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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: Book Signing, May 4🚨

I’m honored to be a part of B&N Fairfax’s May 4th event for Star Wars Day! I’ll be signing copies of Meditations In Wonderland from 12-4pm. Save the date - I hope to see you there 🖤✨

Details: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062167727-0

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Alfalfa’s out here at the lake looking for copperheads, but not just any - Demon Copperhead, to be exact. The character at the center of @Barbara.Kingsolver’s latest novel that we reviewed for @bullybookclub!
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I preface my review by saying that Kingsolver is one of my favorite authors and everything she writes is five-star quality, this novel was no different. It’s right up there with Poisonwood Bible in my mind. I always get so attached to her characters I never want the book to end! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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In #DemonCopperhead, Kingsolver transports Dickens’ “David Copperfield” into the mountains of southern Appalachian, Lee County, VA, a county in my own state I hadn’t heard of before reading this but now feels like a place I could go on about for hours. I’m grateful to her for giving me a different perspective on my home state. Lee County makes provides the backdrop for a profoundly deep and sad and raw and inspiring story about generations of childhoods lost to the opioid epidemic, broken foster care systems, child labor and institutional poverty. Kingsolver treads these waters with empathy, compassion and anger that translates into her protagonist, Demon, who also may be the funniest first-person narrator I’ve met.
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So well done, Barbara. I think David Copperfield and Mark Twain would nod their heads in approval. In her words: “A good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it.”
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Taking them with me into 2023 🖤 (at The Purcellville Pub)
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Walking into year five of our marriage like… please be better than year four 😅😘 kidding but also this year showed me how grateful I am to have a husband who truly honors his vows every day, who has made so many sacrifices and puts our family first every chance he gets. Thanks for holding onto me so tight during it all. Four years and forever more 🖤
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He graced us with 95 years on earth, and for that I’m grateful. It was an honor to be Dick’s only granddaughter, and (so he admitted, anyway) favorite dance partner. If heaven looks like one big putting green, this guy is there. I’ll miss his subtle sense of humor, and plan on honoring his mandatory 5-o’clock “Martini Time” to celebrate his birthday every year. He spoiled me with the experience of a grandfather-granddaughter relationship as an adult, I’ll always cherish that. Cheers to you, Dick. You’ll be missed, remembered and always loved. “That’ll do it.” P.S., if you too want to live to 95, here was Dick’s advice: “Just do what the doctor tells you to do.”
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Spooky photo dump in honor of my favorite holiday 🖤🍂
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year, it’s the hap-happiest season of all 🎃🦇🍂
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32 ✨🖤 mountains, my boys, bubbles and books at the cabin. My libra soul is fed!
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Time for our annual birthday cookie munch photo in honor of this warthog and absolute ham turning 7 🐗🍪🎈
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