[ebooktalk] Re: Tiny Sunbirds.
- From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 21:15:37 +0100
I liked the ending of the book itself, Shell, but thought the epilogue got a
bit sentimental, with the little girl asking her mum to tell her the story.
Trish.
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From: Shell
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 6:24 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Jeanette Winterson and Tiny Sunbirds.
Hi Trish,
I'm glad you enjoyed Tiny Sunbirds. I didn't fancy reading it at all really,
but once I got started I couldn't put it down. I really loved the ending to,
it just fitted so well. It shows you just how lucky we are with all our modern
conveniences. It must have been very hard to go from an air conditioned
apartment in the city to the rural existance of the Grandma's home. I thought
it was one of the best books I read last year.
I haven't read any Jeanette Winterson, but I have heard a lot about this book
and quite fancied reading it myself.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 1:19 PM
To: "Ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] "Tiny Sunbirds Far Away"
> A huge thank you to Shell for recommending this book and for sending it. I
thought "Purple Hibiscus" was good, which it is, but "Tiny Sunbirds" equals, if
not outclasses it, for me, anyway. The characters are well-drawn, though not
predictable, and the family set-up is interesting. It also deals with the
issue of (AS it is termed in the book) "Girl cutting". The writer conveys the
horror experienced by her main character (A twelve-year-old girl) at moving
from a modern house in Lagos to a compound in a poor part of Nigeria, where
there is no electricity, no running water, and food is scarce, and develops the
story so that the reader can see how she gradually comesat first to accept her
situation, and eventually to love her new home. The book also manages to be
funny in parts. One of the best books I've read this year!
>
> Trish.
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