[ebooktalk] Jeanette Winterson and Tiny Sunbirds.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 18:24:03 +0100
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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