause of the problem. Yet, ultimately, it's also the story of the butterflies that totally entranced me. Starting with simple wonder, basking in their beauty, curiosity, then worry and hopelessness. I like how the story ends with an uncertain hope.

2⭐ Not sure if I was influenced by my literary mood when I read this but I really didn't like it. I loved One Hundred Years of Solitude so this was disappointing. It's like a cross between William Golding's The Spire, Lolita and The Crucible. Where Lolita was confronting, this was just cringe-y. Maybe I just find the subject of obsessive love of a man and what is basically a child, unoriginal after Lolita. I also found the staccato style of writing really hard to follow. The ending also seems like a cop-out. Lucky I had yummy cake to make up for it 😁

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