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Sue Monk Kidd

Autor(a) de The Secret Life of Bees

21+ Works 43,990 Membros 1,225 Críticas 55 Favorited

About the Author

Sue Monk Kidd was born in Sylvester, Georgia on August 12, 1948. She received a B.S. in nursing from Texas Christian University in 1970 and worked throughout her twenties as a registered nurse and college nursing instructor. She got her start in writing at the age of 30 when a personal essay she mostrar mais wrote for a writing class was published in Guideposts and reprinted in Reader's Digest. She went on to become a contributing editor at Guideposts and a freelancer. She primarily writes non-fiction, but is best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees, which won the 2004 Book Sense Paperback book of the Year. The book was made into a movie in 2008. Her other works include God's Joyful Surprise, When the Heart Waits, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Firstlight, and Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story. The Mermaid Chair won the 2005 Quill Award for General Fiction and was adapted into a television movie by Lifetime. Sue's title, The Invention of Wings, was selected as the Oprah Book Club 2.0 read in January, 2014. This title also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Sue Monk Kidd

Associated Works

New Seeds of Contemplation (1961) — Introdução, algumas edições2,198 exemplares
The Secret Life of Bees [2008 film] (2002) — Original book — 149 exemplares
Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging (2021) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Második esély (2005) 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1948-08-12
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Albany, Georgia, USA
Locais de residência
Sylvester, Georgia, USA
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Florida, USA
Educação
Texas Christian University(B.S. ∙ 1970)
Emory University
Ocupações
nurse(registered)
instructor(nursing)
writer-in-residence
novelist
memoirist
short story writer
Relações
Taylor, Ann Kidd (daughter)
Agente
William Morris Agency

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Sue Monk Kidd was born in Albany, Georgia and raised in the tiny town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that later deeply influenced the writing of her first novel. Her original career was as a nurse and nursing instructor. Her first published book was God's Joyful Surprise (1988), a spiritual memoir. In 1996, she published another memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, which had a groundbreaking effect within religious circles.
In her 40s, she decided to return to her earlier fiction writing, and enrolled in a graduate writing course at Emory University, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf and other writers' conferences. She wrote and published short stories in small literary journals for which she won several awards. Her first novel The Secret Life of Bees (2002) became a major hit, selling more than 6 million copies and spending more than 2½ years on the New York Times bestseller list. It was also published in 35 countries and is now widely used as a text in high school and college classrooms. The Secret Life of Bees was produced on stage in New York by The American Place Theater and adapted into a movie in 2008.
Sue's second novel, The Mermaid Chair (2005) sold nearly 2 million copies and was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. It has been translated into 24 languages and was produced as a television movie by Lifetime.

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Everyone else I know loved this book, and I really wanted to love it. But at best, I felt like it was "ok". Maybe it's because I'm reading it much later, in a very different political climate? I don't know. But I found myself not really enjoying it.
 
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ardaiel | 587 outras críticas | Mar 4, 2024 |
The only thing that keeps me from giving this book 5 stars is that I thought the ending felt rushed. Other than that, this book was wonderful. There's even quite a few little tidbits of wisdom from August throughout the pages that are worth remembering.
 
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thatnerd | 587 outras críticas | Mar 2, 2024 |
From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drug store to monastery retreats and rituals in the caves of Crete, Kid takes readers through the fear, anger, healing, and transformation of her reawakening.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | 19 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2024 |
When I complete the physical act of reading a book that I am not ready to mentally shut the cover on, I usually allow it to continue to simmer and bubble up in my thoughts for a period of time. A few hours, a day, sometimes longer. When that happens, I wait to start reading my next book. The Book of Longings has been simmering in me since I finished yesterday afternoon, and it is not finished. If I were not facing another week of long working hours, I would have let it simmer longer — caramelize — before I wrote a review.

The story is narrated by Ana, future, present, and widowed wife of Jesus, son of Joseph of Nazareth. As with all good historical fiction, the story is plausible because embroidered into the details are the familiar events of the New Testament stories, but also because it offers a plausible scenario in which she would not have appeared in the writings of the Apostles. Because of that latter element, I did not have to suspend disbelief to become immersed in Ana’s story, which I sometimes struggle with in a lesser work of historical fiction.

No spoilers here; just my general observations on the fine writing and compelling story. Ana certainly became a voice in my world in Sue Monk Kidd’s well-told tale.
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bschweiger | 56 outras críticas | Feb 4, 2024 |

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Obras
21
Also by
6
Membros
43,990
Popularidade
#379
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
1,225
ISBN
314
Línguas
22
Marcado como favorito
55

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