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A little trick about using Goodreads to obtain reviews of a book -- selecting the book will lead you to the Goodreads reviews, but to get to the reviews of a seller, then select the name of the seller. (I haven't tried that for all sellers, but I know it works quickly and easily for Amazon. As I recall, it may have taken another step or two for others I occasionally check.)
Wiki site for Ms. Kingsolver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_...Her authorized site: http://www.kingsolver.com/
I believe if you select listen here, you can hear Diane Rehm's interview of B.K. re: Flight Behavior: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/201...
(I didn't explore the site and to what it can lead you.)
If you search Google on: "Barbara Kingsolver interview Flight Behavior", you will receive several choices of interviews, including a YOU-tube selection (at least the day I tried).
Use this thread to identify and comment about characters in Flight Behavior. Avoid spoilers, but do provide useful relationship information as well as descriptions.
Use this thread to discuss and suggest the sources you found of value for obtaining the poetry of Wendell Berry. (Even though one book is highlighted here, none is intended to be actually specified as your source.)Add threads for specific sources if you like.
Here are a couple:
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
If you click on a book and then, in the description that follows, select a source at the bottom, you should be able to get that book's information, including reviews, if provided, at that source.
Use this thread for discussion about Wendell Berry, our selected poet for this 2014 Light to Read By retreat.
Use this thread for background information about Carson McCullers that can facilitate discussion of her Collected Stories.
Use this thread for information about Walker Percy that will be useful for discussion of The Moviegoer.
Use this thread for background information and comments about this collection of stories (Collected Stories).Avoid spoilers.
Use this thread for background information and comments about
The Moviegoer
prior to 2014 Light to Read By retreat. Avoid spoilers -- i.e., comments about the plot or characters that might "spoil" the read for those who still reading the book.
Use this thread for background information and comments on
Flight Behavior
prior to the 2014 Light to Read By retreat.Avoid spoilers -- i.e., comments about the plot or characters that might "spoil" the read for those who still reading the book.
Use this thread for information about Barbara Kingsolver, especially that which will enhance discussion of the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlZA-F...Here is a short video on Druze farmers harvesting apples.
Here are some sites on the Druze that I have not vetted for accuracy or even reasonableness:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/j...
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Joshua....
http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-...
Use this thread for information about the historical figures and the various groups referred to in House of Stone.
A character list, no promise it is complete:Amory Blaine
Rosalind Connage
Beatrice Blaine
Monsignor Darcy
Dawson Ryder
Thomas Park D'Invilliers
Dick Humbird
Burne Holiday
Kerry Holiday
Alec Connage
Jesse Ferrenby
Mr. Ferrenby
Isabelle Borges
Clara Page
Eleanor Savage
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...
Here is the Crusader fortress, Beaufort Castle, in 2005. The wiki article here shows an earlier view as well as how close this lies to Marjeyoun and how this area lies against the Israeli border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort...
http://www.marjeyoun.net/ON-Khiyam.html
Called Khiyam here, my guess is this is the Khiam mentioned with Blatt on p. 37 as Shiite villages. On p. 70, they are characterized as attacking and looting the Serail.
I can imagine the above as the Dr. Khairalla's garden or this as one of the plants Anthony bought on their trips to the nursery:
Other bucolic views: http://www.marjeyoun.net/200810-Skaf....
Statue of St. George with townspeople.
(See approx. pp. 258-9 of text for the patron saint of the Marjayoun Church.)
More here: http://www.marjeyoun.net/St-Georges.html
