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Medicine River
Medicine River | Thomas King
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When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother's funeral. He doesn't count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town's only Native photographer. Somehow, that's exactly what happens. Through Will's gentle and humorous narrative, we come to know Medicine River, a small Albertan town bordering a Blackfoot reserve. And we meet its people: the basketball team; Louise Heavyman and her daughter, South Wing; Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor; Joe Bigbear, Harlen's world-travelling, storytelling brother; Bertha Morley, who has a short fling with a Calgary dating service; and David Plume, who went to Wounded Knee. At the centre of it all is Harlen, advising and pestering, annoying and entertaining, gossiping and benevolently interfering in the lives of his friends and neighbours.
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xicanti
Medicine River | Thomas King
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1. I‘m good with either, but I‘ve read way more single narrators.

2. It‘s tough to choose; probably January LaVoy? Katherine Kellgren was also amazing, and Bahni Turpin‘s wonderful. I‘ve got a soft spot for Will Patton, too.

3. Shout out to narrator Wesley French, who knows how to SUGGEST a character‘s shouting instead of actually blasting the listener‘s eardrums out. Volume modulation is the most important thing, people!

#sundayfunday

BookmarkTavern I don‘t think I‘ve listened to LaVoy before! I‘ll have to look her up! Thanks for sharing! 4y
xicanti @ozma.of.oz I first encountered her with BLOODLINE by Claudia Gray. She made it feel like a full cast production even though it was just her. 4y
BookmarkTavern She reads Bloodline?! Well, now I have to look her up! 😆 4y
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rjsthumbelina @ozma.of.oz @xicanti LaVoy also voices the diviners series and does a fantastic job with all the different characters! 4y
BookmarkTavern Ah! Libba Bray! Love her. Thank you for adding a bunch of new books to my TBR stack! 😆 4y
xicanti @rjsthumbelina @ozma.of.oz that was my most recent experience with her. I was especially impressed with how she sings well for the characters who can sing and badly for the ones who can‘t. 4y
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JazzFeathers
Medicine River | Thomas King
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#ReadingResolutions #HumorousBooks

More than a humorous book, this is a book written with humour.
It's a collection of stories, all mostly self-conteined, all mixing present with past, but connected by characters, settore GSM and situations that basically turn them onto a novel.
And everywhere, together with feeling g and thoughtness, there's a lot of wanting to have fun.

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JazzFeathers
Medicine River | Thomas King
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#7favesin7days 2/7 📚📖❤

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JazzFeathers
Medicine River | Thomas King
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#AndItsAugust #TwoWordsTitles

I haven't read Storm Front yet.
I loved both the other two.
Medicina River is a collection of lovely interconnected stories that finally form an overarvin story set in an Indian reservation.
Ghost King is David Gemmell's take at King Arthur story

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JazzFeathers
Medicine River | Thomas King
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#JuneBookBugs #IndigenousAuthors
#NativeBooks

Well... this was easy 😆

This is only a small part of my collection of Native American authors. I really like their kind of storytelling. I was lucky enough to hear a Tlingit storytelling tell the story of the trickster Craw once, and l realised then the style of Native authors sounds a lot like that. The same rhythm, the same sentenze construction. It was fascinating.

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JazzFeathers
Medicine River | Thomas King
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#MayBookFlowers
This is a collection of interwoven short stories happening on the Canadian Madicine River reserve. Every story has a section regarding the past and a section regarding the present. The relation between the two sections creats a deeper, sharper, morecomplez #truths
Took a bit getting into it, but then the setting and above all the characters won me over
#NativeBooks

http://theoldshelter.com/thursday-quotable-medicine-river/

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