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Title: A book to be read outdoors
Review: In "Prodigal Summer" Barbara Kingsolver gives us three very readable storylines that tangentially intersect. As a analytic reader, I immediately went about trying to figure out the connections between the characters and storylines.About a third of the way through the book, I spent a few hours outside reading on a nice day. That when it hit me that the power of this book isn't in the characters or the storylines, it is in the storytelling. I found myself more absorbed by the natural world around me. Suddenly I wanted to know the names of trees, and flowers, and even insects (thanks to Lusa).At the end, the storylines all wind up about step before where I saw them finishing, but that might just be a matter of taste. Some folks might like a little mystery and imagination to play a part in the ending of a good book.
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