#Demon Copperhead

[llovelymoonn]

on july

allie ray holler \\ charlotte brontë jane eyre \\ charlotte eriksson \\ eileen miles hot night \\ barbara kingsolver barbara kingsolver \\ franz kafka diaries of franz kafka, 1914-1923: “july 16, 1912″ \\ gurpiar sidhu \\ czesław miłosz new and collected poems: 1931-2001: “a magic mountain” (tr. czesław miłosz) (via @soracities​) \\ rick bass the wild marsh: four seasons at home in montana

buy my chai latte because i spent way too much money on them this week x

[quotespile]

Trust the road. Because nobody stays, in the long run you’re on your own with your ghosts. You’re the ship, they’re the bottle.

Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

[armandgender]

gotta go outside and look at some moss now tbh

[thenightpost]

There's this thing that happens, let's say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You're all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy's face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shitter. He comes out of the stall with this look. He heard everything. And you realize you're not really that nice of a guy. This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you. - Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

[100-great-books]

[memoirsofabibliophile]

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver moodboard created on Landing

“We both lay back down, and she looked at me in the eyes, and we were sad together for a while. I’ll never forget how that felt. Like not being hungry.”

[mantaraymax]

the things i would do to witness a catfight between these two cunts i love them

[derangedrhythms]

[…] the moon-dead dark.

Barbara Kingsolver, from 'Demon Copperhead'

[lydia-too-late]

"But where did it come from, this wanting disease? From how I got born, or the ones that made me, or the crowd I ran with later? Everybody warns about bad influences, but it's these things already inside you that are going to take you down. The restlessness in your gut, like tomcats gone stupid with their blood feuds, prowling around in the moon-dead dark. The hopeless wishes that won't quit stalking you: some perfect words you think you could say to somebody to make them see you, and love you, and stay."

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

[lachimera-blog]

Era una di quelle giornate d'autunno in cui sembra che il mondo stia per cambiare idea su tutto. Con le cicale che frinivano, l'aria ferma, l'estate che aveva smesso di lottare.

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

[senny-wenny]

Judge me based on the books I brought on vacation

[llovelymoonn]

on april

barbara kingsolver demon copperhead \\ sara teasdale a november night \\ fatima aamer bilal i mother it, the absence of her ii. i was hard to bear from the very start (via @ivynightshade) \\ anne carson the glass essay (via @petaltexturedskies) \\ raymond p. fischer an aged man remembers april \\ cyrus cassells \\ anton chekhov love \\ t.s eliot the waste land \\ michelle o'sullivan the flower and the frozen sea: "bespoke"

kofi

[quotespile]

People love to believe in danger, as long as it’s you in harm’s way, and them saying bless your heart.

Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

[heartsbreath]

“Tutti a metterti in guardia dalle cattive influenze, ma sono le cose che hai dentro di te a trascinarti davvero giú. Quell'irrequietezza che hai nelle viscere, come gatti randagi impazziti per le loro faide di sangue che si aggirano nel buio delle notti senza luna. Desideri senza speranza che non smettono mai di tormentarti: parole perfette che credi di poter dire a qualcuno per costringerlo a vederti, amarti, restare. O che potresti dire al tuo specchio per la medesima ragione.”

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

[musician-not-magician]

August Books

I used 🌈 to indicate LGBTQ+ featured characters within the book. I rated each book from ⭐️ - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The books are listed in the order that I completed them.

“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Blacktongue Thief” by Christopher Buehlman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Renfield” by Barbara Hambly ⭐️⭐️

“Steep Trails” by John Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Dark Tales” by Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Time of Contempt” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” by Moniquill Blackgoose ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Darkening” by Sunya Mara ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Faebound” by Saara El-Arifi ⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Handmaid’s Trail” by Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Baptism of Fire” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Burning God” by R. F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Wicked King” by Holly Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Lightstruck” by Sunya Mara ⭐️⭐️

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Tower of Swallows” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Dearly Devoted Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay ⭐️⭐️

“Clytemnestra” by Costanza Casati ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[home-ward]

Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Cooperhead

Read end of October, early November, 2024

More photos after review

Demon Copperhead was a gripping novel as soon as I picked it up. How does Kingsolver write so convincingly? Where did this hillbilly underdog come from? Did this reflect the true struggles of those from Appalachia? It seems Kingsolver has the experience and talent to pull this off.

I was in awe of this genuine book. Between the issues of addiction, foster care, and domestic abuse, I felt this character speaking through the pages to tell me a true story for many Americans.

Finally! October is through and November is here and I’ve finished Kingsolver’s epic novel.

But I’ll probably carry this story with me for quite a while.