[ebooktalk] Re: Tiny Sunbirds.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:48:36 +0100
It's a while since I read it now and must admit I can't remember that bit. I
wonder if this is her only novel. Will have to look into it.
Shell.
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From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2013 9:15 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Tiny Sunbirds.
> 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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