#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

[pefkaes]

03.02.2024 // learning to be alone with my thoughts.

progress through Demon Copperhead has been slow but so far, I've been enjoying it immensely (no surprises there because Kingsolver is a brilliant writer).

[derangedrhythms]

[…] the moon-dead dark.

Barbara Kingsolver, from 'Demon Copperhead'

[foolsgender]

gotta go outside and look at some moss now tbh

[odekirk]

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”

—Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

[peanuts-n-jam-sandwich]

I finished reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver the other day. This one is gonna sit with me for a while. I have a lot of thoughts about it. Personally I adored it and I feel it will live through the test of time. It manages to be modern but not annoyingly so and it's messages are sharp but not so much that it isolates the characters from the reader. Each and every character can be seen as a part of various metaphors but are still thought out and realistic characters. I found myself forgetting that Damon and Angus and Maggot are characters in a book. The ending left me confused in the best ways and the story in its entirety is so multifaceted that it feels like truth.

In my opinion, this book is a classic and we will all be better for it.

[averagemrfox]

My balcony is cleaned up and the plants are planted so I have no excuse not to read out here anymore

[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

[couldtransitionsaveher]

MATTHEW "MAGGOT" PEGGOT from DEMON COPPERHEAD

(No pictures exist)

JUSTIFICATION:

"feats of transgenderism: being named maggot. clocked as queer at age 10. plays pretend as storm from x men. super defensive of his masculinity as a kid. plays dress up with his girl cousin’s clothes and make up. shoplifts nail polish and eyeliner because he’s self conscious about buying it. fights with his family about cutting his hair. she’s a mall goth from rural virginia in the late 90s and i she needs like one transgender message board or real life trans person and that egg is cracked." - @abstracted-psychopomp

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[annacswenson]

"Back in the car, pointed west, I tried to think of one place on the planet of earth where I'd feel happy to be. Came up bust. Then tried to settle on one place I could stand to be. Nothing again. No house, or vehicle, or yard, or pasture came to mind. No place. A guy could take this to mean he ought to be dead."

—Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver

[llovelymoonn]

barbara kingsolver demon cooperhead

kofi

[pefkaes]

15.02.2023 // Highly recommend Demon Copperhead, even though readers might find the writing tedious in places. I just want to hug all the characters, especially because I know people who struggle with addiction or fear falling off the edge (I am the latter). I also hope that I can become half the woman that June is.

Also learned quite a bit about Southern Appalachian history and society.

[derangedrhythms]

Come on up, said the moon.

Barbara Kingsolver, from 'Demon Copperhead'

[sometimesiwastetimehere]

[fairy-peculiar]

It hit me pretty hard. How there’s no kind of sad in this world that will stop it turning. People will keep on wanting what they want and you’re on your own.

Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver

[hesperleveret]

“Good people, bad people, what does that even mean? Get down to the rock and the hard place, and we’re all just soft flesh and the weapon at hand.”

- Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.

Fuck, this one is going to be living in my head rent-free.