Topic is Sleeping.
Ascendant (original poster member #38303) posted at 9:07 PM on Wednesday, October 26th, 2016
Anyone else read this? I read it last night, really thoroughly enjoyed it.
sewardak ( member #50617) posted at 12:17 AM on Thursday, October 27th, 2016
Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 1:02 AM on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
I read it and wasn't that impressed.
She packed up her potential and all she had learned and headed out to change a few things.
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 1:55 AM on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
I just purchased it for my Nook.
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
Threnody ( member #1558) posted at 4:16 AM on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
I'm reading it right now. I'm from that demographic, as well as from the Ozarks, and I went to high school in the town he lived in.
I'm involved in a FB group conversation about it right now, a group created specifically for other Appalachians to discuss what Vance got right and got wrong (lots of both). Most of the people in the group are like me -- we "got out." Our sometimes-guilt-sometimes-glee about this adds a layer of complexity to our conversation.
I study the farming in the Balkans and former Yugoslavia, and I visit Croatia, Slovakia, and border regions of Bosnia regularly to interview people and live among them as they work on their farms and orchards. It surprises people when I tell them that Vance's writing is very like my ethnographic field notes at times. The largest difference, in my opinion, has to do with the despair.
“If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Great love requires determination." ~ tryingtwo
"Don't try to win over the haters, you're not the jackass whisperer." ~ Brene Brown
phmh ( member #34146) posted at 5:04 AM on Sunday, December 18th, 2016
I'm number 40 of 200 or so for this one at the library. Hoping to get it soon!
Me: BW, divorced, now fabulous and happy!
Married: 11 years, no kids
Character is destiny
Topic is Sleeping.
