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Welcome to Operation Book Drop!
In honor of Newman University’s 75th Anniversary Year, We’re dropping copies of “What the Thunder Said” by Janet Peery for people to find.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
A lot of books I've read are interesting, fun to read--and totally forgettable. But I won't forget "What the Thunder Said." The reality of the setting and the truth of the characters have made a lasting impression. The book gets better each time I read it!
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I really loved Peery's use of language. Found myself re-reading passages for her clever analogies/ metaphors. Just lovely. I WILL re-read soon!
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I love this book!
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I thoroughly enjoyed the book. The wonderfully drawn characters brought to mind a favorite Maya Anjelou quote about the human condition and "about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive." Especially enjoyed the closure provided by the short stories in the last half of the book.
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"What the Thunder Said"!
Love that title! Anyone who knows T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" can't miss the impact of those four words.
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The most compelling book I've read in many years! It was painful at times and brutally honest as though it happened yesterday. I can't stop thinking about Peery's reference to the sin of pride. Aren't we all guilty of that?
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Couldn't help but focus on the places I knew that were mentioned in the book. Got the same reaction from works of Gaylord Dold and Tom Reamy. All in all a good read full of the dust and blood of the KS/Okla. area.
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Peery is beautifully adept at rendering character and description, and I found the structure of the book as a whole very engaging. As I moved through succeeding chapters, I was more and more eager to look for the connections with the preceding ones. I was particularly struck by how the story structure paralleled the ways the central characters moved away from each other in space and over time yet the threads of their lives continued to be interwoven through their own storytelling and that of others. This technique added great poignancy to, for example, one of the scenes towards the end of the book -- when two of the main characters (aunt Mackie and niece Georgette) are --by chance?-- in the same location, and it seems that neither of them is or even can be aware of their tie. This book was very satisfying and insightful read, and I very much look forward to Peery's campus visit and to reading more of her work.
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Is anyone else overwhelmed by all those references to Eliot's "The Wasteland"?Is the author trying to tell us that the Dirty 30s left Kansas and Oklahoma a wasteland? well, duh.
Or is she wanting us to see the moral wasteland that her characters traverse?
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