#christopher scotton

[margaretamelia]

Book Set in the Summer : the Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton

This was a wonderful read. I took this one slowly and deliberately. The topics were heavy and the writing was poignant. His similes had me re reading what I just had read….and gapping at how he managed to compare and relate certain things to one another….in an almost natural way.

This was a debut novel and you could tell in some respects, however, it felt genuine because of it. I really enjoyed watching Kevin’s (the main character) growing relationship with his grandfather, Pops. I enjoyed the multiple life lessons that Kevin was forced to learn through circumstances that befell him and that his Pops decided to subject him to.

Even when the author takes you years into the future (which usually never ends well) it is to continue to teach Kevin yet another life lesson about friendship and the fortune of our circumstances. Fabulous read and may even have a place in the greats of classic American literature.

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I guess I learned that even though most people are good, they can be talked into doing bad things by one or two jerks...And I guess, people sometimes need someone who can stand up and remind them that they are good people and they know what's right.

Christopher Scotton, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth

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“The Secret Wisdom of the Earth” by Christopher Scotton

[powells]

I reached the brim of the place and looked out over a landscape of total devastation. Miles of raw, broken hardrock where a tract of mountains had once been. Flat buttes of exposed grey slag with black coal seams at the bottom. Cairns of rubble with haul truck tracks crosshatched between them. A black lake filled with some obsidian ooze. At the far end, on a remnant hill, was a last frieze of orphan trees, standing proud and defiant as the mountain around them had been blown up, hauled off, and pushed into a hollow to level the land. It was my first look at a mountaintop removal mine and it made me want to throw up.

Christopher Scotton, Five Hundred Mountains Destroyed for a @*&%$! Allegory!

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I’ve thought about it often in the years since that first summer in Medgar, and I’m no closer to understanding how evil can be both numbingly complex and so astonishingly simple at once.

The Secret Wisdom Of The Earth by Christopher Scotton

[thewordofjeff]

Book Review - “The Secret Wisdom of the Earth”

Book Review – “The Secret Wisdom of the Earth”

Fourteen year old Kevin Gillooly and his mother retreat to her father’s Appalachian mountain home in eastern Kentucky following the horrific death of Kevin’s three year old brother. There, both mother and son heal under the wise and caring influence of “Pops”, while Kevin begins a friendship with local boy Buzzy Fink that will be tested as Kevin navigates the secrets and behaviors of a mountain…

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Narrated by an adult looking back on a life changing summer spent in Kentucky. Bullies, tragedy, and characters you'll love and despise. It will sweep you up and leave you more than satisfied.

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton

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For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imagination collecting in his head.”

Christopher Scotton, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth