Who's reading Elemental Eve
I just finished your beautiful book. You’re such a great storyteller. I love the joy in the book. I like the way you script the dialogue and interaction between characters.
— Guy Ewing, Toronto. Guy is author of Hearing, and Answering with Music, and of Earth Becoming Sky.
Elemental Eve is a wonderful book. Barbara has an excellent use of language with boundless imagination and creativity. Add to this in depth character development and you have everything that you would want in a great read.
— Abby Ulmer, Regina. Abby worked many years with the Regina Women’s Community Centre and Sexual Assault Line.
The writing is exceptional – very distinctive and lyrical. The characters are well developed – interesting, realistic, well written.
— Brennan Kahan, Hemel Hempstead, Britain. Brennan is Principal Research Fellow, Medical Research Council.
The issues of our particular time are so beautifully entwined in each character’s story…There are so many points of departure for conversation about our own lives – about how we think and struggle to come to grips with our own circumstances.
— Valerie Crowther, Regina. Valerie loves playing the piano, gardening, and reading.
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Your writing is beautiful. Dozens of times, I found myself completely walking through a scene with one or another character. So eloquent and realistic. The characters are whole people, not just snapshots.
— Valerie Overend, Regina. Valerie is a forerunner in the women in trades movement; see Valerie Overend Fonds at University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections.
A complex and compelling book about generations of women from creation to the future. I’m still thinking about Elemental Eve.
— Jayne Whyte, Regina. Jayne is author of Pivot Points: a fragmented history of Mental Health in Saskatchewan.
A gorgeous work of art! Beautiful writing, memorable characters and relationships, and a compelling story. There is so much wisdom, passion, and insight in here.
— Claire Polster, Regina. Claire is Professor of Sociology, University of Regina.
From the opening sentence to the end of the final chapter, this engrossing and heartfelt story touched me deeply. It includes everything the intelligent reader requires: beautifully crafted writing, great characterization, descriptions that carried this reader across time and space, and a narrative that made it hard to put the book down. For anyone who has ever questioned their various roles and potentials in life, this romp through the timeline of women is told with humour and grace. The world needs more of this type of writing!
— Laura Burkhart, Montreal. Laura is the author of Venus Rising and Watermarks.