FREE THE WHITE BONE PDF Barbara Gowdy | 336 pages | 03 Jun 2000 | St Martin's Press | 9780312264123 | English | New York, United States The White Bone | Quill and Quire Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The White Boneplease sign up. What themes does this book have? Vipneet The White Bone This book's main theme is The White Bone. See 1 question about The The White Bone Bone…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The White Bone. Jan 07, James The White Bone it did not like it Shelves: 1-fiction5-least-favorite-books. Yes, that's The White Bone, I've given out a 1 star rating I usually try to find something redeemable, but this one will be tough. And I mean no harm to the author, as her writing style was fine I suspect this was a brilliant idea gone 1 out of 5 stars to Barbara Gowdy 's novel, The White Bonea story about a family of elephants wandering around the safari. I suspect this was a brilliant idea gone far off track. To start, it's about a group of elephants wandering around the safari in Africa, focusing on young Mud. Everything from vicious attacks by lions to childbirth to starvation to fear, find their way into this book. And on the outskirts, it The White Bone like a wonderful story full of heartache, emotion and that quintessential journey. But somehow, other than a few spots where you get a bit sad, it feels half completed. When you're supposed to feel bad for finding a dead family The White Bone, remember that the book is seeing this thru the eyes of an elephant. The reaction feels like "oh, dead. I guess not. Now I feel silly The White Bone not knowing that. I couldn't decide whether this was a half satire, half sad look at the unfortunate problems animals face. But just when it started going down either of those paths, it was a complete reversal and I thought I was starting a new book. Same The White Bone. But as though I suddenly functioned with a lot less brain power. And I don't have that much to give, Barbara I rarely skim pages in a book. If I find myself skimming more than 3 or 4 pages, I put it down and pick it up a few days later, hoping it was just my mind at the time. I had a month to The White Bone this book, and I seriously couldn't focus. I read the whole thing, but there were times where I re-read the same page ten times to see if I could get anything out of it worth discussing. And I did. I learned that you can mess words up on a page and create something equal to scrambled eggs when all you wanted was a beautiful, sweet and delicious custard. Oh, how I love desserts. I'd The White Bone talk about them than this book anymore. And to be honest, I'm still confused The White Bone to what the white bone is or was A weapon to stab my eyes so I'm finished with the read. I'll take The White Bone was someone else's pick. And let me tell you what this book club meeting was like People often liked coming to my place because I cooked and had lots of food options -- and wine For this book club, it was at my house Every The White Bone I started, someone shoved food in my mouth or poured me more wine. They didn't want to listen to me go off on it No one else liked it either, so it was just that I was so vocal, it was ridiculous. I think it was a misprint. Something accidentally got thru and the publisher said "let's see if anyone notices OK, I've put you through enough pain. Don't read it. Please do not. And if you do, smack yourself for me. Twice, at least. Gowdy: Please don't take offense to my review. I'm sure your other books are good, as you have published quite a bit. I'd like to buy you dinner and understand how this entire thing came to fruition. And then find out your secret to getting this into people's hands. Off to find a lion Only fair. I love elephants. About Me For those new to me or my reviews I write A LOT. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note : All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators. View all 38 comments. Mar 26, Martin rated it it was amazing. It took a while for this chisel The White Bone a book to crack the nut of my head. I had to start it three times because the perspective was so strange, and grim. But on the third try I was enthralled. This book put me inside a different way of thinking. I treasured returning to this book and comprehending the revelations on nearly every page -- of the fact that there was a different way of observing things. So often I enjoy books that are brilliant executions of standard plots or formulas, like God Bless Y It The White Bone a while for this chisel of a book to crack the nut of my head. So often I enjoy books that are brilliant executions of standard plots or formulas, like God Bless You Mr. Rosewater or Presumed Innocent. But this fell into no formula or genre I can think The White Bone. The White Bone - The Globe and Mail Baigujing is a shapeshifting demonessand in her true form she is depicted as a skeleton. Baigujing was a demon who desired to eat the flesh of Tang Sanzang. 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She taunts Sun Wukong into attacking her by using his powers, and only he could hear her. Having a short-temper, he finally beats her with his staff and kills the demon, revealing that she was just a skeleton spirit. Sun Wukong shows this to Tang Sanzang, who The White Bone believes him, but Zhu Bajie convinces Tang Sanzang that Sun Wukong transformed The White Bone corpse into a skeleton to evade the Band-tightening spell. Tang Sanzang is angry at Sun Wukong The White Bone his reckless slaying and scolds him. He cuts his The White Bone with Sun Wukong and sends him away. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wu Cheng'en 's Journey to the West. A Supplement to the Journey to the West c. Monkey: Journey to the West play. Categories : Journey to the West characters Chinese The White Bone Fictional demons and devils Novel character stubs. Hidden categories: Articles containing Chinese-language text All stub articles. Namespaces Article The White Bone. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. This article about a fictional character from a novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. The White Bone - Wikipedia She comes bearing a vegetarian meal, claiming it to The White Bone food intended for her pious husband toiling in the fields The White Bone the other side of the mountain. But before she can kidnap the monk, Sun Wukong returns from picking peaches for his master and sees through the magic facade, seemingly killing the young girl with his magic staff. The innocent-looking food is then revealed to be bewitched frogs, toads, and maggots. Despite this, Zhu Bajie convinces their master that Monkey is trying to conceal the murder with magic, leading to the monk using the Tight-Fillet spell as punishment. Sun again sees through the disguise and seemingly The White Bone her with his staff. This again leads to his punishment with the Tight-Fillet spell.