Prodigal Summer

All done! It took me forever...which is not to say it wasn't an excellent book and really captivating writing. It was really good. But I just feel like I don't have as much time to read lately so it was more chopped up than I would have liked. This book felt like it would be really nice to just spend a few days with at the beach and read it all at once.

It was essentially 3 interconnected and simultaneous short stories, which encompass 1 summer in a small Kentucky town. It had a lot of very ambitious and grandiose themes - man's place in nature, the unintended consequences of hunting, different ways of viewing natural farming and the laws of nature. Oh, and God and relationships and all kinds of stuff. The characters were pretty interesting. I liked the story called Old Chestnuts, it followed a crotchety old widower who came off very elderly Stephen Colbert to me, which made me enjoy him. I did have a hard time w/ Deanna, the mountain woman who lives up in the wilderness. The only thing that bugged me was her hair. They explained her as having a long braid that came down to here knees. Just the idea of that kinda puts me off. Sorry, you have to have a knife up there or a basic pair of scissors... And the third story was about Lusa, this person who was of Polish and Palestinian descent. And she apparently had red hair. I think I'm a very visual reader and I just couldn't place this kind of look... hers was another moving story.

I really enjoyed this book overall! On to re-read the Red Tent for book club next week... I'm considering this practice school since I'm on a deadline. :) I'm looking forward to reading it though - I got all nostalgic bc it looks like I bought this book in Ireland! It still has the Waterstone's sticker on it. It was 11 Euros. :)