Barbara Kingsolver

I forgot to mention her in my list of things that everyone likes except me.

I haven't even read anything by her. But I just know. I know.

People have been recommending her to me since first-year university. At that time, the big book was "The Bean Trees." More recently the big book was "The Poisonwood Bible."

Is it the ethnican design of her book covers? The titles? ("The Bean Trees" -- pisses me off.) Her author photo? Ms. Kingsolver, I am sorry. You're probably a perfectly nice person and you're right in having a huge fan base of my peers. You're probably very skilled and intelligent. It's just that I hate you.